Sorry mate, you've just dropped $20 million.

The Stanford Series so far has seen some very low-scoring matches so far, and it has certainly been fairly disappointing in terms of the cricketing spectacle that we have been promised for the last few months. A curious feature of these matches is that an unfeasible number of catches have been dropped - most of them have been frankly embarrassing.

It is thought that the low floodlights (due to a nearby airport) have been the root cause of this problem, but it seems that the worry of dropping a catch has become ingrained into the minds of the players, merely exacerbating this problem. Watching Middlesex's Eoin Morgan drop a catch on the boundary last night against Trinidad & Tobago will have highlighted the problem of dropping a life-changing catch. If Morgan had hung on to the catch, Middlesex would have been comfortable victors...instead, it was tipped over the rope for a six, and Denesh Ramdin made the Crusaders pay for their profligacy in the field - not to say that T&T were not overly generous themselves.

We will have some more previews closer to the time, but Blue Square's 2.1 on there being 'over 3.5 dropped catches' in Saturday's finale seems worth snapping up before the price disappears. So far I have counted at least six dropped catches in every match, so odds-against is certainly worth taking.
NJ's Bet:

Pick: Over 3.5 dropped catches - 3pts @ 2.1 (Bluesq)