LNS-W vs ML-W Dream11 Prediction Match 23 Women's Hundred 2026: Fantasy Picks, Playing XI, Pitch Report at Lord's

London Spirit Women and MI London Women walk into Match 23 of the 2026 Women's Hundred at Lord's on Thursday evening, with first ball scheduled for 7:30 PM IST. The fixture sits at the back end of the group stage with very different stakes for each side: Spirit need a second win of the campaign to keep their top-four chase alive, while MI London arrive bottom of the table on the back of five straight defeats and are looking for the spark that finally opens their account.

The source material from Cricket Addictor's same-day preview underlines the form split cleanly. Spirit have registered one win from five and sit sixth, and the headline performers are Grace Harris (108 runs and one wicket in the campaign), Marizanne Kapp (96 runs and nine wickets) and captain Charlotte Dean. MI London are bottom on zero from five, but the player-level numbers carry their own logic: Hayley Matthews has roughly 93 runs and eight wickets, Amelia Kerr has 87 runs and four wickets, and Chinelle Henry has chipped in with 87 runs and one wicket. Those all-round totals are the fantasy hook on a surface that has averaged 139 in the first innings at Lord's this summer and rewarded chasing sides to the tune of 53 percent.

Below is the full fantasy read for the evening — Spirit's batting order and where Grace Harris slots in, MI London's structure around Matthews and Kerr, the small-league and grand-league captaincy calls, the Lord's pitch and weather notes, the predicted XIs, the players to avoid, and what to watch across the rest of the Women's Hundred week.

London Spirit Women's path into Match 23

Spirit have had a quieter Hundred than the pre-tournament model expected. One win from five leaves them sixth, just outside the top-four cut, and the gap between where they sit and where the table-toppers are sitting is the kind of margin that needs a winning streak to close. The relevant read for fantasy is that the side has not collapsed — Grace Harris has been the constant with 108 runs in five innings, and the bowling unit has been steady enough to keep matches inside reach. The single win came with the kind of structure that travels: a 50 from the top order, three or four wickets from the seam attack, and a controlled death.

Charlotte Dean takes the captaincy armband for Spirit. Dean's role is unusual: she bowls four overs of off-spin at the middle phase, fields cleverly in the infield, and bats deep enough that her late cameo counts in the Hundred points system. The Fantasy Cricket angle is that Dean is a borderline captain pick in small leagues for the credit she offers — you get four overs of a quality spinner plus the chance of 10-15 runs at number seven or eight.

The Spirit batting card opens with Grace Harris and Amy Jones. Harris has been the side's most productive batter through the group stage and is the cleanest top-order fantasy captain pick on either side — her strike rate against pace has been comfortably above 130 across her five innings and she has the range to clear the short square boundaries at Lord's. Jones, behind the stumps, has been tidy in the early-season matches and offers a second top-order fantasy option with a points profile that benefits from stumpings as well as runs.

The middle order is where Spirit's bowling all-rounders sit. Marizanne Kapp and Nadine de Klerk form a seam-bowling pair that doubles as run-scoring depth: Kapp has 96 runs and nine wickets in the tournament so far, which makes her the most bankable all-rounder on either side on raw numbers. Deandra Dottin slots in as the third all-rounder and gives Spirit a power-hitting option in the last 15 balls. Marie Kelly rounds out the top six and is the second-spinner slot when the team wants to lengthen the batting. The seam attack behind the all-rounders is Charis Pavely, Hannah Rainey and Trudy Johnson, with Katie George the fourth seamer option.

MI London Women and the search for a first win

MI London are bottom of the table on five defeats from five and have played the kind of Hundred that turns every match into a damage-limitation exercise. The batting card has not produced the totals the side's roster would suggest, and the bowling unit has been on the receiving end of more boundary balls than the captain would have wanted. The match-up with Spirit, though, offers a route into the points column: Spirit are not the most clinical top order in the competition, and the bowling all-rounders in MI London's XI are good enough to keep the match within fantasy range even when the batting falls short.

Hollie Armitage captains MI London. Armitage's Hundred record as captain is mixed but her own batting has been steady: she sits in the top three of the MI London run charts and is the side's most reliable anchor against the new ball. For fantasy, Armitage is a defensive captain pick in small leagues — she will not produce the ceiling that Grace Harris or Amelia Kerr can, but her floor is the kind of 25-35 that keeps a fantasy XI out of the bottom half.

The MI London keeper's gloves go to Kira Chathli. Chathli has had a quieter Hundred with the bat than the side would have hoped but has been reliable behind the stumps and offers captain points through stumpings when MI London's spinners find turn. Alice Davidson-Richards slots in at the top of the order alongside Armitage, with Hayley Matthews, Amelia Kerr and Nicola Carey forming the middle order. Matthews is the cleanest vice-captain pick in a grand league — her all-round points profile (roughly 93 runs and eight wickets in five matches) is among the strongest on either side and her off-spin gives her a fourth bowling option that the captain can call on in the middle phase.

