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Daily Result: £649.53

You've got to laugh. For a while now I've been banging on about the amount of rain we've been seeing in cricket fixtures recently. Or inclement weather as Sky commentators insist on calling it. More was forecast for today's Friends Provident match between Derbyshire and Yorkshire. And sure enough the match was interrupted by the weather. But this time rain wasn't the villain. No. It was the sun. Good light stopped play!!

It's farcical. Here we have a day night game on a ground where cricket has been played for decades. Surely someone has noticed in all that time that the sun sets behind the bowler's arm? Apparently not! So we had the ludicrous situation of missing over 40 minutes of play in a televised match while the sun set. This cut short the game - and kept us sad traders busy later than we should have been. Grrrr. More importantly though it was another embarrassment the world of cricket could do without. It's a day night game. The one scenario in cricket where surely you can get through a game without light hassles you'd imagine!

Anyway, delays aside the match turned out well for me. Picked up just over £530 in a game that was pretty much one sided with Yorkshire never looking like they'd lose. In fact their price never really went above its SP. They got off to a cracking start with the bat and, despite failing to push on properly in the last few overs of the innings, were always still big favourites against a depleted Derbyshire team.

Early wickets in the Derbyshire reply saw the Yorkshire price into sub 1.1 before the sun intervened. following the restart it fell to 1.01 before a fantastic 37 from 25 by Pipe, in a partnership with Botha, saw the price rise to 1.1 again. But Pipe's wicket effectively killed of the remaining slim chance of a Derbyshire win.

The rest of the day's profit came from The French Open. Had a look in on the start and end of the Hewitt v Gaudio match and traded a game of the Sequera v Serena Williams match. Picked up just under £120 in the process and will settle for that!

In fact, with today's result finishing off the month, I'll more than settle for the monthly result too. Well happy with it. The increased stakes strategy for cricket continues to pay dividends and I'll be continuing with it going forward. We're still researching the honeymoon but the extra profit will help to make it all that little bit more special. Can't wait!