MI London Women host Trent Rockets Women in Match 25 of The Hundred Women's 2026 at Kennington Oval on 8 August 2026, with a 3:30 PM IST start. This preview brings together the captain and vice-captain reads, the suggested 2-1-5-3 combination, the predicted XIs, and the practical Think11 app checklist an Indian fantasy player runs before locking in a squad: KYC level, UPI deposit path, withdrawal thresholds, and the state-eligibility check that decides whether a paid entry is even on the table. The fantasy cricket app desk publishes the daily-100-ball matchups, KYC thresholds, and the UPI deposit and withdrawal flow that Indian users run before every contest.
· Think11 Fantasy Desk · 11 min read
Match 25 of The Hundred Women's 2026 is the Friday evening slot at Kennington Oval (also called The Kia Oval), London, between MI London Women and Trent Rockets Women, with a 3:30 PM IST start that maps to 11:00 AM local in London. The league table tells two very different stories heading in: Trent Rockets Women sit on 20 points from 6 matches (5 wins, 1 loss) and have effectively locked the top seed; MI London Women are seventh on 6 points from 6 matches (1 win, 5 losses) and have been eliminated from the playoff race. The match matters because of the head-to-head record — MI London Women lead Trent Rockets Women 3-1 in completed meetings, and home advantage at the Oval narrows the gap on paper even when the form table says otherwise.
The Hundred is a 100-ball format: each side faces 100 balls in a single innings, with a 20-ball powerplay, a 15-ball middle block, and five traditional 5-ball sets at the death. Captains cannot bowl more than 20 balls; bowlers cannot bowl two consecutive sets; batters retire at 50 but can return once the rest of the side is dismissed. The format skews fantasy points toward all-rounders (bowl four sets and bat at 4-5) and away from tail-enders. For an Indian fantasy user picking an XI on a Friday afternoon, the 2-1-5-3 combination is the natural read: two keepers (Mooney + Chathli, the two who keep in this match), one pure batter, five all-rounders, and three bowlers.
The captaincy picture splits cleanly between the two MI London all-rounders at the top and the two Trent Rockets finishers underneath. Hayley Matthews sits on 93 runs and 8 wickets for the season and bowls the powerplay off-spin for MI London; she is the natural Small League (SL) captain on home advantage. Amelia Kerr has 156 runs and 4 wickets and slots in as a leg-spin option who can also anchor the chase; she is the safer Grand League (GL) captaincy choice because her ceiling is slightly lower than Matthews but her floor is higher. On the Trent Rockets side, Ashleigh Gardner is the captain on the field and has 61 runs and 10 wickets in 6 matches — she is a vice-captain pick rather than a captain pick because her batting position (5-6) caps the points ceiling. Sophia Dunkley is the top run-scorer in the tournament with 259 runs and is the highest-ceiling vice-captain on the visitor side.
The cleanest fantasy combination for a 100-ball match on a 140-average batting surface is 2 keepers, 1 batter, 5 all-rounders, 3 bowlers. The two keepers slot in: Beth Mooney (Trent Rockets, wicket-keeper, set-piece finisher) and Kira Chathli (MI London, wicket-keeper, middle-order accelerator). The one pure batter is Sophia Dunkley. The five all-rounders are Hayley Matthews (c), Nat Sciver-Brunt, Amelia Kerr, Ashleigh Gardner (vc), and Nicola Carey. The three bowlers are Samantha Bates, Tara Norris, and Kirstie Gordon. The two punt picks on the day are Chinelle Henry (MI London all-rounder, 109 runs and 3 wickets) and Georgia Elwiss (Trent Rockets all-rounder, 27 runs and 4 wickets) — both are differential picks under 10% ownership in mega contests and bring bowling + finishing points.
The two XIs that almost every fantasy desk has converged on for this match are below. The MI London Women XI has Matthews opening and Armitage at three; Kira Chathli keeps the gloves; Tara Norris and Kirstie Gordon are the two frontline seamers, with Alexa Stonehouse as the third. The Trent Rockets Women XI has Beth Mooney behind the stumps at the top of the order, Dunkley at two, Sciver-Brunt at three, and Ashleigh Gardner slotting in at four to maximise the captaincy overlap. The two players the desk suggests leaving out are Danny Wyatt and Evelyn Jones, both of whom have missed recent matches and have no current Dream11 credit or last-match points to anchor a decision on. Leaving them out is a captaincy-floor call, not a skills judgement — neither has been in the playing XI in the last week and neither has a confirmed return slot.
The Kennington Oval surface is batting-friendly with a first-innings average of 140 in The Hundred Women's matches and a chasing win percentage of 55 per cent. The bowler type that has consistently done best at the venue is pace on a hard length, with spinners picking up the squeeze in the middle sets. The match-day weather in London on 8 August is forecast at 22 degrees C and overcast, which is the classic Oval condition for early lateral movement and a slightly lower scoring powerplay than the average. From a fantasy lens, the overcast conditions slightly favour the seam-bowling all-rounders (Sciver-Brunt, Gordon, Norris) in the powerplay, while the chase remains the more reliable path to a winning total.
