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Australia clinch tri-series, thrash England by 112 runs
Australians are making it hard for all the visiting teams to win matches in Australia. England were today defeated by 112 runs and the Australian team to clinch the tri-series. Australia was again brilliant winning nine out of the ten matches they have played on their home ground.
Pick of the bowlers for the Australian team was Johnson and Maxwell was brilliant with the bat and ball.
The all-rounder’s first half-century since October bettered his 93-run effort against Zimbabwe last Ausgust, helping Australia recover from a poor start with the help of Mitch Marsh (60 off 67).
The pair combined to score 141 runs to resurrect the home side’s innings from 60 for four after James Anderson (2-38) struck twice with the new ball.
Stuart Broad finished with three for 55 to be the pick of English bowlers, before a late cameo from James Faulkner, who cracked 50 from only 24 balls.
England captain Eoin Morgan’s decision to bowl first was vindicated second ball when Anderson’s perfect outswinger removed Aaron Finch to Joe Root at first slip for a third-ball duck.
A flurry of crisp boundaries from Steve Smith and David Warner hampered England’s progress, but Anderson struck again to dismiss the latter for 12 at point to have Australia 33 for two.
It took 16 balls for skipper George Bailey to get off the mark, but the run scoring ended next ball when Broad’s strategically placed bat-pad fielder gobbled an easy catch to give England their third Australian scalp.
But while the visiting seamers made scoring difficult for the hosts, Smith’s sublime form let him craft singles from all angles, crashing fours behind point and straight down the ground to make batting look easy.
So Morgan turned to the spin of Moeen Ali to halt Smith’s charge. Four balls into his first over, Ali had Smith advancing and missing, and not even a fumble from wicketkeeper Jos Buttler could save the set batsman.
With Smith walking off the ground with 40 of the 60 runs scored, there was reason for Australian fans to panic, but the young duo of Maxwell and Marsh calmed fears with orthodox, mature stroke play.
But the lure of a maiden hundred in a single blow was too much for the Victorian, falling five short after top edging Broad to Buttler. With Maxwell gone the power game was suitably left to Marsh.
Two muscular boundaries either side of the wicket promised a score close to 300, but when Brad Haddin’s call for a second found the all-rounder short of his ground at the non-striker’s end via a relay throw, the projected total dropped significantly.
But Faulkner picked up the slack, pummelling Chris Woakes for three sixes and 24 runs off the penultimate over before hitting the last ball of the innings for six to raise his fifty and leave the field with the momentum.
The State Scores Extra High on Gaming-Friendly Industry Index
Meghalaya scored 92.85 out of 100 possible points in a Gaming Industry Index and proved to be India’s most gaming-friendly state following its recent profound legislation changes over the field allowing land-based and online gaming, including games of chance, under a licensing regime.
The index by the UK India Business Council (UKIBC) uses a scale of 0 to 100 to measure the level of legalisation on gambling and betting achieved by a state based on the scores over a set of seven different games – lottery, horse racing, betting on sports, poker, rummy, casino and fantasy sports
Starting from February last year, Meghalaya became the third state in India’s northeast to legalise gambling and betting after Sikkim and Nagaland. After consultations with the UKIBC, the state proceeded with the adoption of the Meghalaya Regulation of Gaming Act, 2021 and the nullification of the Meghalaya Prevention of Gambling Act, 1970. Subsequently in December, the Meghalaya Regulation of Gaming Rules, 2021 were notified and came into force.
All for the Tourists
The move to legalise and license various forms of offline and online betting and gambling in Meghalaya is aimed at boosting tourism and creating jobs, and altogether raising taxation revenues for the northeastern state. At the same time, the opportunities to bet and gamble legally will be reserved only for tourists and visitors.
“We came out with a Gaming Act and subsequently framed the Regulation of Gaming Rules, 2021. The government will accordingly issue licenses to operate games of skill and chance, both online and offline,” said James P. K. Sangma, Meghalaya State Law and Taxation Minister speaking in the capital city of Shillong. “But the legalized gambling and gaming will only be for tourists and not residents of Meghalaya,” he continued.
To be allowed to play, tourists and people visiting the state for work or business purposes will have to prove their non-resident status by presenting appropriate documents, in a process similar to a bank KYC (Know Your Customer) procedure.
Meghalaya Reaches Out to a Vast Market
With 140 millions of people in India estimated to bet regularly on sports, and a total of 370 million desi bettors around prominent sporting events, as per data from one of the latest reports by Esse N Videri, Meghalaya is set to reach out and take a piece of a vast market.
Estimates on the financial value of India’s sports betting market, combined across all types of offline channels and online sports and cricket predictions and betting platforms, speak about amounts between $130 and $150 billion (roughly between ₹9.7 and ₹11.5 lakh crore).
Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Delhi are shown to deliver the highest number of bettors and Meghalaya can count on substantial tourists flow from their betting circles. The sports betting communities of Karnataka, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh and Haryana are also not to be underestimated.
Among the sports, cricket is most popular, registering 68 percent of the total bet count analyzed by Esse N Videri. Football takes second position with 11 percent of the bets, followed by betting on FIFA at 7 percent and on eCricket at 5 percent. The last position in the Top 5 of popular sports for betting in India is taken by tennis with 3 percent of the bet count.
Local Citizens will Still have Their Teer Betting
Meghalaya residents will still be permitted to participate in teer betting over arrow-shooting results. Teer is a traditional method of gambling, somewhat similar to a lottery draw, and held under the rules of the Meghalaya Regulation of the Game of Arrow Shooting and the Sale of Teer Tickets Act, 2018.
Teer includes bettors wagering on the number of arrows that reach the target which is placed about 50 meters away from a team of 20 archers positioned in a semicircle.
The archers shoot volleys of arrows at the target for ten minutes, and players place their bets choosing a number between 0 and 99 trying to guess the last two digits of the number of arrows that successfully pierce the target.
If, for example, the number of hits is 256, anyone who has bet on 56 wins an amount eight times bigger than their wager.
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