A buy of England first innings runs in the second Test would have brought in a healthy profit, as the home side, and Kevin Pietersen in particular, piled them on.

The first test was interesting for our punting, and what I propose to do now is to highlight how flexible we must be when trading cricket and how quickly our opinions, sentiments and therefore positions can change.

Take last Friday - the second day. My initial update was to hope England scored well which would drag the draw price into the 2.xxx areas and allow us a cheap lay of the draw with three days to play.