BTC Cricket Trading Thread
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Stumps, really impressive bowling attack from India and equally impressive defensive batting from SA, especially Elgar whose taken some hits.
Rishabh Pant has been hilarious too!
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Couple more wickets before end of day and will be a completely different game, step up Thakur!
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Petersen looks a fine player, belying the Test avg of 14 prior to this Test. However, you get the feeling that he might not look the same polished player once he's been roughed up by the likes of Cummins,Starc,Wood,Shaheen,Archer,Haris and potentially Bumrah
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Petersen is starting to show some promise so this could be a crucial partnership for SA but the pressure on this lad will be immense
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Got a back in of India at 1.98 just before tea looking for the breakthrough to come either before or just after tea. The Markram wicket has justified that decision so will now be interesting to see how SA respond after such a promising start.
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got in at 2 and 1.7, 3 strikes and your out Markram, hopefully 2-3 more this session
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yep and i could entertain laying fav in the 1.2's for a swing
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I'm going to start drip laying from here, SA are doing great but we all know the score here, wickets will come and wickets will change the game.
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I think it’s the middle lower order where SA will come undone if nobody in that top 3 really stands up.
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@stuart-wallace I agree and whilst I would definitely prefer to be in India’s camp I can’t ignore Ellgar’s grit and the fact that Peterson although young in his career looks a proper test batsman. and add Markram and Bavuma SA have the guys who it wouldn’t surprise if they got them in a position of confidence. First hour huge.
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33 extras in Indias 2nd innings, hard to see India giving away anywhere near that amount which makes the chase seem harder and yet SA are steaming in, hopefully get them to odds on and that's where i'll be looking to lay
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SA/IND - this is going to be an interesting first hour to trade. India showed you can make partnerships, and i dont think the pitch is as bad as the scores suggest - a lot of batters have got out with over aggressive shots (think Pant), and a lot of strangles down leg side.
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@matt-ayles i'd say the odds are bob on at the moment, be interesting to see how SA can come in, laying them will be my play I think
An early wicket and India could never rise above it's current 1.5 so avoiding that one
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@tom-david-1 said in BTC Cricket Trading Thread:
so that's it, we stand at a 239 run lead
hopefully SA get off to a good start and we can see close to odds on
It's a delicate position isn't it.
I felt that at 1.6 India were a backable price to defend this lead. At 1.5 it seems a little short, however not short enough for me to be confident in the lay...
Think for me a decent opening partnership, push India back up to anything above 1.6 is ok, if you can get 1.8 - 2 that's cracking.
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so that's it, we stand at a 239 run lead
hopefully SA get off to a good start and we can see close to odds on
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@stuart-wallace easy lay
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Carrying on from the NZ/BAN result, would sorta expect slightly better odds on NZ on the second Test than the first ? - being played at Hagley Oval Christchurch , where there has only been 1 draw in 9 Tests, and NZ have only lost once. Would expect NZ to come out a bit more fired up.
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@nathan-bennett 200 run lead comes up, seems like market is holding that as the figure that will be difficult to chase, whatever happens from here I can see massive swings on both
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t20 mode activated still 4 in hand IND
best
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Big Red for me on BAN NZ - guilty of placing a large back on NZ when BAN started their innings, and then going to bed ! Another schoolboy error - at least i am making these errors at the beginning of my journey and not when i am doing serious money . Managed to recover 30 per cent of the Red by getting a good price on LTD on day 4. These type of results (big underdog winning) come along maybe once a year, so, can put this behind me, and look towards a NZ win in next Test, and try to recover some of my losses.
However, in SA/IND test i have have a small Green - the same with ENG/AUS.
One of the things i noticed in the ENG/AUS game is that ENG got as high as 45 at one point, and then quickly down to 15 once a wicket fell - thats a huge drop. Huge opportunity at that point, as surely it couldnt have drifted much further.
