Daily Result: £160.41
Wow. What a great finish to a cricket match. Cracking stuff. With small fortunes no doubt won and lost even on the last four balls as the price yoyoed from 1.29 out to 1.75 and back into 1.01. Not for the faint hearted! But great to watch. After a poor start this ICC Champions Trophy is really throwing up some fantastic games now.
As you might expect when India play in India the crowd at Ahmedabad was more than a little up for game! Don't think I've ever heard such a loud cheer for a wide when, with Sehwag facing the first ball of the match, it sailed down the leg side to get the scoreboard ticking over. But the West Indies managed to quell the crowd, and then silent it completely as they followed up their recent surprise win over world champions Australia with another victory over India. Proof again that it can be costly to underestimate the Windies in the one day form of the game.
India started the match well with a good first few overs but those who argued their price was too short before the game were soon looking right as early wickets fell. Tendulkar was also lucky to survive an LBW shout on 14 - which was clearly out - before going on to make 29.
From early on I decided laying India was the way forward but again my timing was wrong. For example, I laid at 1.87 and had to back it again at 1.54 when a stop loss on the trade was reached. Only for a wicket to fall a few overs later. The thinking behind the original lay was if another wicket fell at the times I decided to lay there would be a huge swing in prices. Whereas if no wicket fell there would be a slowish shortening of the India price. Right idea. Wrong timing.
Anyway, the Indians made their way to 223 in their 50 overs. Strange innings. Especially from Dhoni who probably left it too late to start the end of innings hit out. The crowd were certainly impatient as he dabbed the ball for dots and ones when boundaries were desperately needed.
The Windies innings made for great trading though for parts of it I was levelled out green and getting on with other stuff. The key was a match-winning 4th wicket partnership between Sarwan and Morton which left 7 wickets in hand to knock of the required runs at the end. Though the Windies nearly blew it by letting the run rate creep up to over a run a ball before losing 3 wickets in quick succession.
Towards the end I was laying the Windies at 1.0x (and taking out tie insurance!) as they were making hard work of the last 20 runs or so. Unfortunately I was not letting the lays run long enough as, by the start of the last over for example, with the Windies needing 5 runs, their price was fluctuating between 1.29 and 1.35. I thought the latter was a huge price - until the first ball produced a wicket and it flew out to 1.54. A dot ball followed and the price was 1.7x! Lots of money to be made for those with balls of steel but by then I'd settled for my final position and was just enjoying the game. And a fantastic finish it was too with a single and a four wrapping up the Windies victory with two balls to spare!
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