SOB-W vs ML-W Dream11 Prediction — Match 9 The Hundred Women's 2026: Captain Picks, MyTeam11 XI

The Hundred Women's 2026 Match 9 pits Southern Brave Women against MI London Women at the Rose Bowl in Southampton on Monday, 27 July 2026, with the first ball at 7:30 PM IST. SOB-W arrive on a four-win-five-match run and sit top of the table with 8 points and a +0.349 net run rate; ML-W have lost five in a row, sit sixth with a -2.862 NRR, and bring the weakest recent form in the league. Hayley Matthews, with 4 wickets in three matches, and Jemimah Rodrigues, who scored 42 off 34 in her last outing, are the two captain picks our desk is leaning toward for a MyTeam11 lineup. The free Grand League and Small League XIs, the pitch read, and the outright call are below.

Match card: where, when, and the table position that frames the call

Cricket Winner's 27 July preview sets this fixture as Match 9 of The Hundred Women's Competition 2026, SOB-W vs ML-W, at the Rose Bowl in Southampton, with the first ball at 7:30 PM IST. The Hundred format keeps the innings to 100 balls each, which compresses the captain math into a small number of high-leverage overs — typically the powerplay 1-15 balls set, the middle-set 16-50 balls, and the closing set 51-100 balls. With only 100 balls a side, every bowler gets a maximum of 20 balls (split across two 5-ball sets), and that ceiling is what shapes the captain rotation we walk through below.

The table picture has shaped the outright call. Southern Brave Women have posted W, W, L, W, W across their last five, sit first with 8 points and a +0.349 net run rate, and have already banked two wins in this competition. MI London Women have gone L, L, L, L, L, sit sixth with a -2.862 net run rate, and have lost two. The gap is the widest in the table, and on a Rose Bowl surface that has a 53% bowling-first win rate in recent seasons, the toss and the chase order matter just as much as the team selection.

Pitch and weather at the Rose Bowl, 27 July 2026

The Rose Bowl's recent Hundred history reads 47% win batting first, 53% win bowling first, and the pace-friendly distribution comes from the surface offering enough lateral movement to reward the new-ball bowler in the first set. The average first-innings score at the venue is 127, the average second-innings is 113, and 59% of the wickets have gone to pace bowlers across the recent window. The Hundred's 100-ball format amplifies that differential because the powerplay set is condensed into the first 15 balls, and any early swing tends to dictate the scoreboard for the rest of the chase.

The forecast for Southampton on the day of the match is 15-16°C at the toss, 7% rain probability, and 79% humidity. In Hundred terms that is a full game. The 79% humidity is the relevant number for bowlers — it slows the ball slightly off the square and gives the slower-ball variations an extra fraction of grip. Cricket Winner's preview advises bowling first if you win the toss, which is the right call on a 53% bowling-first win rate at the venue, and the implication for MyTeam11 lineup builders is that pacers should weight more heavily than the role split would suggest on a flat batting track.

Probable XI for SOB-W

The Southern Brave Women's probable XI at the Rose Bowl on 27 July, as listed in the preview, is Maia Bouchier, Lizelle Lee (wk), Laura Wolvaardt, Sophie Molineux (c), Jemimah Rodrigues, Jodi Grewcock, Naomi Dattani, Sarah Glenn, Issy Wong, Lauren Bell, and Tilly Corteen-Coleman. The batting order puts Bouchier and Lee at the top, Wolvaardt and Rodrigues as the middle-order anchors, and Molineux as the captain who'll likely hold the keys in the middle set. The bowling unit is led by Lauren Bell, who has 18 wickets in her last ten Hundred matches, and Issy Wong, who brings the express-pace angle. Sarah Glenn rounds it out as the wrist-spin option in the middle overs.

