well done englands young guns !!!

stuart broad and ravi bopara , i had a double reason to celebrate as i shall explain in my personal betting , but i was otherwise engaged in personal matters thursday afternoon , so nothing for me to report on the afternoons racing action .

thursday

OPTIMUM SPORT

k pieterson £100 @ 7/2 top england bat lost -£100
s tendulkar £100 @ 7/2 top india bat lost -£100

PERSONAL TRADING

i had a difficult and trying time during the afternoon and i needed a beer and time to unwind in the evening , i popped round a mates for a beer or two and to watch the odi between england/india , my mate had backed england @ 1.92 and after dismissing india for 212 he was understandably confident .............. but englands reply did not go to plan and although the run rate was no problem continually losing wickets was , this was not due to brilliant bowling englands shot selection and technique were to blame , i decided to get involved when the captain collingwood was needlessly run out leaving england 114/7 , with our last hopes bopara and broad at the crease , well stuart broad was initially a promising batsman like his father but as he grew he took to bowling like a duck to water but he still has ambitions to become a decent number 7/8 in time and bopara has never looked back since carting my distinctly average legspin to all corners a good few years back in a hainault cc cricket week as a 13/14 year old !!! , and in conversation with graham gooch back in 2003 he told me he was the best batting prospect he had ever seen at essex and that included alastair cook who is a few months older but bopara needed to mature as a person before he began to fulfil his true potential , well the winter addition to the world cup squad and his performances had done much to bring him on , and i decided to now put my faith in these two youngsters laying india £500 @ 1.18 a liability of £90 and the stress of my afternoon was slowly erased as these two defied their inexperience to comfortably see england home , and in the process give me a profit of £477.50 .