Thatās reach.
Was it FTA in India
Dunno. Iād imagine so.
Thereās a billion quid wagered on an average test match on the subcontinent.
quietly optimistic. To be honest I have been going ape all week up in Wimbledon, the craic is unreal
@Tassotti @GeoffreyBoycott best of luck today crickets coming home with an Irishman leading them to glory
NZ win the toss & elect to Bat.
Fixed that for you
7.6 million euro matched on Betfair on the match winner market.
Box office.
I sense very little hype about this even though England are playing a World Cup final in England
The tournament really hasnāt captured the public imagination at all due to being on pay TV - that and the shameful format which has excluded developing countries
Itās all a far cry from the 2005 Ashes which genuinely did capture the imagination with its free to air coverage on Channel 4
Cricket badly needs to look at it its TV and development models because itās excluding a lot of people, almost by design it seems
Breakthrough for Eng as Woakes gets Guptil, NZ review.
Looks clear cut out call.
Big wicket for Eng as NZ started extremely well.
NZ 29-1
6.2 overs
Trend in this tournament has been team batting first to successfully defend total posted. England need to bowl with discipline here.
England also batted second in their previous two World Cup final defeats
This is looking like a comfortable win for NZ
Iāve decided to support New Zealand in this
Massive call from Morgan here to review, big big wicket
Out
No need to panic for NZ yet
England got Aamir Sohail and Ramiz Raja out early in the 1992 final and Pakistan recovered
Need a couple of good knocks from the upper middle order though
Need to go at least another 10 overs with no more losses too
Plunkett plunders the Black Caps again.
NZ 118-3
26.5 overs
NZās first boundary for over an hour
And like the buses, two in a row