Summary: Dave chats with Tony "The Badger" Hargraves about the long awaited Ashes series. Tony is a Betfair Trader with a ton of experience assessing the markets and finding a value edge. In this episode, Tony shares not only his different approaches to Twenty20 and One Day Internationals, but he also gives out his predictions for The Ashes. As you could imagine, Tony's got a different approach than most. Punting Insights You'll Find The best trading and betting opportunities across the 3 forms of the game. The one key advantage that can change the game for any punter. What to look for in ODI's to get a leg up on the competition. The major impact that the grounds and weather will have on your games. How to evaluate historical statistics to achieve future success. Today's Guest: Tony Hargraves Tony's Closing Tip: "If the market sees there's no wickets being taken, they tend to back the draw in rather than the team batting first." Get the Transcript: Episode 10 : Cricket Betting With Tony Hargraves Welcome to Betting 360, your number one source for horse racing and sports betting insights. Coming around the bend is your host David Duffield, with another expert view to give you the winning edge. David: My special guest on today’s show is Tony Hargraves, better known as The Badger. Now he has plenty of experience as a Betfair trader, using a lot of different strategies there, a lot of them are involved in play. But also a lot of the work that he does is pregame, and so he uses some stats and other analysis pregame. But also, just a lot of experience in assessing games and assessing the market, and trying to find a value edge there, and he often trades out of that once a profit has been found. So cricket is his true passion, he covers a few different sports including soccer, but cricket is his one true love, and he’s very excited about the upcoming Ashes series. So let’s have a chat with Tony now. David: Welcome to the show Tony. Tony: Thanks Dave, how are you going? David: Yeah very well thanks. I suppose I should call you by your full name and that’s The Badger. Tony: (laughs) David: So favourite time of year for you with the Ashes heating up, or just about to start. And cricket’s one of your true loves, so what do you love about cricket betting? Tony: Well cricket has been my passion all of my life Dave. I’ve actually played it 32 of my 47 years, and I only sort of stoped when I moved to Scotland in 2008, because they don’t really play it there, there’s no teams and I was fairly remote. But now I’m back in London, I’ve looked at joining up with my old team again, and getting into it. But Ashes fever’s really hit over here now, and they’re right into it. I think they’re going a bit overboard with what they think the result is, but I’m sure we’ll get into that in our chat. But it’s just been a passion all my life, my grandfather was right into it, my father was right into it, and I’ve been right into it, so it really is something that I’m very keen on. David: And there’s obviously three distinct formats of the game, so we’ll start with Twenty20. What’s your approach to that? I know for a long time you’ve been a sceptic of the IPL, and been proven correct there, that maybe not all is above board. But just in general terms if you’re assessing a Twenty20 match, what are you looking for? Tony: The IPL Dave is pretty well a marketing exercise for the franchises that own it. And because it’s not a real tournament, it’s not registered with the ICC. They can put it under the same sort of scheme as world championship wrestling you know, or the WWF whatever it’s called, you can choreograph things to suit everyone. So one day you’ll have Internationals sort of drop off of people are against it, but now it’s going to overtake, one day internationals I think they’ll start to drop off, and you’ll pretty well have Twenty20 games and Test matches. But you know I’ve got right into it,
