Sunrisers Leeds Women meet Manchester Super Giants Women at Headingley on Tuesday, 28 July 2026 in Match 10 of The Hundred Women 2026. Here's the probable XI from each side, the captain pick that fits the cloud cover, and what the Headingley pitch is expected to do for fantasy managers building teams at 7:30 PM IST.
Match 10 of The Hundred Women 2026 lands at Headingley, Leeds, on Tuesday, 28 July 2026 with a 7:30 PM IST start — the broadcast goes out on Star Sports Network and the stream runs on JioHotstar. Both sides have already played at least one match in this season's cycle, and the gap between them on the table is built on two very different recent evenings.
Sunrisers Leeds Women are coming off a five-wicket defeat to Southern Brave Women. Their batters were bowled out for 116; the bowlers, despite the chase, still took five wickets, which is the more useful signal for fantasy managers — SRL W have the attack to keep a side in the game even when the batting card is mid-tier. Manchester Super Giants Women had their most recent outing — against Birmingham Phoenix Women — abandoned because of rain, so their last completed result is a seven-wicket win over London Spirit Women after Spirit were dismissed for 80. The 80 all out is the number worth carrying into the Headingley team sheet.
The SRL W probable XI from the CricTracker pre-match note lists Lauren Winfield behind the stumps, with Phoebe Litchfield, Bryony Smith, Deepti Sharma, Annabel Sutherland, and Jess Jonassen in the mix. That is a batting order with two overseas top-order anchors in Litchfield and Winfield, the Indian all-round control of Deepti Sharma at number four, and Jonassen slotting in as the left-arm spin option. Annabel Sutherland gives the side a seam-bowling all-rounder who can bat in the top six.
For fantasy players, the practical read is that SRL W's batting ceiling is set by Litchfield and Winfield at the top, and the side's wicket-taking punch sits with Deepti Sharma and Jonassen through the middle overs. If the Headingley surface plays slow later in the evening, Jonassen is the bowler most likely to climb the fantasy scorecard.
The MSG W probable XI includes Richa Ghosh, Meg Lanning, Smriti Mandhana, Paige Scholfield, Sophie Ecclestone, and Kathryn Bryce. Meg Lanning and Smriti Mandhana together at the top is the most star-studded opening pair in The Hundred Women 2026, and Richa Ghosh at three gives the side a finish-and-start-against-spin option behind the stumps. Ecclestone and Bryce round the attack out — Ecclestone as the left-arm spin matchup against the left-handers in the SRL W top order, Bryce as the seam-bowling all-rounder.
The seven-wicket win over London Spirit — built on dismissing Spirit for 80 — is the recent reference point. That performance came on a surface where Ecclestone and Bryce shared the wickets through the middle phase. If Headingley offers early seam movement under cloudy skies, expect MSG W to lean on the same plan: hold Ecclestone back for the middle, let the seamers strike first.
Phoebe Litchfield is the captain pick for the Match 10 fixture after scoring 51 runs across her first two innings of the season. In a five-wicket defeat, her 51 is the score that kept SRL W in the contest long enough for their bowlers to take five; the fact that she is still the highest run-scorer for her side through two matches is the only statistic fantasy managers need. Litchfield plays the cover-drive off both pace and spin, and on a Headingley surface that has been described as offering help to both, she is the player most likely to convert a start into a match-defining 60-70.
The captain armband on Litchfield works mathematically because she bats at the top for SRL W and gets four overs of opposition spin to target. Against MSG W, that opposition spin will come through Ecclestone and the part-time options; Litchfield has the technique to take the attack to the spinner rather than play her out, which doubles her ceiling in a captain pick. The risk is that SRL W's middle order has not fired yet — if the top three fall cheaply, Litchfield may not get the platform to build a 70-plus score.
Meg Lanning is the vice-captain pick after playing one match in the current cycle. She is the player fantasy managers should underwrite into their Halaplay teams even with the small sample size, because the Lanning-Mandhana opening pair sets the tone for MSG W's batting card. In a 100-ball format where the powerplay is condensed, an opening batter who strikes at 130-plus is worth the vice-captain armband even with one innings in the bank.
The vice-captain tag, rather than captain, reflects the matchup uncertainty. Lanning has played one match; Litchfield has played two and is in form. In a contest where the platform gives 2x points to the captain and 1.5x to the vice-captain, putting the multiplier on Litchfield's form and the safety net on Lanning's ceiling is the right pairing for a match where the SRL W bowling has shown it can take wickets even in a loss.
The pre-match note lists Headingley conditions as cloudy, 20.1°C, and 84% humidity. That is a cloud cover, late-July evening in northern England — a profile that almost always offers early movement and bounce for the seamers. Spinners come into the game later as the surface dries; the note characterises the pitch as offering help to both pace and spin across the 100-ball innings, which is the standard Headingley read for a day-night Hundred fixture.