The head-to-head record is 3-1 in favour of MI London Women across completed meetings, with one abandoned fixture. The form table says Trent Rockets Women by a country mile; the head-to-head says the home side. The two reads are not contradictory: the home side has historically played Trent Rockets close despite the gap in the rest of the schedule, and the Oval deck flattens out after the powerplay. The match-winner prediction that has been published alongside this preview favours MI London Women, with the reasoning that head-to-head and home advantage outweigh a 14-point gap in the league table when the form of the two XIs is matched player-for-player. A safer fantasy read is that the captaincy ownership splits more evenly than the table suggests, which keeps the differential captaincy angle alive in mega contests.
An Indian fantasy user is not making a fantasy decision in isolation — there is an app-and-KYC layer underneath the squad-build that decides whether the squad can actually be entered, paid for, and settled. The Think11 app checklist that has to run before locking the captain is the same checklist that any paid entry requires, and it is the part most new users skip until the match has started.
State eligibility. The Hundred Women's 2026 fixture is played in London, but the fantasy contest is run by an Indian operator and is therefore subject to Indian state rules. Think11 is not available in Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Odisha, Assam, Sikkim, Nagaland, and a small set of union territories. If your registered mobile number or PAN is tied to one of those geographies, the squad cannot be entered. The KYC flow blocks sign-ups at the mobile verification step, and the app surfaces the state-specific responsible-play message on the welcome screen for users in Tamil Nadu and Karnataka. The first check before locking the captain is therefore the most boring one: is this app available where I am?
KYC level. Think11 runs a four-tier KYC system under PMLA 2005. Tier 0 (sign-up only) lets you browse and build a squad but not pay. Tier 1 (PAN verified) lifts the deposit cap to Rs 2,000 per transaction and Rs 10,000 per month, with a Rs 5,000 per-day withdrawal cap. Tier 2 (bank verified via penny drop on the first UPI deposit) is where most paid contests live — up to Rs 1,00,000 per transaction and Rs 1,00,000 per withdrawal. Tier 3 (full eKYC with Aadhaar or video KYC) is triggered by cumulative withdrawals crossing Rs 2,00,000 in a financial year. Tier 4 (re-KYC under PMLA 2024 amendments) is triggered by cumulative withdrawals crossing Rs 1,00,000. For a single Match 25 entry, Tier 2 is sufficient; the tier 3 and 4 triggers only matter if the season-to-date withdrawals have already pushed the account close to the threshold.
UPI deposit path. The deposit is a 30-second flow: open the app, tap Add Cash, enter the amount, choose UPI, approve the collect request in your UPI app. The first UPI deposit also triggers the penny drop, which is the Rs 1 credit-and-reversal that records the bank account number for KYC tier 2. The minimum deposit is Rs 10, and the deposit cap before KYC is Rs 2,000 per transaction. The 100-ball contest entry fee on Think11 is typically Rs 1 for a practice contest, Rs 10-50 for small leagues, and Rs 100+ for mega contests — well within the pre-KYC cap if the user has not yet verified PAN.
Withdrawal thresholds and timing. The 100-ball match starts at 3:30 PM IST and ends roughly 5:00-5:30 PM IST, with contest settlement within 5 minutes of the last ball. The withdrawal request sits in the wallet under Withdraw and is paid out via UPI to the verified bank account. The safest withdrawal window is mid-week, 10 AM to 4 PM, when bank UPI servers are most stable. Friday afternoon is fine for the immediate withdrawal of any Friday Match 25 winnings, but the user should avoid the 7 PM to 11 PM IPL window when bank servers throttle sudden credit.
Bonus code and welcome bonus. New Think11 users can apply bonus code THINK11100 at first deposit to unlock a Rs 100 welcome bonus. The bonus lands in the contest wallet the moment the deposit clears, and the bonus-funded contests pay real winnings that are subject to the same KYC tier 2 requirement as deposit-funded winnings. The bonus does not count toward the Rs 1,00,000 re-KYC threshold, but the winnings from bonus-funded contests do count toward your normal weekly withdrawal cap.
Responsible play guard rails. The wallet screen exposes a per-week deposit cap, a per-week withdrawal cap, a session time limit, and a self-exclusion window (24 hours to 6 weeks). The 100-ball format is fast — a Friday afternoon can produce two or three entries and a withdrawal request in under 90 minutes — and the deposit cap is the most useful guard rail to set before the captaincy lock at 3:00 PM IST. Setting the cap takes 30 seconds in the app and prevents the impulse re-entry that the format's pace invites.
