TRT vs BPH Match 22 The Hundred 2026: Dream11 Fantasy Team Prediction, Captain Picks and a Cross-App Comparison

Match basics — Trent Rockets vs Birmingham Phoenix

Match 22 of The Hundred Men's 2026 is scheduled for Wednesday, 5 August 2026 at Trent Bridge, Nottingham. First ball is at 11:00 PM IST, which is 5:30 PM GMT and 6:30 PM local. The Hundred format plays 100 balls per side, so the run-time is shorter than a standard T20 — roughly an hour and forty-five minutes per innings — and the full evening slot from 11:00 PM to about 1:30 AM IST covers both.

Trent Rockets enter the fixture with the league's strongest record so far: four wins from five games, with the batting firing and the seam attack taking wickets at the powerplay. Birmingham Phoenix, in contrast, have lost three matches in a row and are searching for the batting form that got them to the 2024 Eliminator. The venue is Trent Bridge, and the conditions and surface shape everything that follows in the fantasy build.

Predicted Trent Rockets XI

The Rockets have not rotated heavily through the early rounds, and the projected XI for Match 22 reads as the same core that has built their four-win campaign. The combination gives fantasy players a settled top order to anchor a captain pick and a deep bowling unit to spread wicket-taking upside across the XI.

Predicted Birmingham Phoenix XI

Phoenix are dealing with the absence of Jacob Bethell, which thins the middle-order batting depth, and have rotated the seam attack to manage workloads across a congested schedule. The projected XI keeps the experienced top order and hands the ball to a four-seam attack, with the all-rounders slotting in at six and seven.

First suggested Dream11 fantasy team

The first suggested lineup is built around the Rockets' depth, with the captaincy leaning into Trent Bridge's batting surface. Finn Allen is the first-choice captain — his powerplay role in this Rockets XI gives him the highest expected balls faced and the highest ceiling on six-hitting points. Rehan Ahmed is the first-choice vice-captain, combining Phoenix's wicket-taking spin role with batting position three, which is the most balanced captaincy-pairing when the match-up is even.

The first suggested XI slots the two captaincy picks into their 2x and 1.5x slots, packs four Rockets batters around Sam Billings at wicketkeeper, balances the all-rounders at six and seven with Mitchell Santner and Lewis Gregory, and uses the four-seam Rocket pace battery plus Mitchell Owen and Scott Currie from Phoenix as the wicket-taking bank.

Second suggested Dream11 fantasy team

The second suggested lineup is a contrarian build that backs the chasing team if Phoenix bowl first and the pitch does not slow. Ben Duckett becomes the first-choice captain, with his left-hand angle against Phoenix's right-arm seam attack the most useful match-up edge in the first six balls of an innings. Joe Clarke is the first-choice vice-captain, bringing the wicketkeeper's dismissal points and the second-innings chase role.

This second XI leans further into the Rockets' top three, gives Saqib Mahmood a vice-captain option as the second-choice alternative, and uses Mitchell Owen as the second-choice captain alternative in case Phoenix win the toss and bat first. The two suggested XIs share six players; the captain and vice-captain positions are where the differentiation sits.

Captain and vice-captain matrix

The Hundred's 100-ball structure compresses the captaincy decision: each captain pick gets a 2x multiplier and each vice-captain pick a 1.5x multiplier on their fantasy points, which means the ceiling gap between the two is wider than in a 120-ball T20. The matrix below lays out the four highest-upside calls for Match 22, with the second-choice alternative named for each slot.

Pitch and weather at Trent Bridge

Trent Bridge is one of the more batting-friendly Hundred venues, and the Match 22 surface is expected to play true through the evening with some early swing for the seamers in the first set of five. Fast bowlers get bounce and carry off the surface, which keeps the wicket-taking ceiling alive for the four-seam Rocket attack, and the new ball swings for the first 12 to 15 balls before the Kookaburra softens. Spinners get minimal assistance, which is the structural reason the captaincy matrix leans on the pacers and the powerplay batters rather than on middle-overs spinners.

The match-day forecast for Nottingham on Wednesday evening is cloudy with a maximum of 22 degrees Celsius and average humidity close to 67 percent. No rain is in the forecast and dew is unlikely to be a serious factor in the second innings given the cloud cover and the early-evening start. The captain winning the toss will almost certainly bowl first and chase under lights, which is the kind of match-up that pushes the second suggested XI — the Duckett captaincy build — into the lead.

