Daily Result: £548.35
It's been a long time coming! 71 days and 10 matches to be precise. But when it finally came it was worth the wait. Sure, it doesn't make up for the disasterous Ashes series. From Harmison's first ball delivery to Flintoff at second slip. To the fact that Shane Warne's series batting average of 49 was bettered by only one English player - Kevin Pietersen. But boy did it finally feel good to get one over the Aussies. And in such a convincing style too.
Finally England had some spirit. Some fight. Some balls. So what if Joyce was dropped twice. He took advantage and posted a magnificent century that set the victory up. Loye finally got one in the head tyring his ludicrous sweep shot to the quicks but still had the bottle to continue before going to hospital. Doesn't matter that he was out next ball. It was indicative of the spirit England displayed on the day. Which was highlighted at its best by Nixon being warned for sledging! I was genuinely laughing out loud. The Aussies moaning about being sledged! Pot. Kettle. Black. As Michael Holding wryly observed: "There's too many one way streets in Australia." Nixon paid due attention to the warning - and was clearly seen on a good 10 second chirp the next ball. Spirit.
Sure the Aussies had injuries. Ponting was out. And Symonds had to retire injured. But it's too easy to forget that the England squad has been decimated by injury for the whole tour. So let's look at more positives from the match. On the whole England's bowling was improved. Plunkett's first ball inswinging yorker to Gilchrist was virtually unplayable. And we saw that when put under pressure it's the Aussies who sometimes crack. So much so that not only did England win - it was so convincing that they even picked up a bonus point. I actually enjoyed watching some of bigger picture Betfair punters nibbling at the England to win the CB Series outright market as the game unfolded!
As for the game itself I made around £485. With such big market swings there was plenty of opportunity to build healthy green postions. And for a long time I kept my greens pretty equal as for a while the volatility was extreme. (The price went from 1.7 Australia to 1.5X England on the fall of Hayden's wicket for example) Eventually though it became obvious England had it won. And the question turned to whether they'd pick up the vital bonus point. Which they did easily in the end.
Made the rest of the day's profit on the Twenty20 between South Africa and Pakistan and the snooker between Doherty and Ebdon. I missed the first 90 mins of the Twenty20 as I'd written down the start time as advertised by Sky which turned out to be wrong. So I only caught around 15 overs. Most of which was the Saffers chase. And as a stunning partnership between Smith and Bosman saw the Saffers price at 1.01 within 7 overs of their innings there wasn't really much I could trade. Enjoyable to watch though as the Saffer's won by 10 wickets racking up a world record Twenty20 international partnership in the process. Made around £45 on the game.
Only caught a couple of frames of the snooker. Was tired and had better things to do on a Friday evening than do the whole match. Got around £20 green either result and just left it. Job done for the day with another good result at the start of the month. Here's hoping it continues!
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