In our sports diary for Tuesday 18th June we focus on the outright betting for Super Rugby and the early handicaps for this weekend’s quarter finals. Host nation England are in action in the Cricket World Cup, Copa America and Womens World Cup football continues and it’s Day 1 of Royal Ascot.
Super Rugby
After the dust settled on the final round of the Super Rugby season the composition of the play offs sees the Crusaders host the Highlanders, Jaguares have home advantage against the Chiefs and the South African representation are in Australasia as the Bulls head to Wellington to take on the Hurricanes and the Sharks go to Canberra to take on the Brumbies.
The outright betting to lift the trophy now looks like this.
Crusaders 11/20
Hurricanes 4/1
Jaguares 9/1
Brumbies 12/1
Chiefs 20/1
Bulls 28/1
Sharks 33/1
Highlanders 40/1
In the early handicaps for the quarter final match ups the Crusaders are currently 14.5 point favourites for the Highlanders game and Jaguares are 3.5 point favourites for their match up with the Chiefs. The Bulls have been allocated a 12.5 point start for their visit to the Canes and the Sharks have a 7.5 start at the Brumbies.
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Cricket World Cup
Tuesday’s action in the Cricket World Cup is a real David and Goliath clash as hosts England meet Afghanistan at Old Trafford, Manchester. England have 3 wins and 1 defeat to show for their efforts so far whilst Afghanistan have yet to threaten anything like a surprise and a 9 wicket loss to the Proteas at the weekend leaves them looking for their first points return of the tournament. We have a full match betting preview on this link and we fancy Jonny Bairstow will be a key man for England and beat his Player Performance quote. Bet on England v Afghanistan.
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Football
COPA America is being streamed live on World Sports Betting TV and at 23:30 on Tuesday Bolivia clash with Peru and in the early hours of Wednesday morning host nation Brazil are in action against Venezuela.
Brazil put a marker down with a 3-0 win over Bolivia in their opening match and all the goals came in the second half with Coutinho scoring the first 2. Brazil are 1/6 favourites to make it 2 wins from 2 against a Venezuela side who held Peru to a 0-0 draw in their first outing. Brazil are 12/10 to win 1-0, 2-0 or 3-0 in our Multiscores market. Click here for all the betting options.
Brazil are also in action In the Women’s World Cup on Tuesday when they take on Italy in Group C. Italy currently top this group with 2 wins from 2. Brazil have 1 win and 1 defeat to show for their efforts so far, an identical record to Australia who are overwhelming favourites to beat Jamaica in the other match in this quartet. Brazil are currently favourites at 27/20 although the draw looks a big runner at 47/20 and Italy can be backed at 19/10. Click here to bet on Italy v Brazil.
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Horse Racing
Local horse racing comes from Scottsville where the first of 8 races jumps at 12:25.
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In the UK Royal Ascot gets underway and 3 Group 1 races are on the card including an open looking Queen Ann Stakes where we currently go 4/1 and better the field. The Kings Stand Stakes sees Battaash (2/1) and Blue Point (3/1) jostling for favouritism whilst Phoenix Of Spain (17/10) and Too Damn Hot (5/2) are the market leaders for the St James's Palace Stakes.
Aside from betting on the actual races Aidan O'' Brien is 11/20 to be top trainer at the Royal meeting ahead of John Gosden who can be backed at 7/2. Ryan Moore is also a warm order at 5/10 to be top jockey with Frankie Dettori an 11/4 chance.
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Tennis
We finish with tennis and amongst the attractions for punters this week’s the ATP Halle in Germany sees Roger Federer in action in a tournament which he tends to dominate.
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Note, all odds quoted are subject to change.
Have a great day punting.
