Birmingham Phoenix Women go into the bottom of the table; Sunrisers Leeds Women arrive on a five-wicket win behind Annabel Sutherland's 37 off 21. Here's how to build the fantasy side around the 100-ball format, the Edgbaston surface and a Leeds evening that nudges 9°C with the quicks holding the conditions.
· Trust11 News Desk · Pre-match fantasy brief
Birmingham Phoenix Women meet Sunrisers Leeds Women at Edgbaston on 7 August 2026 in Match 24 of The Hundred Women's 2026, a 7:30 PM IST start with live coverage on JioHotstar. The Hundred's 100-ball format reshapes the captaincy maths from anything an IPL or T20 World Cup reader is used to: five-ball blocks at each end, a ten-ball powerplay in each innings, and a maximum of 20 balls per bowler. Two bowlers, not five, set the tone of an innings. The captain's pick has to come from someone who will bat inside those 100 balls and bowl inside those 20.
The form ledger heading into the game is one-sided. Birmingham Phoenix Women sit at the bottom of the table with one win, three losses and one abandoned match. Sunrisers Leeds Women come in on the back of a five-wicket win over London Spirit Women, chasing 137 in 98 balls. Annabel Sutherland top-scored in that chase with 37 off 21, the kind of innings that resets the captaincy conversation for fantasy readers who had been tracking her as a differential only. The Hundred Women's format has tightened the gap between top and bottom order, and the team that lands the captaincy multiplier on the right all-rounder is the one that wins a fantasy league on the night.
Edgbaston in early August is a different wicket from the Edgbaston of a Birmingham Bears T20 Blast evening. The Hundred Women's matches here have split the run-scoring fairly evenly between bat and ball. Across recent seasons at this venue, 44% of wins have come from the side batting first and 56% from the side chasing. The average first-innings score sits around 131 and the average chase lands at 128. Those are not T20 numbers. They are not Test numbers either. They sit in the band where a 30-ball 50 with one six is worth more in fantasy points than a 60-ball 60 with none.
The Leeds weather for the evening is the second variable the fantasy side has to absorb. The forecast reads 9°C ambient with a 5% rain probability, which is cold enough to keep the ball moving laterally through the first ten-ball powerplay. Pacers are expected to extract the most from the surface, with 52% of recent bowler impact at this venue coming from the seamers. Spinners will get turn later if the ball gets soft, but the wickets will more often come from the quicks who can hit the hard length outside off. For fantasy readers, that pulls the captaincy conversation away from spin-bowling all-rounders and towards pace-bowling ones.
Two probable XIs shape the night. Birmingham Phoenix Women are expected to field Tammy Beaumont and Davina Perrin at the top, Alice Capsey and Ellyse Perry at three and four, Emma Lamb and Annerie Dercksen in the middle, Jemima Spence behind the stumps, and a bowling group of Fatima Sana, Alana King, Linsey Smith and Lauren Filer. Sunrisers Leeds Women are expected to open with Bryony Smith and bring Jess Jonassen up the order, with Phoebe Litchfield and Annabel Sutherland slotting in at three and four, Danielle Gibson captaining at five, Lauren Winfield-Hill keeping wicket, and Deepti Sharma, Kate Cross, Cassidy McCarthy and Hannah Baker forming the bowling unit.
| Role | Birmingham Phoenix Women (BPH-W) | Sunrisers Leeds Women (SUL-W) |
|---|---|---|
| Openers | Tammy Beaumont, Davina Perrin | Bryony Smith, Jess Jonassen |
| Middle order | Alice Capsey, Ellyse Perry (c), Emma Lamb, Annerie Dercksen | Phoebe Litchfield, Annabel Sutherland, Danielle Gibson (c), Lauren Winfield-Hill (wk) |
| Bowling unit | Fatima Sana, Alana King, Linsey Smith, Lauren Filer | Deepti Sharma, Kate Cross, Cassidy McCarthy, Hannah Baker |
Three names carry the captaincy conversation into the toss window: Ellyse Perry, Annabel Sutherland and Danielle Gibson. Perry's tournament run is 124. Sutherland's is 183 and on the rise after that 37 off 21 against London Spirit. Gibson's all-round impact is the third leg of the stool. Fantasy readers who treat the captaincy tag as a single-player decision will underweight the format's bowler-captain dual role. The Hundred gives 20 balls to two bowlers and expects them to bat. The captaincy multiplier lands hardest on the player who contributes in both phases.
For small leagues where the goal is to clear the cut-off, the safer captaincy call is Ellyse Perry. Birmingham Phoenix Women are bottom of the table, which is exactly the situation that produces a captaincy overcorrection: opposition fantasy readers load up on SUL-W, captaincy tags cluster on Sutherland, Litchfield and Gibson, and the Phoenix captain is left at single-digit ownership. If Perry bats three or four in a 100-ball innings and the bowlers get through the powerplay, her dual role turns a 35-50 fantasy point baseline into a 70-100 ceiling with the 2x multiplier.