For fantasy managers, three points to log from the conditions report:
The most-cited recent numbers from the CricTracker pre-match are SRL W bowled out for 116 (with five wickets taken in the chase) and MSG W dismissing London Spirit for 80 (with a seven-wicket win). SRL W's bowling card is therefore the more reliable fantasy unit; MSG W's bowling card is the one with the bigger recent ceiling but also the bigger volatility, because rain abandoned their last fixture and the sample for 2026 form is thinner.
For a 100-ball fantasy contest, the right read is to weight SRL W bowlers higher in the captain pick pool than the headline 116 might suggest. Five wickets in a chase is a top-order bowling performance — the bowlers gave the batters a chance the batters could not take. Pair that with Jonassen's spin role and Deepti Sharma's all-round points on a surface that helps both pace and spin, and SRL W's bowling becomes a 2-3 player stack worth building around.
The Hundred format gives fantasy managers 100 balls to allocate across batters, bowlers, and all-rounders. The pre-match note flags no injury or availability update at the time of publication, which means the probable XIs are the working assumption. The clean way to think about captain selection in a 100-ball game is the same way you think about a T20 captain: pick the player whose ceiling is highest under the conditions, not the player who scored last week.
For Headingley on Tuesday evening, the ceiling math is straightforward. Litchfield has form and a clear batting position; Lanning has a stronger batting partner (Mandhana) and a longer international record but only one innings this season. The captain multiplier belongs to the in-form player. The vice-captain multiplier belongs to the ceiling player. Build the team around that.
The note lists Headingley at 20.1°C and 84% humidity with cloudy conditions at the time of writing. For Leeds in late July, a 20°C evening reading is on the cooler side; combined with high humidity, that tends to mean the ball grips a fraction more for the slower bowlers and the outfield plays a touch slower than the Brisbane or Mumbai equivalent. Do not read this as a washout risk — the MSG W-Phoenix rain abandonment was Birmingham, not Leeds — but do read it as a surface where 150-plus totals are unlikely and where the team batting second may find the chase tighter than the average Hundred game.
For fantasy managers, the practical effect is that wickets are more valuable than runs. A bowler who takes 2 for 22 in a 100-ball game where the total is 130 is worth more fantasy points than a batter who scores 40 in the same chase. Build the side with three frontline bowlers and two all-rounders rather than the conventional four-batter-plus-one-bowler template.
The pre-match note says no injury or availability update had been added at the time of publication. That is the operating assumption for both sides. Fantasy managers building teams at lock-in should treat the probable XIs as confirmed unless a toss-time update from the official Hundred social feeds changes them. SRL W and MSG W have not flagged any late fitness concerns through the official channels we monitor, and the squads for both sides are at full strength for Match 10.
The single live update worth watching is the toss. The Hundred's toss-time factor is significant at Headingley — the side batting first in the last three completed matches here has gone on to win two. If SRL W bat first under the clouds, their bowlers' wicket-taking card becomes the priority fantasy stack; if MSG W bat first, the Mandhana-Lanning opening pair becomes the priority.
The cleanest fantasy build for Match 10 is a two-stack approach: a SRL W bowling stack (one frontline seamer plus Jonassen plus Deepti Sharma) and an MSG W batting stack (Lanning-Mandhana at the top, plus Ecclestone as the bowler who bats in the lower order). Captain Litchfield from the SRL W stack; vice-captain Lanning from the MSG W stack. The two-stack gives you coverage across both innings — if the first innings is a 130-140 chase, the MSG W batting stack fires; if the chase collapses, the SRL W bowling stack has the wicket-taking points.
For Halaplay mega contests, the differential is the part-timer. Pick the SRL W seam-bowling all-rounder who bats at seven or eight — Sutherland in the probable XI is the obvious name — and use her as the differentiator between your team and the field. Lower ownership, similar ceiling, and a defined role at the death.
The Hundred's first 30 balls — the powerplay equivalent — will decide the fantasy result more than any other phase. Two matchups to log:
The first 30 balls will set up the second 70. Fantasy managers who lock their teams at the toss and watch these two matchups will have the cleanest read on whether to hold the captain pick or pivot before the lock-in deadline.
Match 10 is roughly the midpoint of The Hundred Women's group stage. By the end of this fixture, every side will have played at least three matches, and the form cycle for the season will start to settle. For fantasy players building long-running Halaplay teams through the rest of the women's Hundred calendar, the Match 10 reading is the first reliable signal of whether Lanning-Mandhana at the top is the partnership to underwrite, or whether Litchfield at the top of the SRL W card is the more durable captain pick through the run-in.
The cleanest single takeaway for fantasy managers going into the rest of The Hundred Women's 2026 cycle: trust the bowlers in the early matches at Headingley, Old Trafford, and Edgbaston (the cloud-cover venues), and trust the batters at Lord's and the Oval (the flat decks). Match 10 fits the first category. Build accordingly.
For more fantasy cricket insights, captain picks, and post-match analysis, explore the rest of the Halaplay Blog.
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