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England Vs Afghanistan. Afghanistan look to be the whipping boys this world cup. I don't remember them getting to the 50 overs once. England should surely win this with ease. Vince is set to come in for the injured Roy. I'll be taking Archer to continue his form into this match. I'll also have a go at Afghanistan top batsman as you would expect them to go all out once again. 2pts J.Archer top england bowler 11/4 ladbrokes 2pts Nabi top Afghanistan batsman 13/2 betfair

Gary Woodland. I'm sure not many picked him out. Not the best major for me, Scott each-way at 30s but no winner.

Just looking at tomorrows fixture and West Indies against Bangladesh. The 9/5 on Bangladesh looks a great price and enough for me to get involved. West Indies have been so hot and cold this tournament but ultimately, once Hope and Gayle go, it turns into a T20 match for these players. That doesn't always work. Bangladesh have been plenty solid enough in this tournament and so I'll take them to win this one. 5pts Bangladesh to beat W.Indies 9/5 Betfair

Terrible tipping today. Apologies to anybody that was unfortunate enough to follow. I may have to be more selective in tournaments like these. Although I did lower the points on these. Looking at tomorrow for what it's worth.. Fraser Patrick beat Tom Ford in their only head-to-head 4-1 and they face eachother again tomorrow in the morning. The scot lost his Riga Masters qualifier to fellow scot, Donaldson but he played some decent stuff. Ford had some odd results though end of last season. I'll take Patrick on the handicap. Next I'll take Xu Si when he plays the out-of-form Andrew Higginson. Higginson was whitewashed in his Riga Masters match and lost a few matches at the end of last season he should have been winning. Xu Si is in abit of form after hitting plenty of centuries at Q-School. next up I'll take Ian Burns against Scott Donaldson. Burns is a very capable player who I had some success backing last season and despite him losing the last head-to-head 4-2, prior to it he had won the prior 2 including a 5-0 whitewash. Finally, I'll take O'Neill to beat Maguire. O'Neill looked really impressive in his beating of Barry Hawkins and Maguire lost to Liam Highfield at the Riga a week ago. You have to wonder if Maguire will take this event seriously. 5pts F.Patrick (+2.5 frames) to beat T.Ford 4/5 boylesports 4pts I.Burns to beat S.Donaldson 15/8 coral 2pts X.Si to beat A.Higginson 6/4 boylesports 2.5pts J.O'Neill to beat S.Maguire 17/5 unibet

ah just noticed I didn't have the price on Clarke. Few for tomorrow that look quite nice value. Hopefully a few of the coin flip deciding frames goes my way. 2pts L.Hang (-1.5 frames) to beat E.Slessor evens paddypower 2pts J.O'Connor to beat J.Perry 11/5 betfred 2pts C.Zifan to beat R.Walden 7/2 ladbrokes 2pts J.Cahill to beat D.Gilbert 2/1 ladbrokes 2pts M.Xiwen to beat Yuelong 7/4 ladbrokes Li Hang got a good result against Bingham without the need to score big. Slessor looked terrible in his loss at the Riga Masters. I would imagine Hang should be able to beat Slessor without too much lost. O'Connor is looking good right now and although Perry has beaten him in their 2 matches, Joe seems to be getting better with every game. Walden looks quite poor at the moment. Despite beating the youngster Si, he looked shaky and Zifan could pounce on that. Cahill should give Gilbert problems unless Gilbert is in form and I'm not sure this event will be high on his priorities. Finally, Xiwen would give Yuelong a good game on form. Yuelong is playing well, but 7/4 looks the value call.

Annoying day in which all 3 lead and lost. On to tomorrow 5pts C.Steadman to beat T.Pengfei 17/10 sportingbet 2pts J.Clarke to beat R.Day bet365 Steadman in some good form and Pengfei we're not sure of how he will play here. Day just looks awful recently in a spell which stretches back quite a way now.

