The Hundred: London Spirit vs Birmingham Phoenix

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Market context

London Spirit against Birmingham Phoenix is a finished on-field result market for the August 9 Lord’s fixture, so the current 100% crowd-implied YES price is best read as a post-match settlement view rather than a live forecast. In the men’s Hundred, Spirit won this exact 2026 meeting by seven wickets after making 166 for 3 and chasing 162 for 4, with Liam Livingstone and Dewald Brevis driving the reply; ESPN’s ball-by-ball record confirms the chase completed with 18 balls remaining.[3][8]

For traders running rules-based tooling, the main lesson is that this market should usually resolve on the official scorecard, including ordinary outcomes caused by DLS/DRS, penalties, or an awarded result, because the contract treats those as wins. Historical comparables between these sides show the fixture can swing sharply by venue and season: Birmingham Phoenix beat Spirit by seven wickets in 2025 at Edgbaston, while Spirit also beat Phoenix in low-scoring and moderate-scoring Lord’s contests in prior seasons.[4][6][10]

The practical catalysts are procedural rather than performance-based: the toss, any rain interruption, and the final scorecard posted by the competition or major scorewire feeds. BBC and Cricbuzz both carried live coverage and toss information for this fixture, which is the kind of data a bot or conditional-order setup would watch to confirm settlement once the match is complete.[1][15]

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Methodology

This page reviews The Hundred: London Spirit vs Birmingham Phoenix across five venues. The live probability is the Polymarket mid-price, sourced directly from the on-chain Polygon order book; the comparison columns benchmark each venue on fee structure, KYC, settlement currency and payment rails. Every CTA routes to Polymarket Review UK, which mirrors the Polymarket order book at 0% fees.

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