The bowling unit pairs Chinelle Henry and Alice Monaghan as the seam all-rounders, with Tara Norris, Alexa Stonehouse and Kirstie Gordon forming the specialist seam attack. Stonehouse has been the side's most bankable new-ball wicket-taker, and Norris offers left-arm variety that Spirit's right-handed top order will need to read carefully. The MI London bowling card has more wicket-taking potential than the win column suggests, which is the relevant fantasy read: a side bottom on results can still produce a healthy fantasy haul when the bowlers find their lengths.

Lord's pitch, weather and the toss angle

Lord's in this Women's Hundred campaign has produced an average first-innings score of 139, with the second-innings totals typically running around 20 runs higher because of the dew that settles in the second half of the evening. The source notes describe the surface as batting-friendly and best suited to pacers who hit a hard length, with the chasing side winning 53 percent of completed matches at the venue. The boundary dimensions are the standard Lord's set-up: short square, long straight, with enough carry through the air for the spinners to earn their overs in the middle phase.

For pace bowlers, the relevant variable is bounce. The Lord's pitch has produced consistent carry in the first six overs across the tournament, and the bowlers who have done best are the ones who hit the deck hard rather than searching for swing. Alexa Stonehouse, Tara Norris and Hannah Rainey all fit that profile. For spinners, the turn has been enough to reward the slower balls without making the surface a turner, which keeps Charlotte Dean, Amelia Kerr and Hayley Matthews relevant through the middle overs.

Weather in central London on Thursday evening is forecast at 20 degrees Celsius and partly cloudy, with no rain in the window. Light winds and the standard dew pattern from the tenth over onwards mean that captains who win the toss are likely to bowl first — the chasing side has the historical edge at Lord's in this tournament and the dew gives the batters extra grip on the ball in the run chase. The 7:30 PM IST start keeps the worst of the dew out of the powerplay, which slightly favours the side batting first on a hard-length surface.

The fantasy read for the toss is to wait for the call before locking in your XI structure. If the toss goes the expected way and Spirit bowl first, weight the MI London top three slightly higher and pick one extra Spirit seamer. If the toss goes the other way and MI London defend, flip the structure: take Grace Harris and Amy Jones as your two Spirit batters and back the Spirit seam attack to take early wickets against an MI London top order that has struggled against the new ball.

Predicted playing XIs

London Spirit Women (LNS-W): Grace Harris, Amy Jones (wk), Marie Kelly, Marizanne Kapp, Nadine de Klerk, Deandra Dottin, Charlotte Dean (c), Katie George, Charis Pavely, Hannah Rainey, Trudy Johnson.

MI London Women (ML-W): Alice Davidson-Richards, Hayley Matthews, Hollie Armitage (c), Amelia Kerr, Nicola Carey, Kira Chathli (wk), Chinelle Henry, Alice Monaghan, Tara Norris, Alexa Stonehouse, Kirstie Gordon.

Both XIs are subject to final confirmation at the toss. Spirit have named the captain, wicketkeeper and seven other players in advance; MI London have named the captain, wicketkeeper and the full set of bowling options. The full batting order will be confirmed when the sides are read out on the field, but the bowling architecture for both teams is fixed.

Dream11 captain picks: small league and grand league

Small-league captain: Grace Harris. Harris is the profile that fits Lord's in this Hundred: a top-order batter who takes on the new ball, scores quickly against pace, and has been Spirit's most consistent batter through the group stage. The Hundred's points system rewards boundary-hitting and strike rate, and Harris has been one of the more efficient boundary-hitters at the top of either order in the early-season matches. She is the safer pick in a small league because her floor is high even when Spirit lose, and her ceiling against a new-ball attack that has not produced the wickets MI London would have wanted is well above the alternatives.

Grand-league captain: Hayley Matthews. Matthews is the higher-variance pick. Her all-round profile — roughly 93 runs and eight wickets in five matches — gives her a points ceiling that no other player in either XI can match, but her tendency to operate in the middle overs means her batting points depend on the MI London top order setting a platform. In a grand league where captain points are doubled, the asymmetry rewards the upside, and the Lord's surface is the right venue for that gamble: short square boundaries punish the bowlers who drop short, and Matthews punishes anything short.

The choice between the two comes down to contest structure. Small leagues reward consistency; grand leagues reward ceiling. Both picks carry similar credit relative to the alternatives, so the decision is purely a risk-reward call on the captain slot. For grand leagues with two captaincy slots, the cleanest pairing is Harris as captain and Matthews as vice-captain; for small leagues with one captain slot, take Harris and back her to anchor the team.

