Crik: Australia unprecedented favourites for Ashes success...

AAP Sports News (Australia), July, 2001

AAP Sports News (Australia) 07-13-2001 Crik: Australia unprecedented favourites for Ashes success LONDON, July 13 Reuters - Australia is being quoted by leading British bookmakers at unprecedented odds of 25-1 on to win the current Ashes cricket Test series against England. William Hill spokesman Graham Sharpe said: "I can't remember odds that short for a side that's not on home territory. "It's unprecedented.

No one else would have been hotter favourites in a Test series, even in England's gloom-and-doom days." He added that, with winnings still taxed in British bookmakers, punters would lose even if they bet correctly on an Australian series win. Internet and overseas betting, by contrast, is not taxed but Sharpe said there had been no...

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