MSG-W vs TRT-W Dream11 Prediction — Match 14 The Hundred Women's 2026: Captain Picks, MyTeam11 XI

The Hundred Women's 2026 Match 14 puts Manchester Super Giants Women against Trent Rockets Women at Old Trafford in Manchester on Friday, 31 July 2026, with the first ball at 7:00 PM IST. Trent Rockets arrive off an 8-wicket win over Welsh Fire Women and sit third on the table with 8 points from 3 matches; Manchester Super Giants won their previous outing by 4 wickets on the back of Smriti Mandhana's 88 off 50. Ashleigh Gardner, the leading two-category scorer in the competition, and Smriti Mandhana, the in-form top-order anchor, are the captain picks our desk is leaning toward for a MyTeam11 lineup. The free MyTeam11 XI uses a 2-3-4-2 split, the Old Trafford pitch read, the Manchester weather note, and the outright call on a fixture the numbers favour the Rockets.

Match card: Old Trafford, 31 July 2026, and the table picture that frames the call

Match 14 of The Hundred Women's Competition 2026 is Manchester Super Giants Women vs Trent Rockets Women at Old Trafford in Manchester, Friday 31 July 2026, first ball 7:00 PM IST. Live streaming is on JioHotstar and live scores are tracked on cricketwinner.com. The Hundred's 100-ball format keeps each innings to 100 balls split into five sets of 20, which is the structural reason captains and vice-captains in this format are weighted towards players who touch the match through both bat and ball — the captaincy multiplier sits on a smaller number of contact balls than a 20-over T20, so a two-category anchor almost always wins the slot.

The form book heading into the fixture is split. Trent Rockets Women arrive on an 8-wicket win over Welsh Fire Women and sit third on the table with 8 points from 3 matches, a record that puts them one win behind the top two with a game in hand on some rivals. Manchester Super Giants Women won their previous match by 4 wickets, with Smriti Mandhana making 88 off 50 to anchor the chase, and the points table position is the kind of mid-table presence that turns this into a swing game for the home side. The implication for a MyTeam11 lineup is that the captaincy decision has to balance form (Mandhana, Gardner) against venue behaviour (a 58% bowling-first win rate at Old Trafford favours the fielding captain's bowler).

Old Trafford pitch and Manchester weather, 31 July 2026

The Old Trafford pitch in Manchester has settled into a clear pattern across the recent Hundred window: 42% of matches won by the side batting first, 58% won by the side bowling first, and 61% of wickets going to pace bowlers. The average first-innings score is 118 and the average second-innings score is 116, which is a narrow margin that says the toss has more weight than the format is usually given credit for. The lateral movement in the first 15-ball set is the differentiator — when the new ball grips, the chase becomes a survival exercise and the captain's bowling reads carry the leaderboard.

The Manchester weather for the 31 July fixture is 10–11°C, 25% rain probability, and 91% humidity. The 91% humidity is the number that matters for fantasy lineup builders — it slows the ball just enough off the square to give slower-ball variations and cutters an extra half-metre of grip, and it rewards bowlers who can vary pace rather than rely on raw pace. The 25% rain probability is low enough to call the game on, but high enough to flag the possibility of a shortened innings that compresses the captaincy window further. Cricket Winner's preview leans on the bowling-first win rate at the venue and advises the fielding captain to take first use of the conditions, which is the right call on the 58% bowling-first number.

Probable XI for Manchester Super Giants Women

Manchester Super Giants Women's probable XI for the 31 July fixture is Meg Lanning (C), Smriti Mandhana, Grace Scrivens, Paige Scholfield, Richa Ghosh (WK), Mady Villiers, Kathryn Bryce, Maitlan Brown, Ryana MacDonald-Gay, Sophie Ecclestone, and Grace Ballinger. The top order is built around Lanning and Mandhana with Scrivens at three and Scholfield as the accelerator; Richa Ghosh slots in at five with the gloves and provides a left-handed option in the middle order. The bowling is led by Sophie Ecclestone — the world's leading spinner in the format — and the all-rounders Villiers, Bryce, and MacDonald-Gay give the captain options across the first three sets. Maitlan Brown and Grace Ballinger round out the attack as the pace-quota finishers.

The fantasy angle on the Super Giants XI is the Smriti Mandhana form-line. Her 88 off 50 in the previous match is the single highest score in the competition this week and the kind of innings that turns a captain pick from a probability call into a form call. The risk on the home side is the over-reliance on a single top-order batter — if Lanning and Mandhana fall early, the middle order (Scrivens, Scholfield, Ghosh) is functional but not the kind of depth that wins a 100-ball chase on a 58% bowling-first win rate. The 2-3-4-2 XI we walk through below is built to capture the Mandhana upside without leaning entirely on the Super Giants path.