Pick Ellyse Perry as captain. Her 124 tournament runs, the dual bowling role and the contrarian ownership at the bottom of the table give the safest expected points-per-fantasy-side of any name on either XI. The captaincy tag on Perry clears the cut-off even on a quiet night.
The vice-captain slot in the small-league build goes to Annabel Sutherland. The 183 tournament runs and the 37 off 21 against London Spirit Women have shifted her ownership higher than Perry's, but her batting position at four means she will face the second half of the innings when the ball is older and the boundary is shorter on the leg side. The 1.5x multiplier on a 30-40 point innings from Sutherland is the cleanest vice-captain play available on either side.
Grand leagues work on rank distribution, not cut-off. The captaincy tag needs to land on a player with both a strong expected value and a low ownership percentage. Annabel Sutherland meets both criteria. She has the most tournament runs of any player on either side, the recent form of a 21-ball 37 against a top-three side, and a batting position that gets her into the innings when fantasy-side totals are typically built. The risk is real. A 100-ball format does not guarantee the captain 50 balls. But the multiplier on a high-floor batter with high ownership is wasted; the multiplier on a high-floor batter with low ownership is rank movement.
Move Ellyse Perry to vice-captain and pair her with a small-league differential. The captaincy tag on Sutherland and the 1.5x on Perry gives a grand-league side a 1.25x average multiplier across the two highest-floor spots on the field. Captain-Sutherland, vice-captain-Perry is the cleanest contrarian split.
The differential vice-captain option, for the most aggressive grand-league build, is Phoebe Litchfield. Her 136 tournament runs and her left-handed matchup against Linsey Smith and Alana King give a specific point of entry: two off-spinners, one left-handed batter, a 100-ball innings that will need to score against spin in the middle. Litchfield's selection percentage is currently lower than Sutherland's and Gibson's, but the upside is the same shape. The vice-captain tag at 1.5x on a 35-point Litchfield innings beats most other vice-captain calls on the field.
Three differentials sit outside the top-three names and still move a fantasy side up the leaderboard. Hannah Baker, the SUL-W quick, sits on 7 wickets in the tournament, second only among bowlers on either side. Her 20-ball quota at Edgbaston under overcast evening conditions is exactly the spell the format rewards. A 2- or 3-wicket return from Baker in the second half of the BPH-W innings is a 50-80 point return without the captaincy multiplier. Drop her into the bowling slots, accept the 1x, and let the wickets do the work.
The second differential is Alice Capsey. Her 4 wickets in the tournament do not look like much next to Baker's 7, but her batting position at three and her off-spin matchup against a SUL-W left-handed middle order give a dual-role ceiling that few other BPH-W names offer. The selection percentage on Capsey is depressed by the team's position at the bottom of the table, but in a 100-ball format the captaincy overcorrection cuts both ways. A 25-30 run innings with a 1- or 2-wicket return from Capsey is a 70-point fantasy night at 1x, and the captaincy tag is not required.
Alice Capsey is the differential to back in large-field grand leagues. Her dual role and BPH-W's low ownership on her name produce a high-variance pick that pays off on a 60-70 point night, with a floor that does not destroy a fantasy side if the wickets do not come.
The third differential is Deepti Sharma. The Indian all-rounder sits lower in the SUL-W batting order than the captaincy conversation assumes, but her off-spin bowling quota and her lower-order batting cameo in a 100-ball innings is the kind of late-innings point return that wins leagues where the rest of the field is loaded on the top six. Slot Deepti into the bowling slots as the second spinner or as a batting differential at number seven or eight, and let the role split do the work.
The Hundred's 20-ball-per-bowler rule reshapes the fantasy-side bowling maths. Five bowlers is the typical read, but only two of them are bowled into the powerplay, and only the third or fourth will get a full set under lights. The match-ups to watch are: Hannah Baker against Tammy Beaumont at the top of the BPH-W order; Linsey Smith against Bryony Smith at the top of the SUL-W order; Deepti Sharma against Ellyse Perry if Perry holds the batting anchor role; Kate Cross against Alice Capsey in the middle overs; and Fatima Sana against Annabel Sutherland in the chase.
Each of those five match-ups has a fantasy read. Baker against Beaumont is the strongest wicket-bowler match-up on the field: a left-arm angle against an opener who has struggled against the new ball at this venue. Linsey Smith against Bryony Smith is the BPH-W equivalent, a left-arm spinner against a right-handed top-order batter with a low boundary rate against spin in the middle overs. Fatima Sana against Sutherland is the cross-format wildcard: a Pakistani quick against an Australian batter on a used surface. Cross, Capsey, the middle-overs wicket duel, is where the BPH-W side can win back the powerplay deficit.
Cricket Winner's pre-match read puts the toss prediction at SUL-W winning the toss and electing to bat first, with 4 of the last 5 Edgbaston Hundred Women's games won by the side defending. The 56% chase win rate across recent seasons complicates that read slightly, but the cold evening and the lateral movement in the first ten-ball powerplay pull the bias towards batting first. If SUL-W bat first and post 135-145, the BPH-W chase becomes a gettable one with Phoenix's top three, and the fantasy side has to read the chase wickets, not the chase run-rate.
