With the Ashes now just one month away its time to start turning our attentions to cricket, and to start with we will be looking at Joe Root's odds to be top Ashes run scorer.
It will probably come as no surprise to anybody to see that Root is currently the favourite at 7/4 with William Hill to be England's top run scorer over the 5 match Test series. Alastair Cook is second favourite in the betting at 9/4, making it practically a 2 horse race in the eyes of the bookmakers.
After Cook it is Bairstow at 13/2, Stoneman at 7/1, Vince 8/1, Stokes (who might not even be going) 9/1, Ballance 10/1, Malan 12/1, and Moeen at an attractive looking 16/1.
Another popular betting method on runs scored in the Ashes is Spread Betting with Sporting Index. Using Spread Betting, you have the option to buy or sell runs. For example, if Joe Root's predicted spread score is 450 to 475 runs, and you think he will score less, then you would sell his runs.
If you sell him at £1 a run (for example), and Root only scores 400 runs in the series, you would make £50 profit for selling him at 450 runs.
As the Ashes gets closer there will be more markets becoming available, including Australia's Ashes Top Run Scorer Betting, where I imagine it will also be a 2 horse race, this time between captain Steven Smith, and the brains of the outfit, David Warner.
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