2023 ICC Men's Cricket World Cup

[firlandsfarm]

England currently 2.06 to win the toss, have been matched as high as 2.12.

Feels like a thought experiment come to life!

How can anyone be more or less than 2.00 for the toss?! It would make more sense if the market was "who will bat first?"

[firlandsfarm]

Fakhar Zaman is a Big Time Charlie (I remember Champions Trophy Final)


Fakhar's at it again today, punishing the Kiwi's

If/When Fakhar has children are they know as "little Fakhars"?

[Tiesto13]

England currently 2.06 to win the toss, have been matched as high as 2.12.

Feels like a thought experiment come to life!

How can anyone be more or less than 2.00 for the toss?! It would make more sense if the market was "who will bat first?"

Its a good question but something I've spotted a few times. The best answer I have is huge volumes of people in Asia betting on one team or another to win the toss at bookmaker provided odds (best odds I can find currently on a team winning a coin toss with a bookies is 1.91). Then the bookies don't want to have a huge amount of liability on their books for one side of a coin toss so are looking to hedge their position on betfair.

[Tiesto13]

Afghanistan already in from about 6 to below 4 after 3 overs.

[Emmson]

Afghans already matched at 1.01 are not in peril yet but Maxi and Cummins are a decent hope to pull Aus back from the brink.

I've just woke up to this cracker

[Emmson]

WHAT AN AMAZING EFFORT BY MAXI

WHAT AN AMAZING GAME

CRICKET REMAINS THE GREATEST SPORT TO BETFAIR TRADE imo

[Emmson]

Spunk Filled effort by Maxi to bring Aus (matched at a high of 230) back from the brink to victory.

145 Million Matched

Now there is a valley to behold.

[tryingtotrade]

How is there so much more matched on Cricket compared to other sports, 145 million!

[Tiesto13]

That was an outrageous innings. After my initial trade to back Afghanistan on a belter of a pitch succeeded, I had a bit of a speculative trade with some of my profits on Australia at 30/1 when it appeared that Maxwell was in the mood, although greened those up again at 10/1, so left a lot on the table

[Emmson]

How is there so much more matched on Cricket compared to other sports, 145 million!

Asian money using agents/white label sites

[Emmson]

I've seen too much cricket to declare an India WC victory is inevitable, it absolutely is not.

[LeTiss]

How is there so much more matched on Cricket compared to other sports, 145 million!

Asian money using agents/white label sites

Interesting. Do you have much knowledge on white label sites within the exchanges, Emmson?
I know BF doesn't allow 3rd party software, so I'm interested in how all this Asian money gets pushed through the cricket markets

[Emmson]

How is there so much more matched on Cricket compared to other sports, 145 million!

Asian money using agents/white label sites

Interesting. Do you have much knowledge on white label sites within the exchanges, Emmson?
I know BF doesn't allow 3rd party software, so I'm interested in how all this Asian money gets pushed through the cricket markets

No I'm no expert on it at all, I just want it to keep coming, it would be a very, very bad day if they found an alternative.

A good read

https://www.ft.com/content/80987f0c-9bf ... 459ed04726

It seems you can only read the article for free via a betangel tweet

https://twitter.com/betangel/status/1145972881870008320

[LeTiss]

Thanks. I went onto Google and found the article within the Business Telegraph

A fascinating read though.

I have to be honest....I knew very little about it.
I'm guessing BF will have little appetite for closing that revenue stream, if they lose customers in the UK due to stricter affordability checks being imposed

[Emmson]

I want a seesaw game with lots of fluctuations and ultimately a Kiwi win, this white hot India start puts a train on the table