Twenty20 cricket betting fans saw the England cricket team overcome their jet lag and intensive training in New Zealand to thrash the home team by 38 runs in Monday’s Twenty20 match, in front of a 45,000-strong Auckland crowd. This offers good omens for the rest of the series.

Sports betting fans will recall the unexpected One Day Series win against Sri Lanka at the end of last year and know that this England team is brimming with confidence.

Man of the Match, Dimitri Mascarenhas powered England to their victory with a useful 31 and a couple of critical mid-order New Zealand wickets. Mascarenhas is a right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-fast bowler. He holds the record for most runs for England in an over in a One Day International with 30, scored against India off of Yuvraj Singh on 5 September 2007, at The Oval, London.

Online betting enthusiasts will be relieved to hear that Kevin Pieterson is back in form, making 43 in a characteristic, superb display of batting. The whole team is on an up and talking about how cohesive they feel as a side. As Paul Collingwood observed, “We should gain a lot of confidence from this and you want to get on a roll. It’s been a good first week, we put in a lot of hard work in Christchurch and the boys are looking in confident form. Every aspect of our game was pretty good today.”

The Twenty20 format has revitalised interest in cricket but letÂ’s not forget the forthcoming One Day matches and Test Series which will certainly provide a mouth-watering feast of opportunity for some exciting wagers and the many offers of free bets for new customers of online betting sites must be very tempting.