The Hundred, Women: London Spirit vs Birmingham Phoenix

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Market context

London Spirit Women are playing Birmingham Phoenix Women at Lord’s in the final stretch of the 2026 Hundred group stage, and the market is priced at a **100% YES** because the match has already been scheduled and is effectively a completed event for settlement purposes.[3][12] For a programmatic trader, this is the kind of market you would normally treat as a simple event-confirmation task: once the fixture exists in the official or live score feed, the main checks are whether it is actually played, whether a winner is recorded, and whether any abandonment, walkover or altered ruling still produces an official winner under the settlement rules.[3][12]

The historical frame is straightforward: London Spirit have had the upper hand in this pairing, beating Phoenix by 88 runs in 2025, 20 runs in 2024, and again by 32 runs in the 2026 match report already published by Cricinfo.[1][2][4] Phoenix did edge out Welsh Fire earlier in this season, but their broader record in recent Hundred seasons has been weaker than Spirit’s, and these head-to-head results show that the fixture has repeatedly produced an ordinary on-field winner rather than a no-result.[5][8][16] In market terms, that means the probability is being driven less by competition balance and more by the fact that the underlying event has already resolved in the cricket data layer.[1][2]

For a hands-on workflow, the catalysts to watch are the official fixture status, the live scorecard, and any competition bulletin on abandoned play, since those are the only practical dependencies left for settlement.[3][11] Cricbuzz lists the match at Lord’s with Phoenix winning the toss and bowling, which is the sort of pre-match metadata that bots can ingest to verify the event state before settlement windows close.[3] If your tooling monitors feeds for edge cases, the key logic is simple: any result, including a DLS/DRS outcome, over-rate penalty, or walkover that awards a winner, should still settle as YES under the stated rules.[12]

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Methodology

This page reviews The Hundred, Women: 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.

Resolution & payout

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