VB Series Preview
Yeah yeah I know its the Commonwealth Bank Series but old habits die hard. Anyway, this will be easy:
Australia will win it. NZ will make the final and lose 2-0. England will come last.
It's hard to see how money can be made from these matches - chances are Aussie will not win all their matches but trying to pick the one(s) they might drop is needle in a haystack stuff. Distinctly unappealing from a betting point of view - Oz are 1.24 favs for the first game against England which maybe is a tad short but I ain't going against them. So it's a case of wait-and-see, hoping one (or both) of the other teams prove to be competitive against the Aussies and pinch some pennies on the price movements.
Logic dictates that the England-NZ matches might be the ones to play around, and it will be interesting to see the opening prices for their first match on Sunday - I'm expecting NZ to be around 1.85 favs (depending on England's performance today). I have a sneaky feeling NZ will save their best for the matches against Oz, so despite their well-documented shortcomings at the ODI game, I'm expecting England to win a game or two against the Blackcaps. NZ will get through to the final courtesy of one win against Australia.
Hopefully I'm completely barking up the wrong tree and the tri-series unexpectedly turns out to be competitive. But I wouldn't bet on it.
P.S. NZ Coach "Comical" Bracewell's latest letter home can be found here at Sportsfreak.
Australia will win it. NZ will make the final and lose 2-0. England will come last.
It's hard to see how money can be made from these matches - chances are Aussie will not win all their matches but trying to pick the one(s) they might drop is needle in a haystack stuff. Distinctly unappealing from a betting point of view - Oz are 1.24 favs for the first game against England which maybe is a tad short but I ain't going against them. So it's a case of wait-and-see, hoping one (or both) of the other teams prove to be competitive against the Aussies and pinch some pennies on the price movements.
Logic dictates that the England-NZ matches might be the ones to play around, and it will be interesting to see the opening prices for their first match on Sunday - I'm expecting NZ to be around 1.85 favs (depending on England's performance today). I have a sneaky feeling NZ will save their best for the matches against Oz, so despite their well-documented shortcomings at the ODI game, I'm expecting England to win a game or two against the Blackcaps. NZ will get through to the final courtesy of one win against Australia.
Hopefully I'm completely barking up the wrong tree and the tri-series unexpectedly turns out to be competitive. But I wouldn't bet on it.
P.S. NZ Coach "Comical" Bracewell's latest letter home can be found here at Sportsfreak.
Labels: cricket
posted by Rob Crawford at 11:47 AM
5 Comments:
Hi Rob,
cracking little blog you've got going here. Always enjoy it. Whats up with the poker tho, are the fish giving you a hard time?
Hi there prekladatel.
The fish are still there - just too busy with the main source of income to play too much.
Have played a huge total of 3 SNG's this year and gone 1,1,3 so the rust hasn't set in too much yet :-)
VB Series? I still occasionally call it the Benson and Hedges World Series.
Then again, I romantically call the NRL the Winfield Cup.
And in my eyes, Ferrari will always be sponsored by Marlboro.
Advertising - it really works.
I'm enjoying the Rothmans Cup domestic One-Day competition at the moment.
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