SOB-W vs BPH-W Match 13, The Hundred Women's 2026: Southern Brave Women Favourites as Phoenix Look for Their First Win at the Rose Bowl

Match 13 of The Hundred Women's Competition 2026 lands at the Rose Bowl in Southampton on Thursday 30 July 2026, with Southern Brave Women chasing a fourth consecutive win and Birmingham Phoenix Women hunting for their first completed-match victory of the campaign after two games that have left them bottom of the table on -7.768 net run rate. First ball is 7:30 PM IST, the live broadcast is on Star Sports in India, and the streaming home is the Jio Hotstar app and website.

Where the two sides stand before the toss

Southern Brave Women arrive at Match 13 in the form position every other side in The Hundred Women's 2026 would want to copy. Three games into the competition, three wins, three different challenges negotiated without dropping a contest. Their net run rate reads as healthy rather than freakish, and the side has not yet needed a last-over rescue to keep the streak alive. The Brave enter Thursday's fixture top of the table, and a fourth straight win would be the kind of statement that starts to define a campaign rather than simply maintain one. Coach and captain Sophie Molineux has had the rare gift of a settled XI across the opening phase, and that continuity is starting to show in the field placements and the middle-overs batting order.

Birmingham Phoenix Women, by contrast, are bottom of the table on -7.768 NRR after playing two group fixtures. The opening game of their season ended in a nine-wicket loss after they were bowled out for 64 — the kind of total that drags a net run rate off a cliff in a single afternoon and takes weeks of heavy wins to repair. Their second outing was abandoned due to rain, with the rules awarding them two points for the no-result without the chance to add to their over or run totals either way. Captain Ellyse Perry has therefore taken the field in one completed match and watched the other from the dugout, and the room for recovery in the group standings is closing by the round.

The booking frame for the Rose Bowl fixture makes the contrast sharper. SOB-W are playing at a venue where they have historically been strong in the Hundred format, and Phoenix are a side that has scored under 70 in their only completed innings of the season so far. The gap between the two form curves is not subtle, and it is the kind of mismatch that the betting markets, the broadcast desk and the fantasy ownership bands have all priced accordingly. What remains genuinely uncertain is whether Phoenix can find a batting template that survives the new-ball phase against Lauren Bell and Issy Wong, or whether the Brave will roll the same way they have rolled in their first three outings.

Match details: date, time, venue and broadcast

The fixture is on Thursday 30 July 2026 with first ball at 7:30 PM IST. The Hundred Women's Competition plays in the evening slot throughout the group phase, and Southampton is scheduled for the 100-ball format rather than a T20. The Rose Bowl has hosted Southern Brave since the men's Hundred launched in 2021, and the women's side has shared the same home since the women's competition began the following season. Phoenix are the travelling side and have a longer turnaround than the home team from their last completed outing.

For viewers in India, the match is broadcast on the Star Sports network and streamed live on the Jio Hotstar app and website. Coverage typically begins thirty minutes before the first ball with the toss, pitch inspection and team sheets. For viewers in the United Kingdom, the live broadcast is on BBC Two and the BBC iPlayer, with Sky Sports carrying the highlights package later the same evening. The Hundred remains free-to-air for the home audience, which has been one of the quieter but more durable reasons for its consistent growth in opening-week crowds since 2021.

Tickets for the Rose Bowl were sold via the Hundred's official site, and Southampton typically operates a combination of general admission stands and a premium South Pavilion block for evening fixtures. The weather forecast for Thursday evening on the south coast is the variable most worth watching across the afternoon, given the impact a sharp shower would have on a 100-ball innings in progress.

The head-to-head between the two franchises

Across four previous meetings in The Hundred Women's Competition, Southern Brave Women have won three and Birmingham Phoenix Women have won one, with zero no-results. The win-loss ratio is lopsided enough that the head-to-head number tells its own story, but the timing of those matches matters as much as the count. Phoenix's only win over the Brave came in the early rounds of the women's Hundred in a season when both sides were still experimenting with their overseas combinations, and the Brave's three wins have come against a Phoenix side that has cycled through head coaches and overseas director-of-cricket appointments at a rate that has made tactical continuity hard to establish.