The fantasy angle on this XI is the depth. With Rodrigues in the middle order, Lee at the top, and Wolvaardt as the anchor, the SOB-W lineup has three of the strongest international batters in the tournament batting in the top six. The bowling has a clear pace spine (Bell, Wong, Corteen-Coleman) and a wrist-spin option (Glenn) that gives the captain three change-ups if the surface grips. On a 53% bowling-first win rate venue, the SOB-W bowling-first scenario is the most likely positive-EV outcome for MyTeam11 lineup builders who captain a Brave bowler.

Probable XI for ML-W

The MI London Women's probable XI is Hayley Matthews, Danni Wyatt-Hodge, Kira Chathli (wk), Amelie Kerr, Nicola Carey, Hollie Armitage (c), Chinelle Henry, Alice Davidson-Richards, Alice Monaghan, Alexa Stonehouse, and Danielle Gregory. The order puts Matthews at the top with Wyatt-Hodge, Chathli at three, Kerr as the spin option who can also bat, and Carey as the seam-bowling all-rounder. Armitage captains the side and bats in the middle order. The lower order has Henry, Davidson-Richards, Monaghan, Stonehouse, and Gregory — a long tail that the SOB-W pacers will target with the new ball.

The fantasy angle on ML-W is sharper than the table position suggests. Matthews at the top is the only ML-W player most MyTeam11 users will captain, and her 4 wickets in three matches with the ball make her a serious two-category option. Kira Chathli at three has 78 runs in her last four matches, which is the kind of middle-order form that makes her a high-floor vice-captain. The risk for ML-W lineup builders is that the long tail leaves them exposed to a top-order collapse — if Matthews and Chathli fall early, the batting depth is thin and the captain pick is stranded.

Captain picks: Hayley Matthews and Jemimah Rodrigues

The two captain picks our desk is leaning toward for a MyTeam11 lineup are Hayley Matthews (C) and Jemimah Rodrigues (C). Both are in-form, both have a clear role, and both play on a surface that favours their strongest skill. Matthews has 4 wickets in three matches with the ball and is one of the most reliable two-category scorers in the tournament — she opens the batting and gets the new ball, which doubles her contact with the match outcome. Rodrigues scored 42 off 34 in her last outing, slots into the SOB-W middle order, and on a Rose Bowl pitch that is 59% pace-friendly, her ability to anchor the innings through the middle set is the highest-floor captain pick in the matchup.

The captain math on this fixture is unusual because the venue favours pace bowlers but the highest-floor captain picks are batters. Matthews is the one clean exception — she is the only player in the matchup where the two-category upside (bat + ball) is high enough to overcome the bowling-first toss variance. Rodrigues is the safer pick and the one that anchors small-league and head-to-head entries for our desk. The differentiation between the two is whether you want to bet on the fielding-side captaincy on a bowling-first toss or the batting-side captaincy on a 7:30 PM chase.

Vice-captain picks: Kira Chathli and Lauren Bell

The two vice-captain picks are Kira Chathli (VC) and Lauren Bell (VC). Chathli brings 78 runs in four matches at the top of the ML-W order, and the 1.5x multiplier on her middle-order ceiling is the cleanest single slot in the matchup. Bell brings 18 wickets in her last ten Hundred matches at the Rose Bowl, and on a 59% pace-friendly surface, she is the highest-ceiling bowler in the contest. The reason to split vice-captaincy between these two — rather than doubling up on a single player — is the two-category hedge: Chathli anchors the batting vice-captain slot and Bell anchors the bowling vice-captain slot, and your lineup captures differential upside on both sides of the ball.

The risk on Chathli is ML-W's table position. If the Brave pacers strike early and the middle order collapses, Chathli's 78-run-four-match floor is gone and the vice-captain slot is wasted. The risk on Bell is the opposite — she is the sort of bowler who can take 3-for in a single match but also go wicketless on a flat day. The two-name split gives your lineup exposure to both the batting and the bowling ceiling without committing the entire vice-captain multiplier to a single variance path.

