The Hundred: Birmingham Phoenix vs Sunrisers Leeds

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Market context

Polymarket is pricing the **USDC**-settled, Polygon-based conditional token on Birmingham Phoenix to beat Sunrisers Leeds at **0% YES** today, so the contract is effectively treating a Phoenix win as a near-impossible outcome. On the live cricket side, the corresponding men’s fixture at Edgbaston is already in motion, and market users should remember that Polymarket resolves on the official result mechanics, including ordinary wins, DLS/DRS adjustments, over-rate penalties and any on-field tiebreak that the playing conditions permit.

Recent head-to-head context does not give Phoenix much support. In the women’s match at the same venue earlier today, Sunrisers Leeds beat Birmingham Phoenix by nine wickets after Phoenix posted only 107 for 9, and ESPN also shows Sunrisers winning the 2025 men’s meeting by 36 runs, while Birmingham’s recent men’s results against Leeds have been mixed rather than dominant. The broader Edgbaston scoring environment can still swing quickly: one recent Hundred match there produced 400-plus total runs, while other games have collapsed into low totals, so a trader reading a 0% contract is really weighing whether the innings state and venue volatility leave any residual chance of an upset.

The key catalysts are simple: the final score, any DLS intervention if weather shortens the chase, and whether the match is completed under the competition’s standard playing conditions without an unusual administrative finish. BBC’s live coverage lists the fixture at Edgbaston with a start time of 18:30 UK time, while scoreboards and commentary feeds can move the implied probability sharply if wickets fall in clusters or the target becomes trivially reachable. Because the market’s settlement window runs well beyond the match itself, the decisive event is not today’s trading range but the official match result once the tournament confirms it.

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Methodology

We track The Hundred: Birmingham Phoenix vs Sunrisers Leeds across the five venues with material prediction-market liquidity. The probability shown is the live Polymarket mid; the comparison rows summarise how each venue treats the underlying contract — fees, KYC thresholds, settlement currency, deposit options. The highlighted row marks the cheapest route into Polymarket's order book.

Resolution & payout

Settlement runs on-chain. Polymarket's contract logic separates YES and NO shares as conditional tokens; at resolution the winning share lifts to $1.00 and the losing one to $0. The outcome input comes from the UMA Optimistic Oracle, which secures against bad resolution with a bond + dispute window.

Once finalised, the smart contract pays USDC to the holders' wallets within minutes — no withdrawal fees beyond Polygon network gas. Kalshi settles in USD via CFTC clearance, Betfair in account currency net of commission, Manifold in play-money mana with no cash-out.

UK Frequently Asked Questions

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How does resolution work?

Through the UMA Optimistic Oracle on Polygon: a proposer submits the outcome, a two-hour challenge window opens, and USDC payouts settle automatically once the result is final.

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