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This is a market predicting the number of wickets an individual bowler will take in a series.
SportingIndex might reckon that Monty Panesar would take 18 wickets in a five-match Test series against the Australians. As a result their prediction would be 17-19. If you believed he would struggle to take wickets, you would bet low at 17 for the stake of your choice, in this case, say £5 a wicket. Had Monty tormented the Aussies for the 5 games and taken 5, 8, 3, 5 and 2 wickets respectively, his series total would have been 23. Had you gone low at 17 you would have lost 6 times your stake of £5: (17 - 23) x your stake = -6 x £5 = -£30. However, had you gone high at 19 you would have won 4 times your stake: (23 -19) x your stake = 4 x £5 = £20.