Pakistan Tour England: 3rd ODI Betting Tips & Predictions

England Team News

Some of these England players have given the Selectors plenty to think about.

In normal circumstances, the likes of Matt Parkinson, Saqib Mahmood and Lewis Gregory wouldn’t even have been playing but credit to the trio that they’ve made the most of their unlikely chance.

The first two have been excellent with the ball, while Gregory has also shown that he can bat and keep his cool to contribute some important runs.

His well-constructed 40 off 47 was what gave England a decent total and without those runs, it may have been a completely different game.

Add the three wickets for just 44 runs including opener Imam Ul-Haq and you can see why he got the man-of-the-match award.

It sounds strange to say but they could do with experimenting even further, which pretty much means they could play some even lesser known players this time round.

They didn’t go down that route against Sri Lanka despite already having won the Series but the likes of Ben Duckett and Dan Lawrence definitely deserve a chance.

Pakistan Team News

The England v Pakistan betting odds have the men in green as outsiders again and you can’t blame them after what happened at Lord’s.

And by that we mean that they let England off the hook with the ball and made a mess of the chase, which certainly wasn’t impossible.

The problem Pakistan have with the bat is that they’ve become heavily reliant on their Top 3 of Ul Haq, Zaman and Babar Azam to get good starts and generally one of them gets closer to 100.

But all three have been poor with the exception of one good knock from Zaman in the first game and the middle-order doesn’t look up to it in terms of bailing them out after a poor start.

The out-of-form Mohammad Rizwan looks vulnerable, as does Faheem Ashraf who’s so vital as the all-rounder in normal circumstances but is not having much joy with either bat or ball at the moment.

Sarfraz Ahmed can come in for Rizwan and they can play a specialist spinner in Usman Qadir or even Mohahmmad Nawaz.

At least Hasan Ali and Shaheed Shah Afridi were good with the ball; between them they also contributed 51 runs.

Not a bad effort from Numbers 9 and 10 given they were all out for 195.

England vs Pakistan Top Batsman Bet

Recommended Bet: Back Shadab Khan to be Pakistan top batsman @ 24.0 with 10CRIC

What do you do when Pakistan’s big name batsmen are all out of form?

You look for options elsewhere. The good thing about this betting market is that it opens the door to other capable players at far bigger odds who will have every chance if there’s another batting collapse.

Three men coming under that category are Safraz Ahmed, Shadab Khan and Hasan Ali.

Ahmed may not play and though Ali is an incredibly tempting price at 42.0. One of these days he may well top score at those odds from number nine but it’s a big ask. So Khan is our man at very decent odds of 24.0.

He’s done ok so far with scores of 30 and 21. 50 could well be enough to win it and he should bat at five or six.

Today’s England vs Pakistan Hot Bet

Recommended Bet: Back Ben Stokes to be England Top batsman @ 4.7 with 10 CRIC

Stokes had every chance to top score last time after we backed him. He had 60 to beat and made a good start before falling for 22, clean bowled by Ali.

He’s the best batsmen in the team by some distance and this could be the game he shows that. You don’t keep a man like Stokes quiet for too long.