England's Tour of New Zealand Brings Some Great Cricket Betting Action
England’s cricketers have flown out to New Zealand for a tour that is
proving to be a tough one to call for cricket betting followers.
Cricket betting fans are struggling to split England and New Zealand for the forthcoming
ODI and Test series, with the online cricket betting odds suggesting that this tour
could go either way.
England are touring New Zealand on the back of a disappointing Test-series tour of
Sri Lanka and Peter Moores, Michael Vaughan and Paul Collingwood all have some work
to do to restore some of the pride back into English cricket.
Only the weather restricted Sri Lanka to anything more than a 1-0 series victory
in December but it wasn’t all doom and gloom for England on the tour of the
sub-continent, as Paul Collingwood’s side grabbed victory in the ODI series.
New Zealand on the other hand, are coming off the back of a rout against Bangladesh
but their recent Tests against more credible opposition have been less impressive,
losing series’ to both Australia and South Africa in recent months.
An indicator of form could be the Twenty20 appetisers, the first of which gets underway
in Auckland on Tuesday morning before the pair meet again, 48-hours later in Christchurch.
The Black Caps will however, be without captain Daniel Vettori through injury and
Shane Bond, who is ineligible due to his links with the rebel Indian Cricket League.
Those absentees could well tempt most English cricket betting fans into a patriotic
wager and with Alistair Cook passed fit, he will slot into the top of England’s
batting order for Tuesday’s opener.
New Zealand though, aren’t to be discounted. The Kiwi’s made it to the
semi-finals of the recent World Twenty20 tournament in South Africa and their record
in the shortened format is better than England’s with a 42.3% record as opposed
to the visitors relatively meagre 27.27%.
The Twenty20 opener is certainly a quick-fire way to announce England’s arrival
and with plenty of exciting cricket betting in the offing for UK fans, make sure
that you keep up to date with all the action by placing your online
cricket bet with
Blue Square.
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