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See you had a good night last night, nice bit of trading. Had to go to kip at lunch. At what price would you look to lay the draw? or is that too risky

That looks to have sealed the match for Aus, missed getting the ley on in time

Cloudbase

i had just started laying SA again as the wicket came

personally can see a tiny chance of a draw but cannot understand any circumstance in which SA can win

Fundy I see the first ODI NZ / Sri L match starts tom night, are they worth trading or do you stick to the test matches?

So you would say lay SA the less risky?

Cloudbase

ODIs are worth trading but are often highly volatile. Tend to lay any side that goes below 1.3 as a general rule (there are the odd exception) and i never back at below 1.5 - dont think the NZ game is on tv so unlikely to be much liquidity

started laying SA again :-)

Cloudbase

SA at 148/7 need 218 to win from 68 overs at a run rate of just over 3 an over. Run rate this am has been 2.2 with Australia attacking. If and its a big if SA got into the last session then scoring offWarne and MacGill bowling round the wicket into the footholes will be nigh on impossible. Also SA mentality will have them looking to draw not win

You still laying? tryed for 40 but no fill. If you get a no fill do you let it ride or cancel and start again.
So if they can hold on till lunch we'll prob see price shorten more and esp. the draw

Cant see the SA price getting much shorter than 35-40 until tea (and will go out to approx 200 on a wicket) would expect the SA price to fix and the draw to shorten and Aus to lengthen the longer without another wicket

damn

had just put another lay in at 36 :-(

Lucky there, left order in filled just before wicket fell

it was your order i was waiting to go before i put my next one in lol

well done Cloudbase

LoL...... Thanks my 40 order became a block i noticed, just starting to read the order book here, a back on the bid is not always what it seems

Can they do it before lunch?

I wish i had 30k room left on my credit limit - theres a free 30 for laying SA at 1000

i think this is last over - thatll be me too, im going to bed at lunch

Yes me too, will let it run to the end now, catch you later.

Hi all

the perils of not getting your bet closed before the off - had backed the fav in the 12.20 and was well in profit waiting for my lay to be filled and the race started - put my lay back in the system as the horse was pulled down at the first - ouch!!!

Hi Fundy, very unlucky but as you say the perils of in running.
See NZ had a convincing win in the ODI. Had a couple of scalps early on but turned in before lunch

Can empathise with you as been there, done that etc.

BTW. A pat on the back on your Aus win. I didn't stay up as already green but if I had I'd have been very tempted to slam a big chunk of my pot on Aus.

Hi Cloudbase

Nice to see you're enjoying the cricket too. Not too long now before Eng and India start playing.