Daily Result: £13.33
Cricket is a fantastic sport to trade. Great to watch, plenty of market movement and lots of opportunity for profit if you read a game right. But it does have its drawbacks and today I ran into perhaps the biggest. In the form of the weather. Or, more precisely, rain. And floods of it at that!
The affected match was the 1st ODI between India and Sri Lanka. Which was stopped after 18.2 overs and finally called off several hours later with parts of the outfield resembling a mud bath. Which was just a little bit gutting, not only because it deprived me of an opportunity to trade the game but also because I'd already built up a nice all round green on the match. I'm guessing the 100,000 strong crowd, most of who waited until the end, weren't best pleased either!
Anyway, what was particularly galling was the fact that it's safe to say today's game was the quickest I'd ever managed to build a profitable position without the fall of wicket at the start of any cricket match. Ever! I didn't quite hit the best prices either side but it was possible to lay India at 1.6 and then Sri Lanka at 1.9 in the space of just 8 balls! I got in a short way inside those prices and was around £100 green both sides before the match had really started. From there I managed to add a little to it before the rain intervened but in the end it was all academic as the minimum amount of overs to consitute a result, and match, is 20 overs each. So we got nowhere near it, my bets were cancelled and my profit disappeared back to where it came from. :-(
So that was all a bit of a waste of time. On the plus side though I picked up a fiver or so on the completed match market but after a quick dip in and out decided to just leave it rather than have a liability and have to keep an eye on it all afternoon. Once it was definitely called off I had a quick look in on the Golovin v Bychkova tennis match for a few minutes but wasn't really into it and again made just a few quid. Just felt a bit tired and that's why I'm not doing tonight's Premier League darts too. Not in the right mood and don't want to blow the good start to the month I've had.
Anyway, the good news it there's two ODIs on tomorrow that I can do. And as I caught up on some work today I'll probably do both before heading out for beers and curry in the evening. :-)
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