A streaker enters the fray as New Zealand take on England. But what happens next...

After defeat in their opener against Italy at the weekend, England need victory tonight (Thursday) against a Uruguay side surprisingly rolled over by Costa Rica on Saturday.

England are favourites in the betting at 11/10 for the win with Uruguay 13/5 and the draw 9/4. On the spread betting Supremacy it’s England/Uruguay 0.25 – 0.45.

As for whether Luis Suarez will be a threat on his return from injury, our traders have their own view as we’ve gone industry best price on the Liverpool man to be first or last scorer at 6/1. We’re also best price Daniel Sturridge 2/1 Anytime Scorer and Danny Welbeck 11/1 first or last scorer and 4/1 Anytime Scorer.

If the action in Brazil isn’t enough, the Premier League fixtures came out yesterday whetting the appetite for the new season already. We’ve got Man City 15/8 favourites to retain their title, Chelsea 2/1 and Man United ahead of Liverpool in the betting with each at 11/2 and 13/2 respectively and Arsenal a distant 10/1.

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The top quality flat racing continues today with day three of Royal Ascot. The big race of the day is the Gold Cup at 4.25pm, with Estimate bidding to follow up last year’s memorable victory, so delighting the Queen, watching from the stands.

However, Estimate is an 8/1 shot to repeat last year’s win with Leading Light the 5/4 favourite from Brown Panther at 11/2.

As for other contenders, Tac De Boistron is 9/1, Altano 10/1 and Pale Mimosa and Royal Diamond both 14/1.

The day begins at 2.30pm with the Norfolk Stakes and ends with the King George V Stakes at 5.35pm.

As well as Royal Ascot, we’ll have our usual full range of fixed odds and spread betting prices on all the daily racing from the UK and Ireland.

Don’t forget that in addition to our each-way and accumulators, you can now place forecast and tricast fixed odds bets on horse racing with Spreadex. Click the following link to find out more on forecast and tricast betting.

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The first England v Sri Lanka Test ended in a draw earlier this week after coming to a thrilling climax on the final day as the tourists managed to defend their last wicket despite the best efforts of Stuart Broad.

The second Test starts at Headingley tomorrow with England 5/6 for the win, Sri Lanka 7/2 and the draw 2/1. Joe Root top scored in the first Test thanks to an imperious unbeaten double century in his first innings.  We have his second Test Runs quote at 70-77. Gary Balance hit a maiden Test ton in his second innings and we also have his second Test Runs quote at 70-77.

Elsewhere we’ll also be covering all the latest action in the Natwest T20 Blast.

Our long term fixed odds prices for 2015 Cricket World Cup winner have Australia as 10/3 favourites, South Africa 9/2, India 5/1, Sri Lanka 13/2, Pakistan and New Zealand 8/1 and England 9/1.

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Ahead of the start of Wimbledon on Monday, we’ll have plenty of in-play betting on all the action from Eastbourne as the players finalise their preparations for the third major of the season.

As for our Wimbledon fixed odds outrights, defending champion Andy Murray is 7/2 to retain his title behind 7/2 favourite Novak Djokovic. Rafael Nadal is 9/2 and Roger Federer 6/1. There is then a leap to Stanislas Wawrinka and Queen’s champion Grigor Dimitrov both at 22/1.

In the women’s side of the draw, Serena Williams is the 11/8 favourite ahead of French Open winner Maria Sharapova at 5/1, Simona Halep at 10/1 and Victoria Azarenka at 12/1.

Looking further afield, we also in-play betting coverage from Hertogenbosch, Netherlands and long-term fixed odds prices on the Davis Cup, with Switzerland 8/13 favourites to win the competition, France 3/1, Czech Republic 9/2 and Italy 6/1.

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On Saturday, England play their final match of the three-Test series against New Zealand in Hamilton.

Stuart Lancaster’s side have put in two courageous performances only to fall just short against the indomitable All Blacks so how will they fare in the final encounter at the weekend?

We’ll also be covering Australia v France on Saturday with our Points Supremacy market in favour of the Wallabies at Australia/France 11 - 14.

Our rugby league prices include in-play betting on selected Super League and NRL clashes.

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Our in-play golf betting takes in the Travelers Championship from Cromwell, Connecticut on the PGA Tour and the Irish Open from Cork on the European Tour.

We’ll also be betting on the Encompass Championship from the North Shore Country Club, Chicago on the Champions Tour and the US Women’s Open from Pinehurst, North Carolina.

For longer-term golf betting, we have fixed odds outright prices for the Open Championship next month, USPGA Championship and Ryder Cup.

 
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With the NBA Finals done and dusted after San Antonio Spurs overcame Miami Heat and with the Los Angeles Kings triumphing in the Stanley Cup against New York Rangers, our attentions turn from basketball and ice hockey to the continuing baseball season.

We’ll have our usual selection of in-play baseball betting from the MLB plus betting over groups of games to boot.

Or click here to find out more about american sports spread betting. The next race of the F1 season moves to Austria at a track last used for a Grand Prix in 2003. Only four of the 22 drivers have ever raced on the rebadged Red Bull Ring in an F1 car before; Fernando Alonso, Felipe Massa, Kimi Raikkonen and Jenson Button.

The explosive Canadian Grand Prix two weeks ago was the first time a Mercedes driver failed to win as Red Bull’s Daniel Ricciardo won the race in a thrilling finale.

However, our traders are still strongly siding with championship leaders Nico Rosberg and Lewis Hamilton to continue their overall dominance.

Hamilton is 4/6 favourite to win and Rosberg 13/8. On our 80-60-50-40-30-25-20-15-10-5 spread betting Race Index, Hamilton is 58 – 62 and Rosberg 53 – 57.



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The Scottish Independence Referendum takes place on September 18th and our traders reckon it’s going to end as a ‘No’ vote.

That’s 1/5 to be the outcome while a ‘Yes’ vote is 10/3.

We also have prices on the next General Election. For Most Seats we have Labour 4/5, Conservatives even money, UKIP 66/1 and Liberal Democrats 150/1.

For Overall Majority we have Labour 15/8, Conservatives 5/2, UKIP 80/1, Liberal Democrats 200/1 and No Overall Majority 11/10.

We also have markets live for who will be the next Prime Minister after David Cameron.

Ed Milliband is 9/10 favourite followed by Boris Johnson at 10/1, Theresa May at 14/1, Yvette Cooper 14/1, Phillip Hammond 20/1 and George Osborne, Michael Gove and William Hague all 25/1.

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*Prices subject to change.