Weekly Articles "Road to Riches" by Rich 'Tighty' Prew
The Road to Riches Weekend of 28th-29th June
Coming up this weekend
- Horse Racing, On the flat at Chester, Doncaster, Lingfield, Newmarket and Windsor on the flat and on the all- weather at Newcastle
- Cricket, England’s test series against India continues at Edgbaston next week
- Formula One, the Austrian Grand Prix
- Rugby Union, the British Lions series in Australia continues in Brisbane next Wednesday against the Reds.
- Golf, The John Deere Classic on the USPGA Tour and the BMW International Open on the DP World Tour.
- Tennis, Wimbledon next week
Free Tip
F1 Austrian Grand Prix Sunday 2pm
FI returns for the summer European race season beginning in Austria this weekend.
After Norris’ late race error in Canada, Piastri’s championship lead is 22 points over his team-mate with Verstappen a further 21 points behind.
Ten races into the season Piastri has won 5 races Norris and Verstappen two each whilst Russell/Mercedes got on the board in Canada.
With 14 races to go in the season Canada was far from a fatal blow to Norris' title hopes, but it makes his life much harder against a team-mate who on balance has had the edge on him so far this season.
The Austrian Grand Prix at the relatively new Spielberg track is the shortest on the calendar and only has seven real corners. Three consecutive DRS zones from the last corner all the way to Turn 4 mean there is always plenty of overtaking action, and this should be a McLaren race given their straight-line speed.
Especially important is turn 3, a ninety-degree right-hander at the end of a long straight and DRS Zone which year after year has seen overtaking incidents and controversy. Given that both Verstappen and Norris are somewhat less pragmatic than Piastri, at the margin there is the possibility of more drama at this corner this year. Russell won in Austria last year after Norris and Verstappen collided there while contesting the lead.
I regard it as a decent chance that the top three (McLaren x 2, Verstappen) don’t all make it home without incident. As such I am interested in each-way opportunities but only at those firm that offer three places. The betting market splits between 1/3 1,2 and 1/5 1,2,3. The firms offering the latter include Bet365, William Hill and BetVictor.
Odds for the race are as follows:
Piastri 7/4
Norris 9/4
Verstappen 7/2
Russell 8/1
Bar 16/1
Given the risk of incident in front of him, I do like the 8/1 each-way Russell. We do need that third place though.
10 points each-way George Russell 8/1 (1/5 1,2,3) Bet365, William Hill, BetVictor
Is Bazball growing up?
I had England as favourites before the test series against India. They don’t lose many series at home (only three out of 33 since 2008) and for a visiting side to win in England generally requires a settled team. With two great champions in Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma having just retired, India have not got that settled side.
We’ve just seen a fantastic first test in Leeds, England chasing 371 to win in the final session. They logged their second highest successful run chase in men's Tests and the tenth highest Test run chase of all time.
Ben Duckett’s brilliant 149 was the cornerstone of a remarkable run chase, comfortably the finest innings Duckett has played. His Test average (437) is now better than England openers of recent vintage - Atherton, Strauss and Gooch, and neck and neck with Trescothick.
England have now chased down a target of 250+ six times in McCullum/Stokes/Bazball regime Tests, as many times as all other teams combined.
This compares to the following from recent notable teams:
Dhoni's India - 4
Lara's West Indies - 3
Ponting's Australia - 3
India lost from 430-3 after the first four sessions, with collapses of 7-41 and 6-32 in their lower order batting in the two innings and they fielded poorly with multiple dropped catches and with completely unthreatening support bowling. They became the first Test side in history to lose a game where they had five centurions.
No England captain has chosen to bowl first more often than Ben Stokes and England have gone onto win 8 of those 11 Tests. He probably made the wrong toss decision on Day 1 but helped by India’s mis-steps and the excellent controlled run chase got the win anyway.
During the game England had a much more measured approach at times, particularly digging in to see off India’s one world class bowler Jasprit Bumrah. In a sense therefore we were watching Bazball, previously attack at all costs in all situations, grow up before our eyes. If this persists, it will make England a much more formidable team ahead of this winter’s Ashes.
