{"id":703128,"date":"2026-07-21T09:46:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T09:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/703128\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T09:46:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T09:46:11","slug":"the-hundred-phil-salts-path-home-from-barbados-to-welsh-fire-captain-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/703128\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hundred: Phil Salt’s path home from Barbados to Welsh Fire captain"},"content":{"rendered":"

Top run-scorer, twice a finalist: Salt certainly has pedigree in The Hundred.<\/p>\n

The Welshman reached the final with Manchester Originals in 2022 and 2023 but believes he can go one step further by sparking a dormant Welsh Fire into life.<\/p>\n

The Cardiff-based team are the worst-performing franchise in the tournament’s short history, with both the men’s and women’s teams finishing rock bottom last year.<\/p>\n

Neither side has won the tournament and the men are yet to reach the play-offs, but with tech billionaire Sanjay Govil buying a 50% share of the team for \u00a340m<\/a> there is hope that this year could be different.<\/p>\n

“Historically, Welsh Fire haven’t done that well, they haven’t given fans much to get excited about, but I see this as a good opportunity to change things. It excites me,” said Salt.<\/p>\n

Salt said the Sophia Gardens pitch, along with dressing room music from indie-rock band Blossoms, should be conducive to high run-scoring.<\/p>\n

Two other 2026 recruits – Glamorgan pair Ben Kellaway and Asa Tribe – will bring that local knowledge and a Welsh heartbeat to the team.<\/p>\n

“We’ve got so much experience in the dressing room,” said Salt.<\/p>\n

“There’s been a lot of talk about the wicket – it looks like a really good place to play cricket when you look at the Glamorgan scores this season.<\/p>\n

“We’ve got to start fast, and play lots of front-foot, aggressive cricket.<\/p>\n

“Can we win the competition? Definitely. I don’t see why not.”<\/p>\n

Phil Salt was speaking to BBC Sport as part of a Compare the Market event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Top run-scorer, twice a finalist: Salt certainly has pedigree in The Hundred. The Welshman reached the final with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":703075,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-703128","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\/703128","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=703128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703128\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/703075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=703128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=703128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=703128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}