Probable XI for Trent Rockets Women

Trent Rockets Women's probable XI is Ashleigh Gardner (C), Sophia Dunkley, Beth Mooney (WK), Nat Sciver-Brunt, Sophie Luff, Georgia Adams, Bess Heath, Georgia Elwiss, Kim Garth, Charley Phillips, and Samantha Bates. The order runs Gardner, Dunkley, Mooney at the top, with Sciver-Brunt and Luff as the middle-order anchors and Adams and Elwiss as the all-rounders. The lower order is Heath, Garth, Phillips, and Bates — a long tail that gives the captain length if the top order clicks but exposes the chase if the new ball finds early swing. Gardner captains the side, which is the single most important role note for the MyTeam11 lineup: a captain who also bowls off-spin is the cleanest two-category anchor in the matchup.

The fantasy angle on the Rockets XI is the depth. With Gardner, Sciver-Brunt, and Garth as the three all-rounders, the Rockets have one of the most two-category-heavy top sevens in the competition, and on a 61% pace-favouring surface, the Elwiss-and-Garth seam pairing gives the captain a third seamer option that doesn't compromise the batting depth. The risk on the Rockets is the top-order dependency — if Gardner and Dunkley fall in the first 15-ball set, the middle order is required to rebuild on a surface that is averaging 116 in the second innings, and that is a thinner margin than the table position suggests. The 2-3-4-2 XI captures the Rockets depth through the Gardner captaincy and the Sciver-Brunt vice-captaincy.

Captain picks: Ashleigh Gardner and Smriti Mandhana

The two captain picks our desk is leaning toward for a MyTeam11 lineup are Ashleigh Gardner (C) and Smriti Mandhana (C). Gardner is the form captain of the competition and the leading two-category scorer in the Rockets' XI — she captains the side, opens the batting, and bowls off-spin in the middle sets, which triples her contact with the match outcome. Mandhana is the form batter of the round on the back of 88 off 50 in the previous fixture and slots into the Super Giants top order at the venue where Trent Rockets hold a 50% win record against Manchester Super Giants' 30%. The captain math on this fixture is that the two-category path (Gardner) and the in-form top-order path (Mandhana) are both viable, and the differential captain decision depends on whether you want to bet on the form side or the venue-implied favourite.

Gardner is the Grand League captain pick because her two-category upside is the cleanest single differential in the matchup. Mandhana is the Small League captain pick because the in-form top-order anchor on the side that needs to win is the highest-floor play in the contest. The two-name split — rather than doubling down on a single captain — is consistent with the broader 60-25-15 portfolio frame that the desk uses on 100-ball fixtures: the safe captain combination lives in the small-league entries, and the differential captain combination lives in the mega entries. The trade-off is that the lineup loses one pure bowler slot to the vice-captain multiplier, but on a 61% pace-favouring surface the all-rounder-heavy structure is the higher-EV shape.

Vice-captain picks: Sophia Dunkley and Ryana MacDonald-Gay

The vice-captain picks are Sophia Dunkley (VC) and Ryana MacDonald-Gay (VC). Dunkley is the high-floor middle-order batter for the Rockets — under the 1.5x multiplier, she has the cleanest ceiling of any single-category slot in the matchup because she bats in the middle set where the captain's bowling reads have already created the wicket-taking chances. MacDonald-Gay is the differential vice-captain — the Super Giants left-arm spinner who takes the new ball and offers a different angle to the rest of the pace-heavy league. The 1.5x multiplier on a left-arm spinner on a 61% pace-favouring surface is the single highest-leverage vice-captain slot in the matchup if the surface grips at the schemer overs.

The two-name split captures the batting and bowling halves of the vice-captain slot. Dunkley anchors the batting vice-captain path with a middle-order ceiling, and MacDonald-Gay anchors the bowling vice-captain path with a left-arm angle on a surface that rewards variation. The risk on Dunkley is the Rockets' top-order dependency — if Gardner falls early and the middle order is rebuilt around Sciver-Brunt, Dunkley is one position lower in the order and the 1.5x multiplier is harder to convert. The risk on MacDonald-Gay is the spin-friendly window — if the surface plays flat through the middle set, the left-arm angle has a lower conversion rate. The split hedges both.

Free MyTeam11 XI (2-3-4-2 split)

The free MyTeam11 XI our desk is submitting for the 31 July fixture is Beth Mooney (WK), Richa Ghosh (WK), Smriti Mandhana, Sophia Dunkley, Nat Sciver-Brunt, Ashleigh Gardner (C), Mady Villiers, Kathryn Bryce, Sophie Ecclestone, Ryana MacDonald-Gay (VC), and Grace Ballinger. The structure is a 2 wicketkeeper / 3 batter / 4 all-rounder / 2 bowler split, which is unusual for a 100-ball format but is the right call here because the leading captaincy anchors (Gardner, Sciver-Brunt, Villiers, Bryce) are all two-category players. The two-bowler split is the trade-off — the lineup is light on raw pace quetas — but the 4-all-rounder shape captures the differential upside that the surface and the form book reward.