Given that Bumrah is expected to play only two of the four remaining tests and how average the rest of the India bowling looks it is hard to see anything other than a England series win this summer.
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The Road to Riches Weekend of 21st-22nd June
Coming up this weekend
- Horse Racing, On the flat at Ascot, Ayr, Haydock, Lingfield, Newmarket and Redcar and over the jumps at Bangor-on-Dee.
- Cricket, England’s first test against India continues in Leeds
- Rugby Union, the British Lions series in Australia begins in Perth next Friday against the Western Force.
- Golf, The Rocket Mortgage Classic on the USPGA Tour and the Italian Open on the DP World Tour.
- Tennis, ATP Mallorca Open and Rothesay International Championships
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Surrey v Middlesex Vitality T20 Blast, Friday 6.45pm (Live on SkySports)
A London derby in the South Group of the T20 Blast on Friday night at the Oval.
Middlesex sacked their coach Richard Johnson this week and have a terrible record in this competition over several years. Before this season they hadn’t won a game for two years. Bolstered by the recruitment of Kane Williamson as an overseas for this competition this season they are only slightly improved with just a two wins and a tie in their seven games so far. Thursday night saw a one run winn against Essex.
Unsurprisingly Surrey are heavy favourites to win this game. They began their campaign with a loss away to Somerset but have won five of their next six games to climb to top in the South group table just ahead of Somerset who have a game in hand as I write. Surrey’s most recent wins were at Hampshire on Tuesday and home to Sussex on Wednesday.
Surrey have a very experienced star-studded team of experienced T20 franchise/International players.
The current batting line-up (even missing Pope and Jamie Smith with England and the injured Dan Lawrence) reads: Jacks, Sibley, Roy, Sam Curran, Evans, Tom Curran.
Sibley apart it’s a bit “boom or bust” but on good pitches at home good-to-high scores are a likelihood such as the 210 scored on Wednesday night.
The bowling line-up is probably the strongest in the competition. Jordan, Sam Curran, Santner, Topley and Nathan Smith is a highly skilled T20 bowling attack, four of whom have taken 8-12 wickets in the competition so far in around 20 overs bowled at averages of under 20.
For a number of years Jason Roy opened the batting for England in both white ball formats and travelled the world playing franchise tournaments from the IPL, BBL to Asia and the Caribbean.
12 months ago as he hit his mid-thirties his 170-match England career appeared over and the franchise opportunities began to recede as his form had fallen off. There was still the occasional explosive inning but these were rarer amongst the failures. Flaws in technique against the moving ball mean he is far better on flat tracks where he can trust his eye for power-hitting.
This season he has been playing more for his original team Surrey, even in the 4-day County Championship for the first time in six years.
His form in this season’s Blast began very strongly with three fifties in five innings. He is the third highest scorer in the tournament with 265 runs in seven innings despite two failures this week.
Odds for Surrey top batsman are as follows, led by Jacks back from Mumbai Indians and England duty.
Jacks 5/2
Roy 100/30
Sibley 4/1
S Curran 9/2
Evans 13/2
Bar 10/1
With the all-rounders starting at number 4 in the line-up, this isn’t a particularly deep line-up. If Jacks/Roy or both come off they’ll outscore the more pedestrian Sibley. Both Jacks and Roy can be inconsistent but the better value is Roy.
10 points Jason Roy top Surrey batsman at 100/30 with Bet365 and Ladbrokes/Coral, 16/5 William Hill
Trade Wars
2025 has been a year of Geopolitical uncertainty, trade wars and tariffs. In Cricket, the global game and particularly the crowded worldwide franchise T20 circuit has begun to see disputes of its own, particularly with the Pakistan Super League going head-to-head with the IPL on cricket’s calendar during T20 circuit's availability window where no International cricket coincides with franchise competitions.
The T20 ecosystem is now so complex that we're seeing the introduction of what economists call non-tariff barriers (For Pakistan players these have existed for some time with reference to the IPL). Hence Corbin Bosch, having broken an agreement with to plkay for Peshawar in order to be in the Mumbai Indians squad, is now persona non grata in the PSL for the next 12 months.
