{"id":476592,"date":"2026-03-15T07:55:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T07:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/476592\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T07:55:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T07:55:08","slug":"the-hundred-could-2026-be-the-year-when-welsh-fire-deliver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/476592\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hundred: Could 2026 be the year when Welsh Fire deliver?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Welsh Fire’s women have a better track record in The Hundred than the men. <\/p>\n

They finished third in 2023 and lost the final in 2024 having finished top of the group stage standings.<\/p>\n

The men, meanwhile, have never progressed to the play-offs, with a fourth-place finish in 2023 the only time they finished in the top half of the standings.<\/p>\n

With both teams finishing bottom of their respective tables last season, perhaps a full-scale rebuild was inevitable.<\/p>\n

Only Tom Kohler-Cadmore and Ben Kellaway return for the men, while Chris Woakes<\/a> will hope for better luck with Welsh Fire this time around having signed up for 2025 only to be replaced by New Zealand’s Matt Henry after suffering an injury.<\/p>\n

As for the women, wicket-keeper Sarah Bryce is the lone survivor from last year’s squad having been with the team since 2022.<\/p>\n

All-rounder Fi Morris, a 2022 squad member, has joined for the 2026 season and is the only other player in the squad who has played for the franchise previously.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Welsh Fire’s women have a better track record in The Hundred than the men. They finished third in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":476593,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-476592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=476592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/476593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}