The Hundred: MI London vs Trent Rockets

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Market context

Polymarket is pricing this MI London v Trent Rockets contract at **0% YES** on USDC-settled, Polygon-based conditional tokens, which means the market is assigning essentially no chance that the resolution condition is satisfied from today’s state. The match itself was scheduled for The Hundred on 8 August 2026 at the Kia Oval, and Trent Rockets won the toss and chose to field, so the live framing is a normal match-result resolution rather than anything unusual at the settlement layer.[4][5][16]

Recent comparable meetings point to a clear Rockets edge. In the men’s Hundred, Trent Rockets beat MI London by six wickets in this season’s earlier meeting, chasing 148 with 10 balls to spare, and Reuters-style match coverage has also noted Rockets’ strong run form and top-three finish momentum.[1] The broader head-to-head record in the last five men’s Hundred meetings is mixed, but MI London have beaten Trent Rockets in two of those five, including tight chases in 2025 and 2023, which is the main reason a zero-price market is not mechanically impossible even if it looks extreme on face value.[10]

For a trader, the key catalysts are the final scoreline, any abandonment or DLS-style adjustment, and whether the competition declares a winner under its playing conditions, because the market resolves on ordinary wins, tiebreak wins, and even forfeits or walkovers.[4] The practical on-chain issue is simple: the conditional token pays out only if the event settles as specified, so late score updates, official match reports, or a correction to the result can move a contract that is already priced at the floor far more than pre-match narrative ever will.[1][4]

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Methodology

This page is a comparison snapshot: one live quote, four reference venues with their key attributes, and a single execution path — every trade button routes to PolyGram, which mirrors the Polymarket order book directly.

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.

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