Thank Gawd for that….oh.

hold on…

Noooooo!

Noooooooooo

as you were.

in
out
in
out

Lots of cheering for non-wickets. 🙂

on the plus side – the Aussies were moaning yesterday that everything they ‘missed’ they nicked and it went to hand, whereas when we batted edges fell short, chinese cuts went to fine leg, etc.

They’re getting a fair share of the rub now. So when we do beat them tomorrow, then they can’t complain about luck.

Just need to check the odds again…..funny old game criket

is it?
has he?
wahey!

Yes. Definitely. This Time.

Yessssss?

You could have got 30 to 1 on an Aussie win on this match first thing this morning. Still a long shot but would have been worth a flutter knowing what we know now. Come right down now to 4/1.

edit – might revise that a bit 🙂

4/1

That’s almost criminal. They’re still minus 218-1

4/1 to me means that from this situation, once out of five they’ll win the game. OK.

OK.

– depends if you think bookies have a right to cover overheads and make a profit or not.

there’s two wheels off the wagon

If we bowl them out before they reach our current score – I assume we don’t have to bat?

I do.

But i reckon their one in five chance is more like one in twenty, one in fifty even. And no, i’m not offering those odds……..

Of course, if you want to take it on a 4/1 ticket, be my guest, ‘criminal’ is a hyperbolic statement to make a point and elicit a response, and no-one’s forced to take the odds on offer.

Didn’t mean to cause any offence. They’re all completely honest blokes. just bloody tight-arsed in this particular market at present!

If they were offering 50/1 i’d have a piece. Mainly because I always lose my bets so the simple act of me betting against an England win guarantees an England win 😉

Yes! Left the desk to go change backup tapes come back to 2 wickets.

Danny, I think you should go back to check them. Y’know, just in case….

The ones you put in are no good. Go and change them again.

If we bowl them out before they reach our current score – I assume we don’t have to bat?

You haven’t done cricket before have you?

No we don’t. We win by an innings + whatever the difference in scores is.

I think we should bat again anyway. make them chase the ball for another 2 days as punishment.

in amongst them now!

I do.

But i reckon their one in five chance is more like one in twenty, one in fifty even. And no, i’m not offering those odds……..

Of course, if you want to take it on a 4/1 ticket, be my guest, ‘criminal’ is a hyperbolic statement to make a point and elicit a response, and no-one’s forced to take the odds on offer.

Didn’t mean to cause any offence. They’re all completely honest blokes. just bloody tight-arsed in this particular market at present!

If they were offering 50/1 i’d have a piece. Mainly because I always lose my bets so the simple act of me betting against an England win guarantees an England win
I read an article a while ago about setting betting rates. Really interesting exercise in maths and remarkably little to do with whole their think the match will go. A poor rate means a low amount to pay out (a good thing) but a poor ability to attract punts to put money down (a bad thing). It’s all about balancing the number of people betting each way and the payout. It’s really clever.

edit – all this talk of the odds of the Aussies winning seems to be having the right effect!

hopeless bunch of pussies

Err autoloader threw an error so just missed another wicket. 😆

Yes!!!

Some mighty juju in those back-up tapes!

🙂

Whoop!

Popped for a pee after the one wicket, came back to see I missed another!

Not sure what’s more amusing….
The Aussie collapse, or the idea of Danny having to explain to his boss why he keeps on having to go and check and keeps on making mistakes….!

😀

(Houns, you’ve dribbled a little. Best go back and mop it up).

You can get 50/1 on an Aussie win now – I wonder why 🙂

Danny79 – Member
Well if you’ve got a ticket for Saturday you’ll certainly be smiling.

Maybe if you were looking for a refund…

I’ll wait until after tea to go shake

You can get 50/1 on an Aussie win now – I wonder why

I’d need 100/1 now.

Here we go again!

Embarrassing.

5 down Clarke is history now

🙂

That’ll do