Daily Result: £149.32
Bit of an up and down day today. Won around £250 across a couple of markets on the New Zealand v Sri Lanka Champions Trophy match and then lost the £100 I'd put aside trying an experiment on the Federer tennis match from Milan. The idea behind the Federer loss has been interesting me for a while so will probably do a separate write up on that another day and see if any of you tennis traders out there have any opinions.
The cricket was a strange one. Far too many extras from the Lankans early doors but the dross was detracting from all the early lbw shouts and times the ball was beating the outside edge and pushing their price too far out. So I took a position on Lanka and never really looked back after the first wicket fell. New Zealand were really struggling - so much so that if you took away all the extras from the first 10 overs so they were going along at less than 1 run an over!
Murali once again showed what a genuis he can be taking just four balls to clean bowl Oram when he came on for a spell. Oram just didn't seem to have a clue where the ball was going and the slow mo replays of his wicket showed him trying to play the ball a good foot away from where the Doosra actually went - which was middle stump!
Only a last wicket partnership of 47 from Vettori and Patel stopped the Kiwi's from slumping to an embarrassing score which was not so much to do with a poor wicket but simply good bowling and poor shot selection. A score under 200 also made me a quick £50 on the innings run market which I'm increasingly starting to look at in games like this.
New Zealand struggled on to 165 but it was never going to be enough. Lanka were 1.3x during the innings break. Clearly with a good start without a wicket or two they were going to be around the 1.1x within 4 or 5 overs and that's what happened. I greened out perhaps a little early but wanted to get on with some other stuff and was happy with the end result of around £250 on the match. That said I did notice a 1000 lay and 1.01 back lost in the tennis so perhaps my time would have been better spent there!
Anyway, getting excited about tomorrow. Australia take on England in a curtain-raiser to the Ashes in the ICC Champions Trophy. And if that isn't a juicy enough prospect after losing their opening games in the tournament both teams are desperate for the win to progress to the semi finals. Hope it's a good one!
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