Deepti Sharma kept a calm head to take Sunrisers Leeds past Southern Brave and into Sunday's Hundred final, chasing down a low target at The Oval. Phoebe Litchfield and Annabel Sutherland, two young Australians, scored 21 runs between them, but Deepti and Lauren Winfield-Hill's experience got them home with 11 balls left. Although Sunrisers have changed their name, kit color, captain, coach, and most of their team since Northern Superchargers won the final last year, they are theoretically the champions. They are on a five-match winning streak after a slow start to the Hundred, and their deep batting line-up got them over the line despite an early wobble in their chase. After being asked to bat first, Brave's score of 114 for 7 always felt light. Sunrisers' best bowler was 22-year-old legspinner Hannah Baker. Baker said she had "never been so nervous in my entire life" watching the run chase from the dugout but with Jess Jonassen coming in as low as No. 7, Sunrisers always had enough resources to get across the line. Litchfield and Sutherland are the Hundred's highest run-scorers this season, but were out cheaply as Sunrisers crept to 54 for 3 off 47 balls. Sutherland misjudged Sarah Glenn to extra cover, where Sophie Molineux took an excellent catch while running back, and Litchfield hit one early boundary but lost her leg stump while trying to charge Issy Wong. But Winfield-Hill - who called The Oval home in the first five seasons of the Hundred - anchored the chase expertly with a run-a-ball 37. She started slowly before running down and launching Molineux just over Lauren Bell's head at mid-off, and took the equation from 30 off 29 to 22 off 27 with consecutive boundaries off Tilly Corteen-Coleman. She lost her leg stump to Wong when she failed to get Sunrisers over the line, and Dani Gibson fell first-ball in an effort to carry Wong over the line. But Jonassen survived the hat-trick ball, watched Deepti strike two leg-side boundaries, and then belted the winning boundary through the off side to take them home. Deepti only batted twice in the group stage, but vindicated the decision to promote her to No. 5 in a knockout game. "I was keeping it very simple," she said, before paying tribute to the team's environment under head coach Adi Birrell. "I like the way they are creating the environment, especially with Adi," she added. "He's always funny, and doesn't put pressure on us." Brave arrived at The Oval on a three-match losing streak after starting the season with five consecutive wins, and it showed in their approach with the bat. They have only made it to 130 once this season, and they lost their reliable Jemimah Rodrigues to a hamstring injury near the end of the group stages. Lizelle Lee made a fast start, successfully overturning an lbw decision off Jonassen and hitting the only six of the innings off Kate Cross as she reached 27 off 20 in the powerplay. But she was smartly stumped by Winfield-Hill when she dragged her back foot out of her crease, and was the only Brave batter to score a strike rate above 120 (min. five balls). When Laura Wolvaardt and Maia Bouchier fell in quick succession, Molineux and Charli Knott batted like players who knew there was precious little batting to follow. For the fourth wicket, they added 33 in 29 balls, but even three late front-foot no balls couldn't get them to 120. Sutherland took two in two at the death when she had Jodi Grewcock caught at deep midwicket and Naomi Dattani miscuing to short fine leg, but Gibson could not cling onto a tough chance at deep midwicket off the hat-trick ball. When England fielded a second-string team in Ireland at the end of 2024, Baker earned two ODI caps. However, he may soon be considered for a first-choice squad. She has outperformed Glenn, the other main English legspinner, in the Hundred, and is Sunrisers' second-highest wicket-taker leading into Sunday's final. She was outstanding in the Eliminator, keeping the stumps in play the entire time and allowing only 13 runs from her 20 balls, fittingly a baker's dozen. She had Lee stumped early in her spell and held her nerve when Knott jumped across her stumps on the sweep, sticking to a very straight line to knock back off stump. Lee has struggled behind the stumps all season, and the contrast between her and the excellent Winfield-Hill was emblematic of the two teams' precision. Sunrisers conceded only three extras - all front-foot no-balls - compared to Brave's 18, which included eight wides and two sets of four byes.