William Hill customers seem confident that England will win the series against Pakistan with bets of up to £10,000 placed on an England series victory at 10/11.
The first test prices suggests that England are 7/4 favourites ahead of Pakistan at 9/4. Alastair Cook is the inform batsman and he is 4/1 to be top first Innings batsmen and 5/6 to outscore fellow opener Andrew Strauss.
Australia have been cut to win the Ashes 2013 according to Ladbrokes.
Following the thrashing of India the Aussies are now 11/4 (from 3/1) however at 4/7 (from 1/2) England remain the favourites on home turf to retain the urn. A drawn series is 9/2.
Sachin Tendulkar is odds-on to score his hundredth 100 in 2012 according to Ladbrokes.
India's talismanic batsman is 1/6 to finally get off number 99 during 2012 and it's 11/1 to happen in the 3rd Test against Australia in Perth or 9/4 in Adelaide in the final test of the series.
After Sachin Tendulkar again failed to score his illusive 100th hundred, William Hill have priced up when he will achieve the feat and he is favourite to fail all series at 6/4.
It is 9/4 that he scores a hundred in the second test and 10/3 the third. Hills are 4/11 that Australia win the series and 6/5 they take the second test.
Victor Chandler make South Africa 2/5 to take an unassailable 2-0 lead in the 2nd Test in Durban on Boxing Day after their innings defeat of the tourists at Centurion Park.
Victor Chandler have opened a market on who will score most Test runs for England in the calendar year 2012 and make Alastair Cook their 5/2 favourite.
A report released today has revealed that over the last ten years, only 3 percent of proven cases of corruption in sport are related to match-fixing.
Doping in sport accounts for 96 percent of the cases and misuse of insider information 1.5 percent after Coventry University's International Centre for the Business of Sport (CIBS) analysed 2,089 cases.
Sachin Tendulkar won't hit his record breaking century of centuries against the West Indies according to Ladbrokes.
The India batsman is 8/11 to fail to notch the ton this series which India are now just 1/50 to win. It's 12/1 the West Indies can salvage the draw.
Shane Warne has officially come out of retirement to turn out for Melbourne in the Big Bash and William Hill make him 10/1 to come out of his international exile and represent Australia in any form of the game.
He is 14/1 to take a wicket with his first ball of the Big Bash and 8/1 to be top wicket taker in the tournament. English cricket fans could well be forgiven for quaking in their boots as he is an outside chance, at 33/1, to play in the next Ashes series.
Mark Cavendish is the 11/10 favourite to win the SJA Sportsman of the Year Award according to Ladbrokes.
Golfers Darren Clarke (3/1) and Rory McIlroy (6/1) are next in the market along with Mo Farah (also 6/1).
Victor Chandler bet 11/8 that England lose the India ODI series 5-0 after their latest defeat in Mohali.
VC Spokesperson and cricket betting expert Charlie McCann said: "An improved display with the bat but the bowling and fielding left much to be desired and it is hard to see past a series clean sweep."
Shane Warne has revealed that he has been inundated with offers to return to the cricketing fold and partake in Australia's Big Bash. William Hill are offering 2/1 that he takes up one of these offers and plays during Australia's premiere T20 tournament.
Having hung up his googlies after Rajasthan Royals' last IPL match, Warne is 10/1 to dust them off and take to the field in India once more and is 33/1 to play for Australia at any form of the game again.
Shane Warne is heavily odds-on (1/6) to play in the Big Bash T20 League according to Ladbrokes.
Warne claims to have fully returned to match fitness and whilst the bookies expect him to turn out in the T20 tournament a sensational international cricket comeback doesn't look likely at 100/1.
Victor Chandler make India 2/1 to win the current ODI series 5-0 after another emphatic win in the second ODI in Dehli and 4/7 to go into an unassailable 3-0 lead in Thursday's third ODI in Mohali.
England are the shortest price they have been to win an India tour in the last ten years according to Ladbrokes.
The tourists currently trade as 11/8 outsiders as the bookies prepare a barrage of patriotic money to follow up their successful summer series against India who are 4/7 to level things up on home soil.
Tim Nielson has stepped down as Australia coach and William Hill are offering odds on who will take over the reins.
Interim coach, Steve Rixon is the 11/8 favourite to take over as the next permanent coach, while Justin Langer is 3/1 second favourite.