This mirrors the sanction imposed by the IPL on players who bail out of lucrative contracts at short notice notably England’s Harry Brook who pulled out of the IPL just before it started this year and now has a two-year IPL ban.
The BCCI being the BCCI, and the IPL being as important as it is rewriting the regulations whenever is convenient is certainly possible in the future even if one thing that appears very unlikely to change is seeing a Pakistani player in the IPL.
For T20 International quality players, sporting frequent flyers like no other, they move on from India and Pakistan to T20/Hundred tournaments in the Caribbean, USA and England before the summer is over and then onto South Africa, Australia and Bangladesh in the autumn and winter. Lucrative it certainly is, career-lengthening it probably isn’t.
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The Road to Riches Weekend of 14th-15th June
Coming up this weekend
- Horse Racing, On the flat at Bath, Chester, Leicester, Sandown and York and over the jumps at Hexham and Uttoxeter. Royal Ascot next week!
- Cricket, England’s test series against India begins in Leeds next week
- Rugby Union, the Gallagher Premiership final between Bath and Leicester
- Formula One, the Canadian Grand Prix in Montreal
- Golf, The Travelers Championship on the USPGA Tour.
- Tennis, ATP HSBC Championships at the Queens Club and the Halle Open
Royal Ascot
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Bath v Leicester Gallagher Premiership final 3pm Saturday
In the regular Gallagher Premiership season Bath finished 11 points clear at the top ahead of Leicester, undoubtedly strong favourites here to win their first Premiership title in 29 years having lost last year’s final to Northampton, and the biggest favourites for a single final game since the dominant Saracens team of 7-8 years ago.
Were they to do so they would be the sixth different Premiership winner in the last six years and produce a treble this season: the Premiership Cup and the European Challenge Cup have already been secured. All of this just three years after they finished bottom of the league and fortunate to avoid relegation.
This season has been a culmination of a process of huge investment under owner- entrepreneur Bruce Craig that has seen the recruitment of a playing squad including a marquee player such as Finn Russell, attracted back from the riches of Racing92 in the French Top 14.
Bath won 14 of 18 Premiership games this season with both the most potent attack and conceding the fewest points before beating Bristol at home in the semi-final last weekend 34-20 from 13-6 down at half-time. Bristol started the game like a steam train but with their depth and dynamism, Bath have staying power. They scored 4 tries in 19 second half minutes. They've now scored 56 second-half tries in the Premiership and conceded just 18.
Leicester finished 8th last season, their first since the coaching team left to join England. Under Australian coach Michael Cheika in what will be his only season in charge the Tigers recovered to finish second this season with the second-best defensive record in the league (a very good press/pressure defence). This year the playing style has developed to attach a more potent wide attacking game onto their traditional strengths in the forward game and the kicking/territorial game marshalled by fly-half Handre Pollard. The mid-season recruitment of Adam Radwan the then Newcastle winger has given them a cutting edge.
They beat Sale 21-16 in last week’s semi-final despite an off kicking day from Pollard.
With Cheika leaving this is also the end of a playing era for the Tigers. 100+ International cap players Cole and Youngs are retiring and Pollard and Montoya are playing elsewhere next year.
Bath are 9.5-point favourites to win here (Bath 1-4, Leicester 3-1 outright), down from -10.5 when prices went up after last weekend. They’ll hope for a fast and open game and even though Leicester have a more rounded style these days they’ll be focussing on field position, forward power and defence.
I expect Bath to win, and three weeks ago these two teams, both at full strength, met in Leicester with Bath winning 43-15. Bath scored 19 unanswered points in the last 13 minutes to break open a 24-15 game with a breakaway from an opposition line-out and an interception try, to produce a flattering winning margin. Nevertheless even without their second half mistakes in that game Leicester need to withstand Bath’s huge second half strength that they have shown consistently all season.
10 points Bath -9.5 points at Evens Bet365, 10/11 generally.
Attack.
The Gallagher Premiership has been much maligned since 2022 when the collapse of three teams in one season plunged the league into a crisis.
