98 — Rachin Ravindra powers Welsh Fire to win over MI London
Rachin Ravindra made 98 off 44 balls with seven sixes as Welsh Fire beat MI London by 15 runs in The Hundred.
Rachin Ravindra came within two runs of a century, smashing 98 off 44 balls with seven sixes to lift Welsh Fire past MI London. The knock set a total the hosts couldn't chase — Lockie Ferguson's four wickets shut the door on the way down, and Welsh Fire won by 15.
It's a second straight win for Fire, and Ravindra's brutal hitting in the middle overs is why he's been picked for the IPL squad. Boundaries dominated the match, and when a batter can turn a boundary into a six the way Ravindra did here, the maths shifts fast. His strike rate in this format isn't theoretical anymore — it's match-winning.
CricHubb Take
What matters isn't that Ravindra nearly got a hundred — it's that he's doing it consistently now. IPL teams already knew he could bat. What they're seeing here is rhythm. If he carries this aggression into the league season, he won't need to wait for the middle order to build an innings around.