Bettors tip India to beat Aus, win WC

[The_Player]

Re: Bettors tip India to beat Aus, win WC

@GoldenAsif

I know that but I am looking at it from another angle (I am not a betting person).

I do not care about these bookies or self-styled experts and pundits (read idiots like Ian Chappell) or believe in this favourite BS atleast in limited overs cricket.

No favourite has won the world cup apart from Windies (1975 & 79) and Australia (2003 & 2007) - even a layman could have predicted that!!

i.e. only 4 times in 9 previous world cups have they got it right i.e. less than 50% of the time, hence I could not care less about what others think

@ehsan

The same bookies weren’t even giving odds for Pakistan to win the T/20 tournament and India was favourite.

The rest is history.

Its not about bookie’s accuracy. Infact there is a strong lobby (read match fixers) working to make the bookie’s odds go wrong. People make a lot more money if they bet against the bookie/odds and the bookie is wrong.