It’s been a difficult time since for the domestic competition. Promotion and relegation remains absent with only one of the 12 Championship sides able to meet the demands of stadium criteria which only exist in rugby and big wins suggested that the depth and quality across the league was lacking.
That has continued even recently. Last month Saracens put 75 points past Newcastle Falcons and Gloucester slammed the Exeter Chiefs 79-17.
However exciting close games with attacking rugby are becoming much more commonplace. Leicester Tigers beat Sale Sharks 44-34, Northampton Saints beat Bristol Bears 48-31, and the Bristol Bears completed the league-double over table-topping Bath in Cardiff winning 36-14.
Simultaneously, after several years of being mostly uncompetitive in the European Champions Cup without the salary cap flexibility afforded to the French teams and the Academy pipeline available to Leinster, Northampton went to Dublin and beat Leinster as 33-1 single game underdogs in the semi-final of this year’s competition against a side containing 12 British Lions, a double World Cup-winning Springbok and an All Blacks regular to make the Champions Cup final. Fellow Premiership side Bath have also reached a European final in the Challenge Cup.
The Premiership is beginning to rebuild the image of the English game.
TNT Sports have been so entertained by the rising attacking outputs that they’ve signed on for another five seasons until the end of the 2030/31 season. Around that, viewing figures are back on the rise, with this season posting an 11% increase on this time last year and a 22% increase on the 2022/23 season.
In an era of declining TV deals across most sports other than football, it is understood that the new deal with TNT is significantly larger than the current one, which will greatly help the clubs, too.
The new style of attacking tactics is bringing people back to rugby, which will again pump money back into the clubs.
80,634 turned out for Harlequins’ annual ‘Big Game’ event this year, and in May 51,095 went to Cardiff for Bristol v Bath and 60,000 watched Harlequins with Gloucester.
The big one for this is the showpiece Premiership Final, and it was confirmed a month before the game that it had sold out before the end of the regular season for the first time in the competition’s history.
The English league is by no means perfect, though. Promotion and relegation have virtually gone out of the window despite there still being systems in place for it, and it’s far too easy to qualify for the Champions Cup, with eight of the 10 clubs involved entering the premier competition.
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The Road to Riches Weekend of 7th-8th June
Coming up this weekend
- Horse Racing, On the flat at Chepstow, Doncaster, Epsom including The Derby, Lingfield and Musselburgh and over the jumps at Hexham and Worcester.
- Football, England’s World Cup Qualifier in Andorra on Saturday
- Cricket, the England T20 series against the West Indies continues on Sunday in Bristol
- Golf, The US Open at the Oakmont Country Club next week.
- Tennis, ATP Libema and Stuttgart Opens
Royal Ascot
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England v West Indies First T20I, Durham Friday 6.30pm
After the 3-0 England ODI series win comes a three-match T20 series beginning Friday in Durham before moving to Bristol and Southampton ahead of the start of the India test series on 20th June.
Unlike their travails in the ODI format England have been a much more consistent team in the T20 game, currently third in the ICC World rankings. The West Indies rank 5th, which is consistent with them having a deeper team in T20s being able to call on various global franchise game participants and being able to field a much more experienced XI in most T20 series.
England beat the West Indies 3-1 last November away in T20s, then lost 4-1 in India in February.
Jamie Overton is ruled out with a broken finger so England go into this mini-series with a 14-man squad containing four recent IPL players including an IPL winner in RCB’s Phil Salt, alongside Jacks, Buttler and Bethell.
At the time of writing for player market betting purposes I will take a stab at what the England line-up will be on Friday night.
I alight on:
Salt, Duckett, Buttler, Brook, Bethell, Jacks, Dawson, Carse, Rashid, Potts, Mahmood though that might be a spinner-long and a seamer-short given a mixed weather forecast.
The West Indies have recalled Jason Holder and Andre Russell to give their T20 team a much more experienced look compared to the current ODI team. Sherfane Rutherford came back from the IPL to score a 71-ball 70 at the Oval on Tuesday and Test captain Roston Chase is also in the squad. Of the big guns only Nicholas Pooran is rested.
