Proteas look fair value for tour success

Sports betting: For heaven’s sake, England, let’s cut out the sweep shot. Under DRS, you miss and you are out. Just watch a video of yesterday’s shambles against Sri Lanka.

Andy Flower and Graham Gooch, the men coaching the England batsmen, were great at sweeping, but when they missed in their day, they were rarely given out leg before wicket.

All that has changed under the review system, so move with the times, England and play a straight bat. It really is that simple.

The current Test against Sri Lanka was slipping away today and on the back of a 3-0 whitewash against Pakistan, things are not looking great for our once-heralded team.

That’s not where we want to be with the mighty South Africans heading here this summer.

Surprisingly – even bearing in mind England’s dominance on home turf – you can get 11-5 about a series win for the Proteas.

England are 10-11 with the draw for a four-Test series rated 100-30.

With the way the two nations are playing at present, there is no doubt where the value lies.



SEBASTIAN Vettel, whose price for the F1 World Championship hovered around the even money mark before the start of the new campaign, has drifted out to 7-2 on the back of race wins for Jenson Button and Fernando Alonso.
Button’s McLaren team seem to have the edge at the moment which is why the Englishman is 9-4 and his compatriot and team-mate Lewis Hamilton is 15-8 favourite. Alonso is next best at 8-1.



TIGER Woods may have won at Bay Hill on Sunday, but I think the bookies have over-reacted in making him 4-1 favourite for the Masters at Augusta a week tomorrow.
None of the world’s big guns were in opposition at the weekend and Woods will be placed under much greater pressure by Rory McIlroy and Co.



MANCHESTER United beat Fulham 1-0 at the ground where opposing teams are not awarded stonewall penalties and that has seen their price for the Premier League title cut to 4-11. City have had some luck themselves in that respect and are out to 12-5.