Free Grand League XI

The free Grand League XI our desk is submitting for the 27 July fixture is Lizelle Lee (C), Kira Chathli, Laura Wolvaardt, Danni Wyatt-Hodge (VC), Jemimah Rodrigues, Amelie Kerr, Hayley Matthews, Sophie Molineux, Lauren Bell, Tilly Corteen-Coleman, and Alice Monaghan. The captain is Lee at the top of the SOB-W order, and the vice-captain is Wyatt-Hodge at the top of the ML-W order. The structure is a 1 wicketkeeper / 4 batter / 3 all-rounder / 3 bowler split, which is a touch all-rounder-heavy to capture the Matthews + Molineux + Kerr two-category upside. On a pace-friendly surface, the three bowler slots (Bell, Corteen-Coleman, Monaghan) cover the new-ball, the middle-overs seam, and the death-overs angle respectively.

The lineup math here is that the captaincy is on two top-order batters from the team that is favoured to win, and the vice-captaincy is on the top-order batter from the team that is most likely to lose but most likely to score early if the toss goes ML-W's way. Wolvaardt, Rodrigues, and Matthews fill the middle-order and the all-rounder slots with two-category upside, and Kerr slots in as the spin-bowling all-rounder who doubles as a batting depth option. The trade-off is that the XI runs light on pure bowling — three slots — but the surface and the bowling-first win rate at the Rose Bowl say that three high-quality bowlers is the right call.

Free Small League XI

The free Small League XI is Lizelle Lee, Laura Wolvaardt, Danni Wyatt-Hodge, Jemimah Rodrigues, Amelie Kerr, Hayley Matthews (C), Chinelle Henry, Sophie Molineux (VC), Jodi Grewcock, Lauren Bell, and Tilly Corteen-Coleman. The captain is Matthews, leaning into the two-category upside on a bowler-friendly surface, and the vice-captain is Molineux, who is the SOB-W captain and the most likely candidate to anchor the middle set. The structure is a 1 wicketkeeper / 3 batter / 4 all-rounder / 3 bowler split, which is heavier on all-rounders than the Grand League XI — Matthews, Kerr, Molineux, and Henry all bowl in addition to batting, which is the Small League hedge against a single captain pick going cold.

The Small League XI is the higher-floor lineup of the two. Grewcock slots in as the third batter, and Henry replaces Monaghan at the all-rounder slot to give the lineup a middle-overs seam option that the Grand League XI does not have. 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.

Outright prediction: Southern Brave Women

The outright call in the preview is Southern Brave Women to win. The desk agrees with that call on four grounds: the table position (SOB-W first, ML-W sixth), the recent form (4 wins in 5 vs 5 losses in 5), the surface (pace-friendly at 59%), and the bowling-first win rate (53% at the Rose Bowl). The probability of an SOB-W win sits in the 60-68% range based on the form and the surface, and the expected margin is tight enough that the captaincy picks above still have positive EV even on a Brave loss. The implication for a MyTeam11 lineup is that you want to captain a Brave batter or a Brave bowler (or, in Matthews's case, an ML-W all-rounder who captures the differential path), and you want your bowling slots to be SOB-W-pacer-heavy.

The matchup event to watch is the toss. If SOB-W win the toss and bowl first — the right call on a 53% bowling-first win rate at the venue — the Brave pacers have first crack at the ML-W top order, and the captaincy on a Brave bowler or a Brave top-order batter is the cleanest single decision in the matchup. If ML-W win the toss and bat first, the matchup shifts towards the ML-W top order and the captaincy on Matthews or Chathli becomes the higher-EV slot. The lineup structure above is built to survive both toss outcomes without needing a captain swap.

Reading the matchup through the broader MyTeam11 captain math

For lineup builders who want to read this 27 July fixture back through the broader captain math, contest split, and bankroll discipline framework that drive our 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, so the framework matters even more than it does on a 20-over T20.

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