The pattern across the four games is consistent in a way that should worry Phoenix heading into Thursday. The Brave have generally got on top of Phoenix's middle order inside the powerplay, and the Phoenix seamers have struggled to contain the Brave's left-hand batting cluster — Maia Bouchier, Laura Wolvaardt and Jemimah Rodrigues — in the set phase. Alana King and Linsey Smith are experienced operators with the ball, but the match-ups have not historically gone their way in this fixture. The Rose Bowl surface, with its consistent bounce and quick outfield, has also tended to flatter the side batting second on summer evenings, and the Brave have won the toss and chased twice in the four previous meetings.

None of this guarantees a Brave win on Thursday, but it does frame the live read. Phoenix do not need a tactical revolution to compete at the Rose Bowl; they need a scoreboard-respecting powerplay and the discipline to take the Brave's middle-order bowling into the death rather than the middle overs. Whether they have the batting depth to do that against Bell, Wong and Glenn is the question that the predicted XIs will answer at the toss.

Predicted Southern Brave Women XI

The Brave have named a settled side across the first three rounds and Cricketnmore's pre-match predicted XI follows the same shape: Maia Bouchier and Lizelle Lee at the top, with Laura Wolvaardt and Jemimah Rodrigues in the middle order, Sophie Molineux as captain and offspin all-rounder, Jodi Grewcock and Naomi Dattani as the seam-bowling all-rounders, Sarah Glenn as the lead leg-spinner, and Issy Wong, Lauren Bell and Tilly Corteen-Coleman as the three frontline seamers. The balance is conventional — a left-handed top three, a captain who can bowl the tough overs, and enough variety in the bowling unit to handle both the powerplay and the death.

The interesting calls in that XI are the role definitions rather than the personnel. Wolvaardt has batted at three in every fixture so far and has been the anchor of the Brave's powerplay phases, scoring at a strike rate that is steady without being flashy. Rodrigues at four is the position where her switch-hitting becomes a match-up weapon against both right-arm offspin and left-arm pace, and Dattani at seven gives Molineux the option of a seventh bowling option without sacrificing batting depth. The seam trio of Wong, Bell and Corteen-Coleman has been the engine of the three wins to date.

Predicted Birmingham Phoenix Women XI

Cricketnmore's predicted Phoenix XI is built around Tammy Beaumont and Davina Perrin at the top, Alice Capsey at three, Ellyse Perry at four as captain, Annerie Dercksen and Jemima Spence in the middle order, Kayla Reyneke and Alana King as the spin options, Eva Gray as a seam-bowling all-rounder, and Linsey Smith and Lauren Filer as the new-ball pair. The shape is a familiar Phoenix template — Beaumont to set the innings, Capsey to attack in the middle overs, Perry as the late-innings stabiliser — but the batting depth beyond Perry has been the most exposed part of the side in the season so far.

The Phoenix bowling attack looks more balanced than the batting. Reyneke and Filer give them two right-arm seam options who can hit the hard length consistently, Alana King is one of the better offspinners in the women's Hundred at holding an end through the middle phase, and Linsey Smith's left-arm spin gives captain Perry a different angle to bring on against the Brave's left-handers. The question for Phoenix is whether the batting can put a total on the board that gives the bowlers something to defend. In the only completed innings Phoenix have played so far, they were bowled out for 64, and that is the reference point everyone in the Phoenix dugout will be working against on Thursday evening.

The selection conversation around Phoenix has also been shaped by the rain-affected second game. With only one completed match on the board, Perry has had limited opportunity to settle on her preferred bowling rotation, and the most likely adjustments at the toss are around whether Dercksen or Spence gets the nod at six depending on the surface. If the Rose Bowl pitch is the batting-friendly track the venue has tended to produce in recent summers, Phoenix may push for the extra batting option.