Two reads change the XI between the predicted XIs above and the final selection 15 minutes before toss. Read 1: the toss. The Hundred toss is decisive because the side batting first sets a par total that the chasing side has to clear, and Oval chases win 55 per cent of the time. If MI London win the toss and bat first, Matthews shifts up the captaincy order in fantasy ownership because the home side is more likely to set a target and defend; if Trent Rockets win the toss and bat first, the captaincy ownership swings back to Gardner and Dunkley. Read 2: the playing XI. The predicted XIs above are 90 per cent reliable for The Hundred Women's 2026 because the tournament uses a 14-player squad with no Impact Player rule, but the late scratches that have hit other Hundred sides this season (a wrist niggle, a side strain that surfaces in the warm-up) are the one thing that flips a 1-5 combination into a 2-1-4-4. The Think11 news desk posts the toss and the confirmed XI on the match page within minutes of the announcement, and the user who turns on notifications sees the swing before the captain lock at 3:00 PM IST.
Three narrative moments will swing the fantasy leaderboard. Moment 1: the Matthews powerplay. The first 20 balls of the MI London innings decide whether the home side sets a competitive target, and Matthews is the strike bowler and the powerplay batter. If Matthews takes a wicket in the first ten balls or scores in the first ten balls, her captaincy ownership is locked above 35 per cent by the end of the powerplay, which is the threshold where the differential pick becomes the consensus pick. Moment 2: the Gardner-Sciver-Brunt middle block. The middle set (balls 21-50) is where Trent Rockets typically post the bulk of their total, and Gardner and Sciver-Brunt handle the strike rotation. If both are firing, the chase becomes chaseable and the captaincy swing to Dunkley as a differential vice-captain is the cleaner read. Moment 3: the death sets. The Hundred's five-set death (balls 76-100) is where the bowlers with yorker length win or lose the match, and the death-over wickets are weighted 2.5x in the standard fantasy scoring on Think11. Tara Norris and Samantha Bates are the two death bowlers to watch, and a death-over hat-trick in either innings is the kind of swing that ends a mega contest.
The captaincy decision is the same shape across contest types, but the weight of each branch differs. For a Rs 1 entry or a small league, the captain is Matthews and the vice-captain is Gardner — the safe, high-floor, high-ownership picks that win in 80 per cent of lineups. The risk is a low ceiling; if Gardner or Matthews underperform, the captain multiplier underperforms with them. For a mega contest with 100,000+ entries, the captaincy mix inverts. Matthews remains the SL captain, but Kerr takes the GL captaincy because her ownership is below 25 per cent in mega contests and her floor is higher than Matthews when the home side loses early wickets. The two punt picks — Chinelle Henry and Georgia Elwiss — slot in as the vice-captaincy swing, with Henry the pick if MI London bat first and Elwiss the pick if Trent Rockets bat first. The combined differential ownership of the four (Kerr, Henry, Elwiss, and a fifth pick that varies by desk) is the read that wins mega contests at low cost.
The Hundred is a UK tournament, and Indian participation in Hundred fantasy contests goes through licensed skill-game operators within Indian state rules. Think11 operates under the 2024 amendments to the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA 2005), with mandatory PAN verification for tier 1, mandatory bank verification (penny drop) for tier 2, and the Rs 1,00,000 cumulative withdrawal threshold for tier 4 re-KYC. The MeitY (Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology) online gaming rules from 2023 require fantasy operators to display the per-match skill-based gaming disclosure, the state-specific responsible-play message, and the Self-Regulatory Body (SRB) registration where applicable. Think11 displays all three on the welcome screen and on every contest entry, and the SRB-verified status of the operator is the assurance that a paid entry is on a regulated platform, not an offshore operator.
The wider 2026 landscape for Indian fantasy players is one of incremental compliance tightening. The PMLA 2024 amendments raised the enhanced due diligence threshold for skill-based gaming platforms to Rs 1,00,000 cumulative withdrawal per financial year. The Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Amendment Rules 2023 require self-regulatory body registration for any real-money online gaming operator. The Goods and Services Tax (GST) regime for fantasy gaming remains at 28 per cent on the full face value of contest entry, but the GST is collected at the operator level, not the user level. The Income Tax Act Section 194BA (TDS on online gaming winnings) at 30 per cent on net winnings above Rs 10,000 per session applies to all fantasy operators and is deducted at source by Think11 before the winnings land in the user wallet. None of this changes the Match 25 squad-build, but it does change the withdrawal timing — a user who crosses Rs 10,000 in a single contest on Friday should expect a TDS line item on the withdrawal receipt.
Match 25 is the second-to-last league-stage fixture for both sides, and the next move on the Hundred Women's calendar is the Saturday double-header (Match 26 and Match 27), with the playoff equation finalised by Sunday evening. For the Indian fantasy user, the practical next steps are: (1) confirm the captaincy read on the Friday evening post-match, (2) review the Rs 1,00,000 cumulative withdrawal position and decide whether to plan the weekend withdrawals to stay below the threshold or to trigger a tier 4 re-KYC early, (3) reset the per-week deposit cap in the wallet screen to a level that allows one Saturday and one Sunday entry without re-thinking the budget, and (4) check the state-specific responsible-play message on the welcome screen for any change between Match 25 and Match 27 — Tamil Nadu and Karnataka have been the most active states on regulatory movement, and the message text can change between fixtures.
