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This market based around the prediction of the number of runs each side will score in an individual innings.
Say England win the toss and elect to bat at the Oval. SportingIndex might forecast the total number of runs they score as 320, and as a result their prediction would be 315-325. If you believed that England would score heavily, you would bet high on their first innings score at 325 for your chosen stake, in this case, you plump for £2 a run. If England had scored 405 in their first innings, you would have won 80 times your stake: (405 - 325) x your stake = 80 x 2 = £160. But if you thought England would have another one of their spectacular collapses you might bet low at 315. In this case England's first innings score would have lost 90 times your stake: (405 - 315) x your stake = 90 x £2 = -£180.