Archive for November, 2009

England vs South Africa 3rd ODI preview


England’s cricketers head into the 3rd one day international against South Africa in Cape Town with the news that Nottinghamshire fast bowler Stuart Broad will be fit to play.

England went 1-0 up in the five match series after winning the 2nd one day international at Centurion last Sunday. The 1st ODI at the Wanderers was cancelled due to heavy rain.

The seven wicket victory by Paul Collingwood’s men was rather impressive and will provide the tourists with plenty of confidence and belief for the rest of the series.

Broad who injured his shoulder in a practice match missed the two Twenty20 matches against the South African’s and the first two ODI’S. The bowler’s return will be a massive boost to England as he has impressive figures and is the highest in the one day world rankings out of all of England’s, bowlers.

Broad told BBC Sport “The shoulder’s pretty much 100%… and it’s just about pushing for selection now”. “It’s been frustrating on a personal note because you always want to play and when you’re missing matches it’s tough to watch, but it’s been great to see how well the boys have played.

“I don’t think injuries are ever a good thing but it has given me a chance to put a lot of hours in in the gym and get very strong.”

England is also hopeful that fast bowler James Anderson will have recovered in time from a minor knee injury to partner Broad in the attack.

England is 6/4 to win with Boylesports and William Hill while South Africa is 8/15.


X-Factor’s Jedward are favourite to get a number 1 hit!

This year’s X-Factor has caused a lot of commotion as the public continue to support John and Edward Grimes while judge and producer Simon Cowell is outraged that they are still in the competition. As the reality TV show moves closer to the final, the twins known as ‘Jedward’ look like they are set to head to the end! It seems that the more they are criticised on the show, the more support they are gaining from the public!

Louis Walsh is the mentor of the groups and is holding on to the twins with all he has as they are his last act in the competition, but if bookies odds are anything to go by, he looks as though he will be safe for a couple of weeks yet!

Not only are bookies predicting the the pair will go all the way, but they are looking beyond that and Ladbrokes are offering odds as short as 9/4 that they will have a number one single next year. The cheeky brothers were once as long as 150/1 to have a Christmas number one but have had their odds slashed to a short price of 7/1.

A spokesman from Ladbrokes explained, “Anything is possible given the level of public support for Jedward”, and with odds of 7/1 to win the show it seems that they could be in with a chance of being crowned the X-Factor winner 2009!

Ladbrokes are pricing Olly Murs as favourite to win the show at 5/2, followed by second favourite Joe McElderry. Lloyd Daniels is favourite to go this week with a price of 11/8.

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