The Women’s Hundred trophy will have a new home after London Spirit secured a surprise eight-wicket win over Oval Invincibles in Saturday’s Eliminator semi-final.

They advance to Sunday’s final against Welsh Fire at Lord’s. Fire reached the Eliminator tournament in 2023, but neither they nor Spirit have previously reached the final in three previous editions of the tournament.

Australian Georgia Redmayne, who scored both her half-century and the decisive runs for Spirit with a four-run cover drive, said: “Playing a home final at Lord’s will be incredible.”

Two-time winners and in front of a raucous home crowd of a record 15,823, the Invincibles began the day as clear favourites. But after being sent in to bat by Spirit, they scored just 113. Set batters Alice Capsey and Marizanne Kapp fell on the 74th and 77th balls, while Spirit took five wickets in the last 14 deliveries.

In reply, Kapp had Meg Lanning caught behind on 28th ball, but a 74-run partnership from 51 balls between Redmayne and Heather Knight took Spirit home with a nine-ball lead.

Knight was initially a supporting player but finished unbeaten on 36 off 23 balls, beating Mady Villiers over the top in an innings of six runs, which will have particularly pleased England coach Jon Lewis six weeks before the T20 World Cup.

With Redmayne and Knight both failing to catch two balls each, Invincibles captain Lauren Winfield-Hill – who brought Redmayne down on 19 while batting at the stumps – blamed the loss on sloppy fielding under pressure. “In a close game where few points are scored, that’s costly.”

Redmayne would also have been lbw to Ryana MacDonald-Gay in the 46th minute if the Invincibles could have appealed the decision, but they had already cleared their only review against Knight.

The match was all but won, but Invincibles’ 19-year-old left-arm spinner Sophia Smale was forced off the court three balls before the end of her third set after hitting her head while catching the ball. “Her head is OK, but her heart is broken,” Winfield-Hill said.

Capsey – bowling in the competition for the second time this year – was forced to take the lead and was unable to stem the flow of runs from Knight and Redmayne.

Earlier, her 45-run partnership with Kapp had looked set to take the game away from new finalists London Spirit, but the pair were eliminated in quick succession.

Kapp sent a catch to Lanning in the deep, while Capsey finally offered her wicket to Dani Gibson on a silver platter, feeling a long ball a mile outside the off-stump and toeing it to the keeper, but not before scoring 30 more runs to finish as the Invincibles’ top scorer.

Gibson, playing with a heavily bandaged knee, had already put up a 16-run opening set that included three wides and also blew two chances offered by Capsey at deep midwicket. She was also punished by Laura Harris, who let out the frustrations of three weeks on the sidelines as overseas representative for Chamari Athapaththu with a seven-ball 16-run cameo, including a huge six against the England seamer at deep midwicket.

But Spirit turned the tide with the last ten balls and Gibson finally managed to take two redeeming catches to catapult her team into the first final of the Women’s Hundred.