Stoinis leads the way as Brave subdue Phoenix's fire

It looked below par and England's Jamie Smith was one of four Brave batters to register a single-figure score, but Rehan Ahmed's excellent figures of 3-35 failed to inspire Phoenix to victory on the south coast.

Phoenix opener Will Smeed made a fine start with 35 and Ahmed backed him up with 16, but the visitors collapsed to 6-89.

Stoinis's 2-16 and scalps for Jofra Archer and Adil Rashid slowed down Phoenix before Luke Wood provided an explosive finish with two wickets at the death to restrict the away franchise to 9-116.

Phoenix's two Aussies, Ben Dwarshuis and Mitch Owen, were unable to get out of single figures. Dwarshuis had earlier taken 2-18