Cricket Betting
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Cricket betting is one of the growth areas in online sports betting as a whole and can offer highly interesting variations for the online gambler. Often you will find that online bookmakers will offer many different ways to bet on cricket events. As cricket matches can have durations of hours or days you can find that betting on Cricket may offer you the prefect way to add interest to the game.
Let's face it, there is a great choice of Test Matches and tournaments to bet on in cricket. One of the big attractions is the newly created Twenty20 cricket competition and a subsequent Twenty20 Cricket World Cup.
Different ways to Bet in Cricket Betting
Outcome Betting
One of the most obvious ways to bet in cricket betting is to select the team/nation that will win an individual match. This will generally offer the shortest odds, due to the numbers of people who will bet on the outcome and the fact that there are only three outcomes possible from a Cricket match: Win, Lose or Draw.
Tournament and Cricket Series Betting
Sometimes the best cricket betting opportunities arise in the lead-up to an important series or world tournament, such as the Cricket World Cup in 2007. You can find out which games will be played where and when well in advance of the game. If you are looking for the 'safer' bets for cricket, the large nations will often be playing the smaller nations a number of times. By placing your online bets into an accumulator you can increase your return on investment more quickly without huge risks. In a cricket series you can also bet on the likely out come of the overall test: home team win, away team win or drawn series. Betting will also be available on the margin of victory within the Cricket series. As with all tournaments, upsets will happen and these will likely offer the best value individual bets.
Score Betting
It is possible to modify the simple win, lose or draw bet by including prediction on the margin of victory, i.e. the number of runs, or wickets, that a particular team will win by. You can also bet on everything related to scoring from the frequency of wickets being taken, the time that wickets will occur, scoring rates, and bowling figures.
Bet on the Batsmen
Before a match it is possible to find sports betting bookmakers who will allow you to bet on particular batsmen achieving a particular goal. Whether you want to bet on Freddy hitting a certain number of sixes or for a weaker batsmen to be out for a duck all things are possible in the world of online betting.
Bet on the Bowler
Every bowler will end up with statistics that represent their play after every day of play, and ultimately every match. You can elect to bet on the figures that you believe a particular bowler may achieve. So if you feel that the Indian bowlers will achieve six wickets on the opening day's play of the England Vs India Test, or that the English strike force may not take a wicket in the first day of play, you can find the right bet at the right price for you.
Realtime Betting
One of the innovations in cricket betting, and even general sports betting, that has arisen through the advent of the Internet has been the provision of realtime betting. In cricket matches it is possible to open a window on your desktop and bet on the current goings on of the match. You can bet on which batsmen will be out next, which bowler will take the next wicket through to what the final outcome of the match will be. Each of these will have constantly changing odds to reflect the balance of the game.