A nameless loved one has convinced me to get this hundred for charity.
“How do I do that” I said.
“Get sponsors for your runs. Say 50p a run for you to get this thing. But you’d never raise anything because you’d actually have to get this hundred, not just write about it. Or I know,
“You do do you”
if you work out your average last season, maybe you could ask for 50p per run everytime you pass your average. No that wouldn’t work either, your average is a so low it’s a guarded secret.”
“I’m not begging for sponsorship. I’ve got a better idea. ”
“Let’s hear it.”
“You can read about it in my next blog. At least two of us, will have visited the site then.”
I’d heard that bookies offer odds on anything. So I called William Hill to see if I could back myself or get others to take a punt with a percentage of the bet going to charity. Open bets look unlikely though. Fears that I could mastermind a nobbling with a triad syndicate were too high. But to my suprise they said it might be possible to back myself but there had to be a few rules and limits. So I’m going to see them tomorow to hear their terms. If I can film it I’ll take the camera along.
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Odds,odds, it doesn’t matter what odds you get, you’ll never get a 50 ball hundred, never! never! never!
Where’s the William Hill vid?
by the way, it’s quite clear that you view cricket/batting as therapy of some sort.
B, old son, had an idea, ‘G’ has a mate called Patrick who might help with idea. he is a professional gambler and should know how to set up the odds part of this idea.
I think there could be a simple algorith developed which created the odds if you input some simple criteria like age number of games you play in season, past number of innings, highest score average etc?
Could be done on a website with you calculating the odds yourself and asking people to bet on others or themselves?
So they could get their friends to sponsor them per run and bet themsleves.
Non?
Hezza
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