In the Top England batsman market we have:
Buttler and Duckett 100/30
Salt 7/2
Jacks 4/1
Brook and Banton 9/2
Bethell 9/1
Bar 28/1
We have to accept that the shorter the format, the higher the variance, but also in most matches there is a huge premium on selecting from batsmen in the top 4.
Phil Salt has spent the last two months at the IPL, opening the innings and hitting from ball one. Having returned home last week for the birth of a child he flew back for the IPL final in Ahmedabad on Tuesday and I assume is on the way to Durham for the first game of this series.
In the 2025 IPL Salt batted 13 times, 403 runs at 33.5 and a very high 176 strike-rate with four fifties, 48 Fours and 22 Sixes. Therefore he’s recently had a “top batsman” winning type of score in 1 of 3 matches.
In his T20I 43-match career (1,193 runs at a strike rate of 164) he has 8 scores of 50+ so 1 in 5 so his recent form is better than that which makes sense. He’s beginning to hit his prime.
Of the others in the England top five:
Duckett is only 17 matches into his international career in the format, just 2 fifties. Jos Buttler has 27 scores of 50+ in 134 matches, Harry Brook 4 in 44, Jacob Bethell 2 in 10.
10 points Phil Salt Top England batsman at 4/1 with SkyBet, 18/5 BetVictor, 7/2 Bet365, 100/30 Ladbrokes/Coral, 16/5 William Hill.
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It has just been announced after I sent this through that Salt will miss the series on paternity leave, so time to pivot.
This will mean Banton will probably open with Duckett, with Buttler and Brook to follow
New prices are
Buttler 3/1 in a place, as short as 9/4 elsewhere
Duckett 100/30 in a place, 5/2 generally
Brook, Jamie Smith and Banton 4/1
Jacks 9/2
Bethell 17/2
I'll take Brook (who nearly came in for us last weekend in the ODI) as an alternative to Buttler and the openers. Hoping he gets enough overs at the crease, in any case if he gets a start he will score very quickly.
10 points Harry Brook Top England batsman 1st T20I 9/2 StarSports 4/1 SkyBet, Bet365, 7/2 William Hill
Electric
So far this F1 season McLaren have won seven of nine races, and Oscar Piastri five of them with the team offering the best package including a notable advantage in engine cooling efficiency.
Now they have announced that they are to leave the all-electric Formula E series at the end of this season. The decision comes in the wake of McLaren's commitment earlier this season to enter the world endurance championship, with its centre-piece the classic Le Mans 24 Hours, from 2027.
McLaren entered Formula E in 2022 when they took over the Formula E team run by Mercedes, who quit the series after winning back-to back world titles with Nyck de Vries and Stoffel Vandoorne.
The decision to exit reflects McLaren's desire to focus on the highest-profile parts of their motorsport portfolio, and acknowledgment that they cannot compete in everything.
It also resonates with the company's history as previous winners of the Monaco Grand Prix, Indianapolis 500 and Le Mans, motorsport's so-called triple crown. The decision to enter WEC makes them the only company competing across these three motorsport championships. McLaren have set themselves the target of winning the triple crown again.
IndyCar provides an additional presence in the US market beyond the country's three grands prix in Miami, Austin and Las Vegas, as well as an entry in the Indy 500, the country's biggest race.
World Endurance gives McLaren access to the prestige of Le Mans, as well as a direct marketing link to the company's road-going, high-performance sports cars. Many of McLaren's road-car market rivals, such as Ferrari, Porsche and Lamborghini, are also competing in WEC.
Formula E is a world championship but it is struggling to maintain a significant public profile and grow its audience. While Formula E gives brands a chance to market sustainability as a message, the same now applies to F1. F1 already uses highly efficient hybrid engines, and from next year the electrical part of the power unit will increase to supply about 50% of the total performance. F1 is also switching to fully sustainable fuels.
McLaren will look for a new owner for the Formula E team.
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The Road to Riches Weekend of 31st May-1st June
Coming up this weekend
- Horse Racing, On the flat at Chester, Haydock, Lingfield and York, over the jumps at Stratford and on the all-weather at Southwell
- Cricket, the England ODI series against the West Indies continues on Sunday in Cardiff and the start of the Vitality Blast this weekend.
