Monday 20 July 2009 11.00 BST
This timeplot shows the live betting odds taken at 30 second snapshots from Betfair plotted over the course of the 5th day of the second Ashes test series. Significant events, ie. the things that have some bearing on the outcome, and therefore the betting market, can be seen as sharp inclines or declines along the x-axis as the odds rise or fall.
The red line shows England starting the day as favourite with odds of 1.43 and five minutes later the odds rocketing away from Australia as Flintoff bowled Haddin out. The visitors spent the next hour clawing their way back to the same odds they had at the start of the day only for Swann to take out their last remaining batsman at mid-day. From therein the Betfair community awarded the game to England, the odd's being statistically insignificant as England picked off the remaining couple of wickets.
1107: WICKET Haddin c Collingwood b Flintoff 80, Aus 313-6 Who's coming in from the other end? Fred, of course - he took no part in any of the warm-ups this morning, but he'd still be bowling if they needed to attach electrodes to his chest and jump-start him at the end of his run-up. Here he comes to Haddin - nick - Colly - OUT! FRED!
1200: WICKET Clarke b Swann 136, Aus 356-7 Swann into the attack and - WICKET TIME. Clarke dances down the track and completely misses the ball, which goes on to hit the stumps. A great, great knock by Clarke but England just three wickets away from victory now.
1209: WICKET Hauritz b Flintoff 1, Aus 363-8 New-man Hauritz, looking somewhat worried - he's got a whole lot more to worry about now...
1229: WICKET Siddle b Flintoff 7, Aus 386-9 He's starting to look a little weary now, Fred - Siddle jabs down on two in-dippers and gets the second down to long leg for a single. Johnson defends one away, takes a single off the fifth and exposes Siddle to what could be Flintoff's last ball. In-swinging yorker dug out - no-ball, so he'll have another pop. He turns off a run-up of about 10 paces - BOWLED HIM!
1242: Johnson b Swann 63, Aus 406 all out Swann fancies getting involved here, tossing them up invitingly for Johnson and beating him twice outside off after a mow over midwicket brings up two. BOWLED HIM!
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