The captain is Gardner at the top of the Rockets order, and the vice-captain is MacDonald-Gay at the back end of the Super Giants attack. Mandhana is the in-form top-order anchor who carries the highest-floor batting slot in the lineup, and Dunkley is the middle-order ceiling under the 1.5x slot. The two wicketkeepers — Mooney and Ghosh — give the lineup two left-handed options in the top six and the depth to weather a top-order collapse. The four all-rounders (Gardner, Sciver-Brunt, Villiers, Bryce) cover the middle-set bowling and the lower-order batting in a single slot, which is the structural reason the 2-3-4-2 split beats a more conventional 1-4-3-3 in this matchup.

Small League XI: the floor play

The Small League XI is Beth Mooney, Richa Ghosh, Smriti Mandhana (C), Sophia Dunkley, Ashleigh Gardner (VC), Nat Sciver-Brunt, Mady Villiers, Kathryn Bryce, Sophie Ecclestone, Grace Ballinger, and Kim Garth. The captain is Mandhana, leaning into the 88-off-50 form on the back of the previous match, and the vice-captain is Gardner, breaking the two-category upside into a 1.5x slot. The structure is a 2 wicketkeeper / 3 batter / 4 all-rounder / 2 bowler split that mirrors the Grand League XI but flips the captain vice-captain pair to anchor the Small League on the form side rather than the venue-implied favourite.

The Small League XI is the higher-floor lineup of the two. The captaincy is on the in-form top-order batter from the side that needs to win, and the vice-captaincy is on the two-category anchor from the side that is most likely to win. The trade-off is that the lineup loses the differential upside of the Grand League XI but gains the consistency of two form-anchored captaincy slots. The Small League XI is the right entry for head-to-head contests and contests with 50 to 500 entries, where the goal is to beat the field by 20–30 points rather than to hit a top-1% finish. The Grand League XI is the right entry for contests with 1,000+ entries, where the differential captaincy pays out at the top of the leaderboard.

Head-to-head record and the split-season read

The head-to-head record across the last 10 meetings between Manchester Super Giants Women and Trent Rockets Women reads 2 wins for MSG-W, 2 wins for TRT-W, and 0 no results. The 2-2-0 split across the last four completed meetings is the kind of even split that turns a fixture into a swing game rather than a one-sided call. The venue record is the deciding factor: Trent Rockets hold a 50% win record at Old Trafford against Manchester Super Giants' 30%, which is the number the desk is leaning on for the outright call. The 20-percentage-point gap in the venue record is larger than the table position suggests and is the reason the implied favourite is the Rockets.

The split-season read is that the recent form of the two sides has moved in opposite directions. The Rockets have won 3 of their last 3 matches and sit third on the table with 8 points, while the Super Giants have been functional but inconsistent — the 4-wicket win in the previous match was their first win in the last two outings. The combination of the venue record and the recent form is the desk's reason for the outright call below, and the implication for a MyTeam11 lineup is that the captaincy on a Rockets batter or all-rounder (Gardner) is the higher-EV slot, and the vice-captaincy on a Super Giants all-rounder (MacDonald-Gay) is the hedge against a home-side win.

Outright prediction: Trent Rockets Women

The outright call is Trent Rockets Women to win. The desk backs that call on four grounds: the table position (Rockets third, Super Giants mid-table), the recent form (3 wins in 3 for the Rockets vs inconsistent for the Super Giants), the venue behaviour (a 58% bowling-first win rate at Old Trafford favours the side that wins the toss and bowls), and the head-to-head venue record (50% win rate for the Rockets vs 30% for the Super Giants). The probability of a Rockets win sits in the 55–62% range based on the form and the venue, and the expected margin is tight enough that the captaincy picks above still have positive EV even on a Super Giants win.

The matchup event to watch is the toss. If the Rockets win the toss and bowl first — the right call on the venue's 58% bowling-first win rate — the Gardner captaincy is the cleanest single decision in the matchup, and the lineup is built to capture the differential upside through the Sciver-Brunt and Villiers all-rounder slots. If the Super Giants win the toss and bat first, the matchup shifts towards the Mandhana captaincy and the MacDonald-Gay vice-captaincy becomes the higher-EV slot. The 2-3-4-2 XI structure above is built to survive both toss outcomes without requiring a captain swap, which is the practical reason the desk is willing to commit to the Rockets outright call on a 100-ball fixture.

Reading the matchup through the broader MyTeam11 captain math

For lineup builders who want to read this 31 July fixture back through the broader captain math, contest split, and bankroll discipline framework that drive our desk's fantasy coverage, the rest of our fantasy cricket analysis on MyTeam11 walks through the safe-versus-risky captain rotation, the 60-25-15 entry split that survives a single 100-ball matchup, and the unit-size rules that make a multi-lineup portfolio on this fixture sustainable. The Hundred's 100-ball format compresses the captaincy variance into a small number of sets, which is why the captain framework matters more on this fixture than it does on a 20-over T20.

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