Players to avoid in this fixture

Three names are the clear fades for Match 23. The first is the lower-order batter from either side who bats at eight or nine: the Hundred's points system rewards boundaries and strike rate, and the bottom of the order rarely gets enough balls to make those counts. With seven batters and four bowlers a standard split in both XIs, the eighth-batter slot is a coin-flip allocation and is better spent on a fifth-bowler option who can pick up wickets in the middle overs.

The second is the second specialist spinner in either XI. Both teams name one frontline spinner — Charlotte Dean for Spirit, Amelia Kerr for MI London — and the match-up against the pace-led Lord's surface means the second spinner typically picks up one over at most in the middle phase. The credit spent on a second spinner is better used on a part-time option from the top seven, who offers batting upside as well as the chance of an over.

The third is the bowler who has already bowled the death in the previous match and is likely to be held back for the powerplay. In the Hundred, captains rotate their bowler match-ups based on the batter at the crease, and the bowler who bowled the 18th and 19th in the previous match often gets the new ball in the next game to give them a different rhythm. That makes the relevant fantasy read a per-player one: check which bowler each captain has used in which phase in the last match before finalising your XI.

Fantasy team structure for Match 23

The optimal structure for the Lord's fixture runs four batters, one all-rounder, three bowlers, one wicketkeeper and two further all-rounders or bowlers depending on credit. The four-batter base gives you three sets of five balls from the top order and the bonus of catching any second-innings dew-driven chase from the chasing side's top order. The all-rounder slot is best spent on the captain pick or vice-captain pick, and the three bowlers should include one specialist pace, one specialist spin and one bowler who can take wickets in either phase.

The wicketkeeper slot is contested by Amy Jones and Kira Chathli. Jones offers slightly better run-scoring consistency in the powerplay; Chathli offers higher ceiling if the innings is rebuilt in the middle overs. Both are credible picks; the call depends on whether you prefer the floor or the upside in the keeper slot.

The captain-and-vice-captain pairing is the highest-leverage decision in any fantasy team. For the small league, captain Harris and vice-captain Marizanne Kapp is the cleanest pairing — both are top-order or top-six, both offer a secondary bowling skill, and both have been at the crease in the powerplay at Lord's. For the grand league, captain Matthews and vice-captain Amelia Kerr is the higher-ceiling pairing, with Kerr offering the wicket-taking upside on a surface that has rewarded spin in the middle phase.

What the source verdict says, and how to read it

Cricket Addictor's preview verdict for Match 23 has London Spirit Women as the expected winner based on team combination, and that is the right starting point but not the whole story. Spirit are sixth on one win from five; MI London are bottom on zero from five. The talent differential is real — Kapp, Dottin, Harris and Dean as a unit is the more bankable core — but the result on the night will hinge on which side handles the toss and the dew better, and whether Matthews and Kerr can produce the kind of all-round performance that has been missing from MI London's campaign so far.

For fantasy purposes, the verdict matters less than the form lines. Harris's 108 runs, Kapp's 96 runs and nine wickets, Matthews's 93 runs and eight wickets and Kerr's 87 runs and four wickets are the four data points that shape captaincy and vice-captaincy calls. The rest is structure: pick two batters from the chasing side if the toss goes the expected way, pick three bowlers across pace and spin, and avoid the bottom-of-the-order slots where the points profile rarely justifies the credit.

What to watch next in the Women's Hundred 2026

Match 23 is one of three Women's Hundred fixtures scheduled in the first August window, and the table is tight enough that the outcome will have a material impact on the top-four race. Spirit will be looking for a second win to climb back into the upper half of the table; MI London will be aiming to use the Lord's fixture as the platform for the campaign's first win and the reset that comes with it.

Beyond this match, the watch list is straightforward. The Hundred's first-ever mid-season trade window closed earlier this week, and any new signings will debut in the back half of the group stage. The weather window for the rest of August looks settled across the English venues, which means more batting-friendly conditions and another month of high-scoring fantasy totals. And the race for the top-four is now tight enough that every remaining match carries knockout-stage weight, which is the cleanest external anchor for fantasy captaincy calls in the coming rounds.

For fantasy readers who want the wider Hundred, T20 and Women's cricket picture in one place, the IPL Fantasy King editorial desk covers captain picks, venue reads and playing-XI updates across the Hundred and IPL 2026 seasons. The Match 24 preview will land on the editorial desk later this week, and the wider Hundred preview series runs alongside the IPL Fantasy King cricket predictions and AI captain picks archive throughout the 2026 season.

Match 23 first ball is 7:30 PM IST on 6 August 2026 at Lord's, London. The toss and playing XIs will be confirmed at 7:00 PM IST on match day.