A steady day's profit

Daily Result: £118.57

Pretty pleased with today's profit as I didn't get too involved in either of the day's games from the Cricket World Cup. I did follow the first innings of both games on and off before braving the world of fitness fanatics at the gym for the first time in the evening.

Barely looked at the Pakistan v Zimbabwe match and managed one trade for a one tick profit! A green is a green though. There were emotional scenes both before the match during a tribute to Bob Woolmer and also when Inzi was out with players from both teams gaving him a respectful send off from international one day cricket. Spent more time watching the Bangladesh v Sri Lanka game and that's where most the day's profit came from.

Lanka batted first, got off to a good start and the odds simply shrank from a starting 1.2. Never got bigger. I followed them down a little but put more effort and attention into the innings runs market. Used to play these regularly but seldom do any more. Really should be though, especially in these low odds matches as it's where the bigger profits can be made even if liquidity is lower. Going forward I'll be looking to get a little more involved in these.

Tomorrow's match between the Netherlands and Scotland should be a good one for the outright match market though. My pick for an outright bet when looking at this match a while back was Scotland. But I'm surprised at the current 1.57 about Scotland now. A little skinnier than I'd anticipated. Either way, although the quality of the cricket may not be the best I'm hopeful it'll be a competitive game with it being billed as the "unofficial" world cup final between the minnow nations. Hopeful of a good trading event anyway. There should be plenty of scope for some nice price movements.