Daily Result: £90.64
Had a go at this morning's Twenty20 between New Zealand and Sri Lanka. Cracking stuff even if the much threatened rain eventually turned up handing Sri Lanka victory on a Duckworth Lewis calculation.
New Zealand won the toss and batted first, promoting McCullum up the order to join Fleming. It was spectacular stuff to watch as the two cut loose from the first delivery smashing the ball to all corners of the ground.
In domestic English Twenty20 the holy grail for many batting sides is to make 60 off the first 6 overs. Fleming had McCullum had 49 from 4 and 66 from 6 - without the loss a wicket. Naturally their price plunged from around 1.9 to a low of around 1.3ish before wickets started to fall. I followed the price down but was only trading in half stakes today.
Wickets obviously slowed the run rate, rain didn't help but it was really the spinners and poor shot selection that then did for New Zealand. And although a score of 162 was just above what the commentators believed the Kiwi's would be happy with at the start of the innings, given they had such a great start it was a little disappointing.
Especially as Sri Lanka got their innings off to a cracking start too. Runs flowed quickly too and a couple of dropped catches meant Sri Lanka were ahead on the Duckworth Lewis calculations once they'd reached the 5 overs that constituted a match. Shortly after the rain got so heavy the players left the pitch never to return. The result? A recalculated Sri Lankan win by 18 runs.
I'd been taking a pretty low risk approach to the match keeping the stakes low and my green pretty level. The early finish deprived us off some good trading opportunities as the Lankans made good progress but £90 is £90 and I'd have settled for that when I switched the tv on at 6am this morning.
Anyway, great to get another fix of Twenty20 but that's it until the New Year now. There's some overnight test match action after Christmas but for the time being I'll probably settle for the darts. Hope to have a look in later today at some point. Certainly want to try and catch the Colin Lloyd v Raymond Barneveld match even if it's just to watch. Should be a cracker but reckon Barney will pull through. At least hoping he will. Would love to see a Barney v Taylor final. That would be some match!
Popular links: Betfair trading software .....Bet Angel..... Free software trial
No comments:
Post a Comment