World Cup Betting

[Howe_zat]

 

[Victor Ian]

England are on the exciting roller coaster.

 

[vcs]

It seems India's odds dipped a lot in the beginning just because their tournament started late. Weird.

 

[mr_mister]

It seems India's odds dipped a lot in the beginning just because their tournament started late. Weird.

It's decided a bit by the market movements right? People probably lumped a lot on the teams that won their first games convincingly before India even had a chance to show what they could do

England, Australia, NZ and even West Indies might have pushed down India in the mind of punters

 

[GoodAreasShane]

While I still think the Australia line is a bit on the optimistic side, the trend is more or less right. Expectations started reasonably low, gradually building up over the course of the tournament before starting to plateau out as of late.

Wouldn't call them favourites, but am certainly far more optimistic than I was at the start of the World Cup

 

[Kippax]

It's decided a bit by the market movements right? People probably lumped a lot on the teams that won their first games convincingly before India even had a chance to show what they could do

England, Australia, NZ and even West Indies might have pushed down India in the mind of punters

There was also that heavy loss for India to NZ about 35-40 days ago. I remember looking to see if that one had lured a few knee-jerking Boomers back into their old paradigm. A sort of 'juicy English conditions are back at the ICC's behest and will somehow last until late July, India can't thrive with seam' way of thinking.

 

[stephen]

While I still think the Australia line is a bit on the optimistic side, the trend is more or less right. Expectations started reasonably low, gradually building up over the course of the tournament before starting to plateau out as of late.

Wouldn't call them favourites, but am certainly far more optimistic than I was at the start of the World Cup

Personally (and I'm probably going to eat my words here) I can only really see India or England beating us at the moment, and only if conditions are right (flat pitch for England, flat or turning for India). If we get a 280 pitch I see Australia being favourites.

But then I also think that batting first is giving a huge advantage right now and that's as likely to decide matters as anything else.

 

[mr_mister]

TABs website paid out both a FAF and Perera bet I had on being top run scorer for their team early. Why would they do this? Both are only 30 odd runs clear of QDK and Karunartne respectively. Is it meant to be for good will purposes?

 

[NUFAN]

TABs website paid out both a FAF and Perera bet I had on being top run scorer for their team early. Why would they do this? Both are only 30 odd runs clear of QDK and Karunartne respectively. Is it meant to be for good will purposes?

Yeah that seems silly, possibly a mistake.

 

[Howe_zat]

 

[srbhkshk]

Heh, England are back to where they started.

 

[Howe_zat]

It's like a graph of my hope

 

[Daemon]

NZ’s chances go down after qualifying. Love it.

 

[Howe_zat]

It tuns out New Zealand's chances go down after anyone else does anything.

 

[Victor Ian]

I like the way Australia and India's drops are not vertical. It takes time for the horrible reality to sink in.

 

[cnerd123]

only one game left for MM's 175.5 bet to come to fruition

 

[mr_mister]

only one game left for MM's 175.5 bet to come to fruition

And the way things are going/the way people are batting it's basically down to Roy or Bairstow.

 

[cnerd123]

And the way things are going/the way people are batting it's basically down to Roy or Bairstow.

would be impressive if they scored 175.5 combined tbh

 

[Howe_zat]

If Roy and Bairstow score 176 between them then we've won the cup

 

[weldone]

My two best bets in the World Cup so far have been:

1. SL win against Eng (I put some money on SL at an odd of 23 during the lunch break - can you believe it lol!)
2. NZ win in the semis - but it doesn't compare to the above