The win-probability split on the night is 40% BPH-W to 60% SUL-W. The bottom-of-the-table form line on Phoenix has been priced into that gap, but the captaincy conversation does not have to follow the win probability. Fantasy readers who pick the captain from the team more likely to lose still win their leagues when that captain lands on a 70-point night with the 2x multiplier. The Hundred's narrow run-scoring band keeps both sides competitive, which keeps the differential captaincy play live.
A balanced fantasy XI in the Hundred Women's format is structurally different from the IPL or T20 World Cup builds the same reader might be used to. One wicket-keeper, three batters, three or four all-rounders, and two or three bowlers is the standard split. The role split on this match leans towards three all-rounders because the captaincy conversation runs through Perry, Sutherland, Capsey and Deepti Sharma. The wicket-keeper slot goes to Lauren Winfield-Hill on form; the three-batter slot reads Beaumont, Litchfield and either Bryony Smith or Davina Perrin depending on whether the fantasy reader wants a SUL-W or BPH-W skew.
Bryony Smith, Davina Perrin, Phoebe Litchfield, Ellyse Perry (c), Annabel Sutherland (vc), Alice Capsey, Lauren Winfield-Hill (wk), Deepti Sharma, Fatima Sana, Hannah Baker, Linsey Smith. Captain-Sutherland and vice-captain-Perry is the grand-league build; the inverse is the small-league build.
The bowling slots go to Hannah Baker, Fatima Sana and Linsey Smith. The 20-ball quota and the Edgbaston conditions pull Baker and Sana ahead of the spinners in raw wicket expectation; Linsey Smith's left-arm angle is the third slot because of the middle-overs wickets against the SUL-W right-handers. Cross, King and McCarthy are bench options for the reader who wants a bowling-heavy build. Spence and Dercksen are the bench options for the reader who wants a BPH-W batting skew. The reader's call on captaincy is the single biggest decision on the night; the rest is balance.
The Hundred Women's format rewards Player-of-the-Match candidates that contribute in two or three phases. Phoebe Litchfield, Annabel Sutherland and Ellyse Perry are the three names on the Cricket Winner shortlist for that award. Litchfield's case is the left-handed matchup against the BPH-W spinners. Sutherland's case is the chase batting position and the recent 37 off 21. Perry's case is the captaincy multiplier on a 100-ball innings from a Phoenix side that will lean on her with bat and ball.
The fantasy reader does not need to pick the Player-of-the-Match correctly. The award is awarded by the match referee, not by the fantasy points system. What the fantasy reader needs is the player who scores the most fantasy points, which is a different question. In a 100-ball format, that player is almost always an all-rounder who batted through the middle overs and bowled two of the five-bowler sets. Perry, Sutherland, Capsey and Deepti Sharma are the four names in that conversation. Build the fantasy XI around two of them and let the third and fourth be the bench options for late swap-ins.
The Hundred Women's 2026 sits in a different slot on the Indian fantasy calendar than the IPL, the T20 World Cup, the Women's Premier League or the Big Bash. The format is shorter than a T20, the wickets are different from subcontinental surfaces and the team sizes are smaller than most fantasy readers will have seen on Dream11 or MyTeam11 through the summer. Readers who play The Hundred Women's fantasy contests on the Trust11 board should treat this as a separate format and read it with its own captaincy maths, not the IPL maths carried over from April.
For readers who want a fuller read on fantasy cricket captaincy across formats, the wider Trust11 fantasy tips desk keeps running notes on captaincy, differential picks, pitch reads and contest selection across the Hundred, the WPL, the Big Bash and the IPL. The Match 24 brief above is a snapshot, not a season plan. The captain-Sutherland grand-league build or the captain-Perry small-league build can be locked into a fantasy side on the night; the rest of the season is read by reading the next match.
Sunrisers Leeds Women are the favourites on the form ledger and the win-probability split. Birmingham Phoenix Women are bottom of the table and have to win at least three of their remaining fixtures to keep their tournament alive. The fantasy side, however, does not have to follow the win probability. The captaincy multiplier on a low-ownership Phoenix all-rounder, paired with the vice-captaincy tag on a high-floor SUL-W batter, is the contrarian play that wins a fantasy league on the night.
Lock the team by 7:15 PM IST, wait for the toss at 7:30 PM, and make the captaincy tag final once the playing XIs are confirmed. The Hundred Women's format does not leave time for a late swap after the first powerplay. Captain-Sutherland and vice-captain-Perry for grand leagues; captain-Perry and vice-captain-Sutherland for small leagues. Baker, Capsey and Deepti Sharma are the three differentials outside the captaincy conversation. The rest is a read on the Edgbaston evening and the 9°C Leeds cold that pulls the wicket count towards the quicks.
