weeee cricket world cup picks

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any cricket fans here? guessing not since most are US people but you never know...anyway ill just create a spanners spam thread for my own personal amusement then.

anyway the south africa / australia game starts in about 5 hours. a line above 2.4 for south africa to win looks to be a pretty nice bet IMO. its about 2.48 on WBX right now which I would take if i had an acount set up. only 2.20 at the local betshop in NZ but i might take that anyway.

south africa are ranked #1, had good form recently, australia not so good form recently but still big favourites oddswise. they do have symonds coming back into the team though. i think the game will be really close so time to gamb00l and make it exciting...

[Muzzard]

I'm a cricket fan.

Quite a good bet on SA, I think they'll win - all their batsmen seem to be in form and this game is definitely going to about the runs. Both teams have a fairly mediocre bowling line up.

EDIT: SA just won the toss and are bowling, so it's in the bag. Looks like you got good odds its now 11/10 SA

There's been some odd results so far and I'm leaning towards match fixing lol. Pakistan vs West Indies WTF Inzi and Yousif didn't even look like they wanted to chase

I think Sri Lanka might be a good pick to win

[Muzzard]

I may have to eat my own words, the aussies are off to a complete flyer. Looks like a 350-430 total :-s

[Spanners]

Sick batting performance by Australia. One of the biggest totals ever against one of the best teams in the world.

Indeed it has been a crazy world cup so far, who would have thought that pakistan and india would be eliminated (well india probably)

Luckily when I went to place the bet on South Africa last night it was shut...would have put $50 on them.

Anyway... so Im 0 from 1, Ill be back later with more guaranteed winners!!

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the best odds i have found on the winning team are

NZ 6.5
SA 5
SL 5
AU 2.2

2 of these teams will be in the final, but could really be any of them. If both paying 5-1 Id pick SA over SL. I really think NZ will make it deep (prob runner up) but thats just my patriotist bias

[Knytestorme]

There is no decision to make...Australia ftw before this even started.

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sooooooo wanna bet on the winner, you get aus, i get every other team? lolz

[ensign_lee]

Right. I have no idea what y'all are talking about.

But good luck to ya!

[Muzzard]

27/03/2007 West Indies v Australia

Australia easy

28/03/2007 South Africa v Sri Lanka

Tight, much depends on the toss and the pitch. More often than not the team batting second will win. Unless the team batting first can post a total of over 350

29/03/2007 West Indies v New Zealand

Again dependent on pitch and toss, WI could win on a decent bowling track if they bowl first. However NZ's batting has been strong I think they could knock of a WI total on most tracks of they bat second

30/03/2007 Ireland v England

England obv. Unless they all get pissed the night before :-s

[Knytestorme]

sooooooo wanna bet on the winner, you get aus, i get every other team? lolz

Give me 3:1 and I'm up for $50 on pokerstars

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sooooooo wanna bet on the winner, you get aus, i get every other team? lolz

Give me 3:1 and I'm up for $50 on pokerstars

if youre so confident wont you take even money?

ANYWAY what the heck happened with south africa and bangladesh, crazy stuff. rigged i say