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Betting on the Cricket Twenty20 World Cup

Sports and betting go hand in hand because as people are passionate about sports, they like to wager on their favourite team and try their luck at winning. Cricket betting is mostly indulged in those nations which play this game and which have their national team playing international matches. Large amounts of bets are placed on important clashes like the Ashes Series, Cricket World Cup, Australia-New Zealand and the India-Pakistan matches.

If you have ever tried football betting, you will not find much difference between football betting and cricket betting. You first have to register with a bookmaker/online betting site and deposit the funds – at many sites you can even find free bets when you first sign-up. You can place a bet on different cricket events after choosing a particular match. Once you click on that series you will get a Betslip which lists different options. You can make your selections against the odds offered for the particular match and place your bet. There are different types of matches being played all round the year like test matches, one day matches and Twenty20 matches which are of limited over and get finished pretty soon. One day matches and Twenty20 clashes have greater following as they are of shorter duration and provide lots of excitement to spectators.

You can get different options while betting on cricket. You can place a bet on match result after analysing which team will team. Other bets available for one day matches are top run score of both teams, highest opening partnership, first over runs, team to score the most sixes, first ball of match, method of first dismissal, highest score in first 15 over, team of top batsman and which team will win the toss. You have other such bets for test matches too and if you are able to make the right guess, you win big.

Online bookmakers such as bwin offer odds for important event well in advance of the series or match. You can easily get odds for the 2010 ICC World Twenty20 fixture, Ashes Series 2010/11 or the Cricket World Cup 2011 as bookies offer odds and let you place bets quite early. The odds for the World Twenty20 series given by bookies for different countries are Australia 5/1, South Africa 7/2, India 9/2, Sri Lanka 9/2England 10/1, Bangladesh 40/1 and Ireland 500/1. It is difficult to predict the exact outcome of these events and sometimes you can win big by supporting the underdogs.