Players to watch at the Rose Bowl

The two batters Cricketnmore flags in its pre-match preview are Ellyse Perry and Jemimah Rodrigues, and the case for watching both is straightforward. Rodrigues has been the Brave's most consistent middle-order scorer across the three wins, with a strike rate that has held above 140 in every innings so far, and she plays the spin match-up against Alana King particularly cleanly. Perry, on the other side, has not yet had a completed innings in which to find her range in this season's Hundred, and the question of how she paces a 100-ball innings under pressure against a high-quality seam attack is one of the genuine tactical subplots of the evening.

The two bowlers the preview singles out are Lauren Bell and Lauren Filer — both English seamers expected to lead their respective new-ball attacks. Bell has been the Brave's strike bowler across the opening phase, with a record that reflects both wickets and an economy rate that has held below the format average. Filer, on the Phoenix side, is the quicker of the two new-ball options and has the kind of pace that has historically troubled left-handed batters in the powerplay. The first ten balls of the innings, with the field up, are likely to be shaped by how those two bowlers read the conditions and whether they can find early swing under the Southampton floodlights.

Beyond the four names the preview explicitly flags, the live read on Thursday should also keep a watch on Sophie Molineux as captain. Her offspin has been the Brave's quiet middle-overs weapon, and her field placements when Perry is batting have been a subplot of the head-to-head in previous seasons. On the Phoenix side, Tammy Beaumont's powerplay starts have been mixed — she has been dismissed inside the first 15 balls more often than her career average in recent seasons — and the new ball is the moment in the innings that decides whether Phoenix give themselves a platform.

Pitch report for the Rose Bowl

The Rose Bowl in Southampton has historically offered a good batting wicket in the shorter formats. The first-innings average score in T20 cricket at the venue has sat between 165 and 175 across recent seasons, with consistent bounce off a surface that does not deteriorate sharply through the innings and a fast outfield that rewards placement through the off side. The Hundred's 100-ball format compresses that picture — totals in the 130-150 range are competitive, and 160-plus is generally the benchmark a side wants to be setting or chasing.

Chasing teams have won more often than not at the Rose Bowl in the men's Hundred, and the women's competition has followed the same pattern. The combination of a flat surface, evening floodlights and the dew factor in the second innings has consistently rewarded sides batting second in summer fixtures. Captains winning the toss have generally chosen to field, and the broadcast graphics in the opening phase have reflected that — the chasing side has won roughly 55-60 per cent of completed men's Hundred matches at Southampton across the four completed seasons of the competition.

For the women's Hundred specifically, the smaller square boundaries on the leg side at the Rose Bowl have tended to favour batters who work the ball into the leg side rather than rely on straight hitting, and that pattern is consistent with the kind of match-up thinking that tends to come up in women's T20 fantasy broadcasts. The bowlers most likely to feel the surface underperform are the offspinners, who tend to go for a touch more here than at venues with larger square boundaries, while the legspinners and the left-arm seamers have generally held their economy rates.

What fantasy cricket users are watching

For MyTeam11 users building teams around Match 13, the fixture reads as a captain-decision match-up more than a discovery match-up. The Brave's top order — Bouchier, Lee, Wolvaardt and Rodrigues — has been the most-owned batting cluster on the platform through the first three rounds, and the question is whether to lock that ownership band in again or to look for a differential in the Phoenix middle order where ownership is naturally thinner. The Brave seamers, particularly Bell, are the most-owned bowling options for similar reasons.

The differential read sits with Ellyse Perry. If Phoenix can steady their powerplay and give Perry a platform to bat on, she is the kind of player who can turn a mid-innings score into a match-defining knock. The vice-captain logic works the other way — if the Brave win the toss and bowl first, Bell and Wong become the vice-captain candidates on a surface where the new ball tends to do a bit more under the lights. Both reads are defensible; they are simply defensible in different ownership band positions.