Rinse.Repeat! Another washout. But, todays game looks to have the potential to start on time and without "too much" rain. England faces West Indies. I think West Indies certainly look like a spot of value today. They have performed really well and could easily come into this unbeaten if things had gone there way. If if wasn't for silly dismissals of Hope and Holder then this would be a much more comfortable match for them. You would have backed them to win with 2 wickets taken in their wash out match too. This becomes abit of a "must-win" now. I'll take West Indies to win this and I'll also take Thomas for the "Most wickets" as he certainly looks the man in form for the West Indies bowling line-up. Finally, I'll take Ben Stokes for "Man Of The Match" I see both teams going low in the order today and a real good match. Stokes could easily get a wicket or two and a good batting performance and a win for England would probably see him named MOTM. I suppose it's abit of a saver bet. 4pts W.Indies to beat England 9/4 Ladbrokes 2pts O.Thomas Top WIndies Bowler 7/2 Ladbrokes 1pt B.Stokes Man Of The Match 14/1 bet365

Qualifiers for this get underway tomorrow. The event doesn't start until August and this is a ranking event. Won by Mark Allen last year, this event has been going strong now for several years. The qualifiers much like the Riga are for a few days and so I'll see what we can find each day for value. 3.30pm matches : Peter Ebdon takes on a man in decent form, Sohail Vahedi. I took Vahedi to qualify at Q-School at a very nice price of 25/1 and he duly obliged and he's scoring well. Ebdon on the other hand lost to O'Connor without even a 50 scored. Worth the value bet here. Meanwhile Shuan Murphy has a 2nd match in 2 days when he takes on up and coming Riley Parsons. I normally wouldn't give Riley a chance but we really don't know where Murphy's head is and for that reason alone 10/1 is huge. 8.30pm matches : I will take David Lilley to beat Ken Doherty. Lilley was unlucky to get Lisowski in the Riga Masters but was still competitive. He was scoring well at Q-School with multiple centuries. Ken's had some poor results over the last year losing 6-1 to Ricky Walden and struggling against players like Andy Lee. 2pts S.Vahedi to beat P.Ebdon 11/4 bet365 1pts R.Parsons to beat S.Murphy 10/1 sportingbet 4pts D.Lilley to beat K.Doherty evens bet365

One to lay this season I think. Anda really could have won by more going 2-0 up but glad he got a win atleast.

4pm matches : I've been reading today that Murphy has been practicing less in snooker and bizarrely he's looking to compete at golf. That can't bode well for his snooker. There is no way he has been practicing as much as he should be. His form has already taken a massive hit over the last year. He performed to a better standard in the worlds but the Riga Masters would not be something important for Murphy and Anda represents value here. Small punt at the handicap also. 4pts Z.Anda to beat S.Murphy 7/4 ladbrokes 1.5pts Z.Anda (-1.5 frames) to beat S.Murphy 10/3 bet365

very much a mug bet gamble ofcourse but : 0.5pts B.Watson/R.McIlroy/J.Rahm all to miss cut 45/1 bet365 Just based on Bubbas awful recent form and the fact you wont need to be bombing it down the ground at this event. Not entirely sure Rory will have a great event here meaning he needs to take more chances. Rahms temperament will be in question when he isnt making greens.

1st round leader 1pt e/w D.Johnson 18/1 paddypower (8 places) 1pt e/w P.Mickleson 50/1 paddypower (8 places) 0.5pt e.w S.Lowry 55/1 bet365 (6 places) 0.5pt e.w b.snedeker 55/1 bet365 (6 places) 0.25pt e.w c.morikawa 225/1 unibet (7 places) Mix of good form and players that have started well in majors.can't wait for this now. I'll also take McIlroy and Rahm to miss the cut. I'm currently trying to find a double of both of those to miss the cut.

I will take a small punt on New Zealand to beat india tomorrow. Both sides are unbeaten and I think it will be a close one but I'll take the value on New Zealand 5pts New Zealand to beat india 9/5 sportingbet

not the best. 1/4 but just a small loss. Looking at the final day of the qualifiers tomorrow 1pm matches : I'll take Lu Ning to beat Martin O'Donnell. never played a head to head but I think Ning is playing the better snooker. He will be disappointed to lose to Donaldson in the world championship but it's all experience for him. He isn't a young player and i think that helps with his composure. I think he will come out the winner here. He has the better form. 6pts L.Ning to beat M.O'Donnell 5/6 betway

ugh another washout. Bit of a shambles.