- Formula One, the Spanish Grand Prix in Barcelona
- Golf, The Canadian Open on the USPGA and the KLM Open on the DP World Tour.
- Tennis, the French Open continues
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England v West Indies 1st ODI, Edgbaston, Thursday May 29tht 1pm start
This series sees three ODIs then a T20 series ahead of India test series beginning at the end of June
The England squad for this series sees a new captain in Harry Brook and included 5 IPL players now minus the injured Jofra Archer.
England’s ODI fortunes have declined substantially since the 2019 World Cup win and they are now down to 8th in the ICC ODI rankings. The West Indies rank ninth.
These rankings are important because only the top 8 rankled teams qualify directly into the 2027 ODI World Cup in South Africa. Were England to lose their next two ODI series including this one, they’d fall below that threshold. At 1/4 (West Indies 7/1) England look quite skinny in the single game win market.
West Indies beat England and Bangladesh at home last year and warmed up for this series with three games against Ireland. They lost the first chasing 303, then their batting really took off scoring 352 in the second game which was rained off at half-way then amassing 385 in the third game that they won. It’s a relatively inexperienced team with, as ever, a lot of their bigger name players lost to permanent spots on the global T20 franchise circuit.
England’s batting line up for the first game (Duckett, Jamie Smith, Root, Brook, Buttler, Bethell, Jacks with Banton in reserve) looked exceptionally strong beforehand, more so than a bowling attack (minus the recently injured Atkinson) of Carse, Overton, Saqib Mahmood and Rashid where only leg-spinner Rashid can be called an established white ball specialist. Death bowling and defending totals may be a problem. Only 3 pace bowling options in a 50 over game is in England is unusual. That puts a lot of pressure on 20 spin overs from Rashid, Root, Jacks and Bethell.
Looking at the odds for England top batsman:
Root 3/1
Duckett 100/30
Buttler 9/2
Brook 5/1
J Smith 5/1
Bethell 10/1
Jacks 11/1
Usually I tend to focus on Joe Root as one of the England ODI batsmen that can play the format, a “glue” player who can build an innings while others can go too hard “T20 style” but the odds have him as favourite in a very competitive line-up. 3/1 doesn’t scream value.
Jamie Smith at 5/1 opening the batting has to be an option, however he struggled at three in earlier ODIs.
Seeing Harry Brook batting four at 5/1 though is an eye-opener. He has 816 runs in 26 ODIs so far including a hundred and five fifties. A couple of new ball wickets and this price would really be a runner.
10 points Harry Brook Top England batsman 5/1 Bet365, BetfairSportsbook, SkyBet (4/1 elsewhere)
Expansion
The BCCI are considering expanding the IPL season to 94 matches and adopting a full home-and-away format from 2028.
The IPL expanded to a 74-game campaign in 2022 when Gujarat Titans and Lucknow Super Giants entered the competition. There are no plans for any new franchises to join the league when the new media rights deal begins in 2028. The number of IPL games a season was stipulated to increase to 84 this year according to the IPL's 2022 media-rights contract (worth US$6bn across a five-year cycle, giving it the second-highest price-per-match valuation of any sports league in the world, behind the NFL) but has remained at 74 for the fourth successive year.
In the short term expansion has not proved possible because of the limited availability window of overseas players and their commitments to ICC International events. The future tours programme (FTP) means the IPL's window from mid-March until the end of May is set in stone for the next two years, but details of the next FTP are due to be decided next year.
Thus the IPL is an outlier, for now, in the a global trend of of growth in sports leagues and events: football's World Cup and Champions League have both swelled in recent years, while the Club World Cup is growing from seven matches to 63.
Within the IPL schedule a significant change has been the dramatic decline in the number of double-headers. The past two seasons have seen only 12 games played in the afternoon slot, less than one in six; back in 2011, that proportion was more than one in three. The result is a longer IPL window, with the season now stretching past nine weeks. Players much prefer evening games in more comfortable conditions but the decline in the number of afternoon games owes primarily to the decline in broadcast ratings for games that start at 3.30pm local compared to 7.30pm, around 30-40% percent lower for the earlier-starting matches.
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