Head-to-head between Trent Rockets and Birmingham Phoenix in The Hundred

Across 10 meetings in The Hundred Men's competition, Birmingham Phoenix hold a 6-4 lead over Trent Rockets. That is a more even ledger than the current form lines suggest — Trent Rockets have won four of their five games this season while Phoenix have lost three in a row — but it explains why Phoenix are rarely dismissed as an upset pick at Trent Bridge. The Hundred's compressed format also means the head-to-head is heavily influenceable by a single powerplay, which is the structural reason both suggested XIs lean heavily on the powerplay role for the captaincy call.

How the same XI scores across the four big fantasy apps

One of the cleaner reads from this fixture is that the same eleven players score slightly differently across the four main Indian fantasy apps. Captain and vice-captain multipliers are largely identical at 2x and 1.5x on Dream11, My11Circle, MyTeam11 and Gamezy, but the run, wicket, catch and milestone points vary in ways that change which selection is the marginal edge. The cross-app comparison below maps the same eleven — the first suggested XI — across all four operators on the most impactful scoring lines for this match-up.

The practical read for Match 22: the suggested XIs score within roughly two percent of each other across the four apps on a typical 150-plus total, which means the differentiation comes from contest type and contest size rather than from the points system itself. Operators running powerplay bonus and death-overs multiplier formats give an extra edge to Tim David and Lewis Gregory, while a standard flat contest keeps the captaincy edge with Finn Allen or Ben Duckett. The full operator-by-operator scoring matrix is published on the fantasy points system comparison, which is the cleanest single-page reference for cross-app lineup decisions.

Contest-size and bankroll notes

The Hundred's short format compresses the variance window, which changes the contest-size math in two ways. First, a small-league (2 to 5 entry) contest with the first suggested XI leans on the captaincy calls landing cleanly, while a head-to-head contest rewards the contrarian second XI when Phoenix's batting form returns. Second, a mega contest with several thousand entries rewards selection uniqueness over captaincy accuracy, so picking Usman Tariq or Calvin Harrison as the differential captaincy alternative is the cleaner play for the large-field format.

Bankroll rules for a single-match contest are the same as for the IPL weekly cycle: cap any single match at 8 to 10 percent of the running bankroll, cap a single captaincy alternative at 3 percent, and avoid contest overlap above 25 percent of the XI between two mega contests in the same fixture. The cleanest bankroll call for Match 22 is one small-league lineup with the first XI and one mega-contest lineup with the second XI plus the differential captaincy alternative, which gives genuine cross-app coverage without doubling the downside.

Responsible-play and contest-frequency notes

The Hundred runs an eight-fixture block in roughly two weeks, which is the kind of fixture density that pushes contest frequency higher than usual. The Indian fantasy apps each have session-time and contest-frequency limits — Dream11's Play Responsibly panel, My11Circle's Cooling-Off timer, MyTeam11's weekly reality check, and Gamezy's Deposit Cap — and the operator-by-operator detail on what each app enforces sits on the fantasy app responsible-play tools comparison. The headline rule for an eight-fixture window is the same: pick one fixture-night as a hard stop, not the full block.

The 18+ age gate, KYC requirements and state-wise eligibility are unchanged from the IPL weekly cycle: Assam, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Odisha, Telangana and Sikkim continue to apply a state-level restriction on paid fantasy contests, and identity verification is required before the first withdrawal. A fantasy lineup can be built without verification, but the first withdrawal cannot.

Prediction and reading the match

The cleanest reading is that Trent Rockets go into the fixture as favourites: four wins from five, a settled batting order, a four-seam attack that swings the new ball on this surface, and a head-to-head venue record at Trent Bridge that is stronger than the overall competition record suggests. Birmingham Phoenix are running on a three-match losing streak, are missing Jacob Bethell from the middle order, and the bowling lacks a wicket-taking leader outside Saqib Mahmood. The most plausible match outcome is a Rockets win, with the toss the only material swing factor for the fantasy lineup decision.

Reading the lineup: if the toss falls to Trent Rockets and they bowl first, the Duckett captaincy build becomes the marginal favourite. If Phoenix win the toss and bat first, the Finn Allen captaincy build holds the edge because a defending target brings the Phoenix top order into play and gives Rehan Ahmed a clearer wicket-taking path. The two suggested XIs sit on either side of that single decision.

FAQs — TRT vs BPH Match 22 fantasy build

The next match to watch

Match 22 is the second of an eight-fixture block in The Hundred Men's 2026. After Trent Rockets vs Birmingham Phoenix, the next high-upside fantasy fixture on the calendar is Match 24 at Old Trafford on Friday, 7 August, where the captaincy conversation shifts to a different venue and a different wicket profile. The cleanest single-fixture plan for tonight is to set a 11:00 PM IST reminder for the toss, lock the lineup based on the toss outcome, and stick to one small-league plus one mega-contest entry across the four apps rather than chase the full multi-fixture block.