The MyTeam11 lock-in for Match 13 is thirty minutes before the toss at 7:00 PM IST. The fantasy scoring engine pulls ball-by-ball data from the official Hundred feed, and captain picks carry a 2x multiplier while vice-captain selections carry a 1.5x multiplier. For users building across the rest of the women's Hundred card, the platform's projected-points feed updates once the official XI is confirmed at the toss, which is the moment at which injury replacements and last-minute changes settle into the scoreboard.

The match prediction, and what it actually means

Cricketnmore's pre-match prediction is for Southern Brave Women to win, citing the three-match winning run and the current momentum in the side. The reasoning is not complicated — form, head-to-head, depth in both departments and a venue that has historically suited the home side all point in the same direction. The disclaimer that accompanies the prediction in the original article is worth quoting because it is the same disclaimer that should apply to every fantasy read: the prediction and any cricket tips are the writer's opinion based on personal research, not a guarantee of result.

What that prediction does not do is account for the specific shape of the match Phoenix would need to win it. The Brave's three wins to date have not been runaway victories; they have been controlled performances in which the captain has had the option to pull back at the right moment and push at the right moment, and that kind of in-game control is exactly the resource Phoenix lack at the moment. Perry is a captain who can manage a chase, but she does not have the batting depth around her that Molineux has. The most likely Brave win on Thursday is therefore a controlled one in which the chase is steady rather than spectacular.

What to watch from the toss onwards

The toss at 7:00 PM IST sets the entire shape of the evening. If Sophie Molineux wins and chooses to bowl, the Brave are likely to push for early wickets and a chase in the 130-150 range; if Ellyse Perry wins and chooses to bat, Phoenix's task is to post a competitive total on a flat surface without losing more than five or six wickets in the 100-ball innings. Both captains have shown a preference for chasing at the Rose Bowl in previous seasons, so the broadcast's opening minutes will be the moment that determines which side is doing what.

The first ten balls will tell the Phoenix story. If Beaumont and Perrin survive Lauren Bell and Issy Wong's new-ball spell without losing a wicket, the platform for a competitive total is in place; if either falls early, the scoreboard pressure on the middle order compounds and the Brave's spinners will be operating against a set batting order rather than a rebuilding one. The middle phase, overs four to seven in the 100-ball format, is where Molineux's offspin and King or Smith's slow bowling will be doing the tactical work, and the death phase is where the difference in batting depth between the two sides becomes most visible.

The wider watchpoint for fantasy users and broadcast viewers alike is the broadcast's pitch-side coverage between innings. The Hundred has invested heavily in tactical graphics and player-cam footage since 2021, and the post-innings interviews in Match 13 are likely to focus on whether Molineux is satisfied with the Brave's campaign start and whether Perry is able to identify a specific turning point her side can work with across the rest of the group phase. There is no clean read on either of those questions before the toss, which is one of the reasons the fixture is the most-watched women's Hundred game of the week.

What the result means for the rest of the women's Hundred

A Brave win on Thursday would take them to four from four and start to define the top of the table rather than simply occupy it. The Hundred Women's group phase is short — eight matches per side in the round-robin — and a four-from-four start is the kind of cushion that gives a side room to absorb one or two later losses without losing qualification momentum. For the Brave, the fixture also begins a run of three matches in six days, and the squad management around Wong, Bell and Glenn is going to be tested across that block.

A Phoenix win would be the upset of the round, and the kind of result that rearranges the bottom of the table. A first win of the campaign would push Phoenix back into the qualification conversation, lift their net run rate off the bottom, and reset the conversation around Perry's captaincy. It would also be the kind of result that pulls the Brave's three-match run into sharper focus as a streak against one weaker opponent rather than a settled campaign statement. The probability of that outcome is lower than the form numbers suggest, but it is not zero, and the venue has produced surprises before.

The next fixture for both sides is on Saturday 1 August, when Southern Brave Women travel to Trent Bridge to face the Trent Rockets and Birmingham Phoenix Women host Northern Superchargers at Edgbaston. Match 13 is therefore the start of a busy weekend block for both sides, and the squad management decisions that follow on Thursday evening will frame the rest of the women's Hundred card for the week.

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