With the Ashes tucked safely away in their bags, the English cricketers are intent on also taking home the Twenty/20 series and the one day series. They got off to a good start in the first game of the series winning by a small margin. This takes England’s record to eight consecutive Twenty/20 wins – not bad for a team that most had written off twelve months ago.

This series will only be played over two games so the Aussies only have one more opportunity to make a dent in the tourists confidence. Online betting continues to support Australia. They were favourites going into the first game and will go into the second game as favourites as well, although only marginally now. Bookmakers have the Aussies as 10/11 favourites ahead of the English team at evens.

In the series betting, England are 1/2 to win the series while a drawn series is 11/10 – with only two games in the series, the Australians can’t win. In the one day series that follows, England are 4/5 to win and Australia 13/10. You will find much better odds in trying to pick the final result. With seven one day games to be played, England winning 4-3 is favoured at 9/4. Other permutations include:

England 5-2 at 4/1
England 6-2 at 10/1
England 7-0 at 50/1
Australia 4-3 at 5/2
Australia 5-2 at 5/1
Australia 6-1 at 20/1
Australia 7-0 at 100/1

Beware the wounded Australians may be good advice. While they have floundered a little in test and Twenty/20 cricket, they are still a team to be reckoned with in the one day form. England on the other hand have still not quite got the balance right between the two forms of the game. With bookmakers offering 5/1 for Australia to win 5-2, that looks to be good value and that’s the way we’re tipping.