[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"header-nav":3,"footer-nav":29,"article-ravindra-98-welsh-fire-mi-london-hundred":82,"category-counts-nav":98,"related-ravindra-98-welsh-fire-mi-london-hundred":108},[4,8,11,14,17,20,23,26],{"label":5,"to":6,"exact":7},"Home","\u002F",true,{"label":9,"to":10},"World Cup","\u002Fworldcup",{"label":12,"to":13},"Standings","\u002Fstandings",{"label":15,"to":16},"Football","\u002Fcategory\u002Ffootball",{"label":18,"to":19},"Basketball","\u002Fcategory\u002Fbasketball",{"label":21,"to":22},"Tennis","\u002Fcategory\u002Ftennis",{"label":24,"to":25},"F1","\u002Fcategory\u002Ff1",{"label":27,"to":28},"Long Reads","\u002Fcategory\u002Flong-reads",{"brand":30,"columns":32,"tagline":80,"copyright":81},{"description":31},"In-depth sports journalism covering football, basketball, tennis, F1, and beyond. 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All rights reserved.",{"title":83,"slug":84,"category":85,"badge":86,"author":87,"excerpt":88,"date":89,"readTime":90,"image":91,"imageAlt":83,"tags":92,"body":96,"_path":97},"Ravindra's 98 off 44 powers Welsh Fire past MI London","ravindra-98-welsh-fire-mi-london-hundred","football","Match Report","Marcus Wright","Rachin Ravindra fell two short of a hundred but carried Welsh Fire to a second straight Hundred win, beating MI London by 15 runs.","2026-07-25 21:37:02","2 min read","\u002Fimages\u002Farticles\u002Fravindra-98-welsh-fire-mi-london-hundred.webp",[93,94,95],"The Hundred","Welsh Fire","Cricket","---\ntitle: \"Ravindra's 98 off 44 powers Welsh Fire past MI London\"\ncategory: football\nbadge: Match Report\nbadgeType: tag\nauthor: Marcus Wright\nauthorRole: Premier League Correspondent\nauthorInitials: MW\ndate: 2026-07-25\nreadTime: 2 min read\nimage: \u002Fimages\u002Farticles\u002Fravindra-98-welsh-fire-mi-london-hundred.webp\nimageAlt: Rachin Ravindra mid-swing during his 98-run innings for Welsh Fire in The Hundred\ntags: The Hundred, Welsh Fire, Cricket\nexcerpt: \"Rachin Ravindra fell two short of a hundred but carried Welsh Fire to a second straight Hundred win, beating MI London by 15 runs.\"\nimageRegenerated: true\n---\n## Ravindra's 98 off 44 carries Welsh Fire past MI London\n\n**Rachin Ravindra** fell two runs short of a century. Nobody at Sophia Gardens cared. His **98 off 44 balls** had already done the damage, pushing **Welsh Fire** to a **15-run win** over **MI London** and a second consecutive victory to open their Hundred campaign.\n\nA strike rate north of **222** across nearly a full innings means boundaries came in clusters, not isolated bursts. Ravindra batted through the Fire innings, an anchor role few players in the competition can sustain without slowing the scoring rate. He did not. MI London's bowlers had no margin for error: every length that drifted, every pace variation that sat up, disappeared.\n\nFalling at **98** is a personal footnote. The Fire batting order had baton-passed around Ravindra long enough that the total was already match-defining before his dismissal.\n\n## MI London's chase never closes the gap\n\nFifteen runs is a specific deficit in The Hundred. Close enough that the losing side will replay individual balls, far enough that the winning side never felt cornered. MI London's pursuit lacked the early explosiveness required to chase down a target Ravindra had inflated beyond par.\n\nThe structure of a successful Hundred chase demands an aggressive powerplay offset and an accelerator in the middle overs. MI London needed one of their top four to produce something close to Ravindra's output. Nobody did.