The Hundred: Trent Rockets vs Birmingham Phoenix

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Market context

The Hundred match between Trent Rockets and Birmingham Phoenix is a single cricket contest, so a **YES** share pays if the scheduled meeting produces the named winner under the competition’s playing conditions, while a **NO** share pays if it does not. In this market, ordinary results include wins decided by on-field rulings such as DLS, over-rate penalties or forfeits, and any authorised tiebreak would count as the official winner. [1][2]

Recent head-to-head results point to a closely fought rivalry rather than a one-sided matchup. Birmingham Phoenix beat Trent Rockets by 10 runs at Edgbaston in 2026, after Trent Rockets had won the previous men’s meeting in 2025 by six wickets, and Phoenix also edged a 2024 contest by six runs. That pattern matters for a trader reading a 100% crowd-implied probability: it suggests the market is priced as if the outcome is already known, which is usually more consistent with a match that has been played, settled, or otherwise assumed to have resolved than with an ordinary pre-match estimate. [1][6][8]

For catalysts, watch the confirmed scorecard, any official result announcement, and whether the match was completed in full or affected by weather, as those details determine whether the market resolves as a win, a washout, or an on-field tie-break outcome. BBC’s live coverage for the fixture listed Edgbaston as the venue and a 18:30 start, and the same competition report shows Phoenix’s total and Rockets’ chase, which are the key facts a prediction-market reader would use to match the settlement rules to the actual result. [2][4]

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Methodology

This page reviews The Hundred: Trent Rockets 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 Prediction Market UK, which mirrors the Polymarket order book at 0% fees.

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