More Twenty20 rain

Daily Result: £100.72

More torrential rain today not only put the dampers on Wimbledon but also saw today's televised Twenty20 match between Gloucestershire and Worcestershire reduced to another 10 over shoot out.

So the plan was the same as yesterday trading wise. No big liabilities, keep a levelish book and concentrate! Twenty20 can be volatile. Ten10 is just plain madness. A lottery. But great fun! Not the type of event where you want to find yourself on the wrong side of a big shift in prices though.

Worcestershire batted first and Hick got them off to a fantastic start smashing 32 from 15 balls. The old boy's still got it! I know he ain't got a cat in hell's chance and might not be the fastest around the field but if you were picking the Twenty20 world cup squad and packing it full of "specialists" you could do worse than cast an eye over Hick.

Anyway, with Hick's blistering start Worcestershire posted a very respectable 101 from their 10 overs. A tad better than Hampshire's 72 from 10 the other day!! To be honest I thought it would be enough. Price wise Worcestershire were in the low 1.6x range and I thought that was probably too big.

That said, with Spearman and Marshall opening for Gloucestershire there was always a chance of fireworks at the top of the innings so I levelled out. That left me with £100 green either side and I'll settle for that in a 10 over shootout. My thinking was let's just see how Glos get on for an over or two. If it's cost me a few ticks fair enough. But at the decision point I was happy to settle for £100 in such a short game and more interested in sticking to my no real liabilities, keep a level book gameplan. I did try to add to it in the second innings, building it up to £140 green each side before getting on the wrong side of a 2 ball 40 tick swing which left me back at £100 green the pair.

Caution paid off anyway as Goucestershire got off to a cracking start and maintained it to win by 9 wickets with 8 balls remaining. Most the match was played out in the rain so fair play to the captains and teams for going ahead with the game at all.

Which wasn't something that was able to happen at all the day's Twenty20 matches. Very heavy rain caused several to be cancelled. Which as luck would have it was good news! Because it means Nottinghamshire, who I've backed in the outright, ended up with a no result / tie against defending champions Leicestershire. Definitely settle for a point in that game as it gives Notts a point from what looked like their toughest match and leaves them with a table topping 7 out of 9 points from 3 games. Hurrah!

What else? Well, I didn't get round to doing any Wimbledon stuff though I was convinced by this article at Kicking Bets about backing Roddick in the outright with a view to laying at a later date for a moderate profit. So after thinking it all through myself too I've had a £100 on the ARod. It was therefore most pleasing to see him cruise through the first round. More of the same please!