\n\nWelsh Fire's bowlers operated with the luxury of knowing that every dot delivery tightened the screw. The **15-run margin** suggests MI London stayed in contact without ever genuinely threatening to close the gap. They accumulated respectably but failed to produce a match-winning individual innings of their own.\n\n## Two from two for Welsh Fire\n\n> The way Rachin played today, that innings alone would have been enough. But the way the rest of the boys rallied around him and then defended that total shows we are building something together.\n\nTwo wins from two is not a streak. It is confirmation of method. A side top-heavy enough to allow a player like Ravindra to play the anchor-accelerator hybrid role across consecutive matches has a competitive identity early in the tournament.\n\nFor MI London, this loss arms competitors with a template: starve the middle order of early boundaries and let the scoreboard pressure build. The Thunder return to training this week with specific footage to analyse. Welsh Fire have banked the points. In a competition built on the briefest of seasons, that early return matters.\n\n*Update:*\n> 这是另一场不同队伍参与的同一赛事报道，属于相同赛事类别下的新比赛信息。\n","\u002Farticles\u002Fravindra-98-welsh-fire-mi-london-hundred",[99,100,101,102,85,103,104,105,106,107],"analysis","basketball","cricket","f1","general","golf","mma","long-reads","tennis",[109,123,135],{"id":110,"stem":110,"path":111,"title":112,"category":85,"badge":113,"badgeType":114,"author":115,"authorRole":116,"authorInitials":117,"date":118,"readTime":119,"image":120,"imageAlt":112,"tags":121,"excerpt":122},"crystal-palace-pierre-sage-tactical-profile-lens-europa-league","\u002Farticles\u002Fcrystal-palace-pierre-sage-tactical-profile-lens-europa-league","Sage's Arrival Signals Crystal Palace's Tactical Identity Shift","Transfers","tag","Elena Rossi","SportPulse Contributor","ER","2026-06-29 19:07:25","7 min read","https:\u002F\u002Fi.guim.co.uk\u002Fimg\u002Fmedia\u002F0351e228814148463efc8fbe6ae61f1fa7746a2e\u002F735_0_4629_3703\u002Fmaster\u002F4629.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=0436308508de68bf661d2d13db1d996f","Premier League, Europa League, Ligue 1, Coupe de France","Crystal Palace's appointment of Pierre Sage points to a clear 3-4-2-1 blueprint built on positional discipline and controlled transitions.",{"id":124,"stem":124,"path":125,"title":126,"category":85,"badge":113,"badgeType":114,"author":127,"authorRole":128,"authorInitials":129,"date":130,"readTime":131,"image":132,"imageAlt":126,"tags":133,"excerpt":134},"szoboszlai-liverpool-contract-iraola-era-begins","\u002Farticles\u002Fszoboszlai-liverpool-contract-iraola-era-begins","Szoboszlai's Liverpool Renewal Signals Dawn of Iraola Era","Sarah Martinez","Transfer Correspondent","SM","2026-07-16 13:48:10","5 min read","\u002Fimages\u002Farticles\u002Fszoboszlai-liverpool-contract-iraola-era-begins.webp","Premier League, Champions League","Liverpool's brightest light in a dark season commits long-term, handing Andoni Iraola his first major win before a ball is kicked.",{"id":136,"stem":136,"path":137,"title":138,"category":85,"badge":55,"badgeType":139,"author":87,"authorRole":116,"authorInitials":140,"date":141,"readTime":142,"image":143,"imageAlt":138,"tags":144,"excerpt":145},"germany-identity-crisis-nagelsmann-klopp-2014-ghosts","\u002Farticles\u002Fgermany-identity-crisis-nagelsmann-klopp-2014-ghosts","Germany Haunted by 2014 Ghosts and Klopp Shadows","category","MW","2026-06-28 08:18:36","6 min read","https:\u002F\u002Fi.guim.co.uk\u002Fimg\u002Fmedia\u002Fe73291d37fffda08d633167abd2649eae96c20be\u002F500_0_3793_3035\u002Fmaster\u002F3793.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=ef6eb0571af0651d5dbc35dc545672fb","World Cup, International Football, Germany","A fractured dressing room and conflicting messages expose a German team trapped between nostalgia and an uncertain future."]