Stealing Money - 30

[Ken4155]

As i have often made clear on these pages, i am no fan of cricket. However, even i am aware of two things;
a) The Ashes begins on Thursday
and
b) Joe Root is quite an accomplished cricketer.

So when i saw that Willy Hill were offering EVENS (proper odds 2/5) that Root scores over 20 runs in the first innings, i immediately checked his batting average in test matches and saw enough there to have me parting with the usual tenner.

Like all sportsmen, Root does have the odd 'off-day' but to score just 21 runs or more, he doesn't need to be on an 'on-day'.

[brainiac]

Starts on Friday, Ken :)

[Peter Pedant]

He was the one indicted for gay bashing, because the gays he was protecting ( yes folks standing up for) wdnt testify ?

Stealing money - I thought - this might be about Sturgeon and about how she was a stalward of the netters team

[piggynose]

O R, ( brummie speak)
Ashes starts this Friday in the home of the Bears ' Edgbaston' at 11am.

[piggynose]

Peter, you need to lie down, and take a chillpill.

[Ken4155]

brainiac @ 11.45; "Starts on Friday, Ken"

So it does, my error. Thanks for pointing it out else i would have been wondering why there wasn't £20 in my WH account come Thursday evening :-))

[Ellipsis]

England might bat second ... could be Sunday before Root's in ...

[Ken4155]

^
As long as he gets above 20 runs, i don't care when he gets in L:-)

[Gizmonster]

Hmmm ..... I don't usually dabble in cricket, but this one is really tempting.
Watch this space :)

[Ken4155]

Giz, i have been gambling for over 50 years and this is my FIRST ever bet on cricket. As i said, i am not a fan. Far from it. But the stats give this one a very healthy chance of producing the goods, imho, of course.

[Gizmonster]

I'm in :)

[Chairman2001]

What if our Opening Batters do so well, a declaration occurs before we get down to Root (at number 4)?

I wonder what odds you could get on that happening, 1,000,000/1 LOL

[Gizmonster]

England to bat first .....

[Ken4155]

Rooty Tooty gets 20 up, thren they all bog orf for a cuppa and a cucumber sandwich. Good job there isn't another zero on that bet or it'd be squeaky bum time:-)

[Ken4155]

And there's the 21 up :-)

[Ken4155]

I can turn the bloody cricket off, now :-))

[Gizmonster]

Kerching

[Gizmonster]

That's 9/9 for me now :)