England Three Wickets From the Series at Lord's — and the Whales Who Backed Them at 1.04 Are Going Again

Lord’s, day four, and the arithmetic is brutal: Pakistan were 53 for 3 at lunch, chasing 389, needing 336 more runs — or roughly five sessions of survival — to keep the second Test alive. England lead the three-match Rothesay series 1–0 after winning the Headingley opener by an innings and 103 runs inside three days, and the Lord’s script is following the same authors: Ollie Robinson took 4-11 as Pakistan folded for 110 first time around, and has 2-13 from seven overs in the chase; Jofra Archer removed Babar Azam with a short ball, caught at slip. Mohammad Abbas earned his place on the honours board with 5-57, but a target this size at this ground has one realistic rescuer, and it’s the weather.

The 1.04 brigade

The whales treated the first Test like a savings account. Five tickets totalling $350,753 backed England at prices between 1.02 and 1.04 at Headingley — the biggest a $125,000 ticket at 1.04 that returned $130,000, alongside $80,000 and $60,000 at the same price. All five cashed inside three days. A four-figure return on six figures at risk is a very particular kind of nerve, and an innings-and-103 margin says the read was right, if barely paid.

The series book overall: 17 tickets, $509,974 staked, 10 wins, 2 losses, 5 pending — a small line in a cricket ledger that is anything but small. All-time, the feed has tracked $46.8M across 1,962 cricket bets with a 1,138–614 settled record: quietly one of the strongest whale sports on the site.

The live tickets

The pending money is where the drama is. Two totals tickets landed today, both on Pakistan’s second innings: $18,000 on Over 194.5 and $17,000 on Over 103.5, both at 1.8 — bets that Pakistan bat long enough to make England work, without needing them to actually win. A $18,555 England ticket from Thursday at 1.02 rides the other side of the same afternoon. All three grade when the match does — and with Robinson mid-spell, that may be measured in hours, not days. We publish the grades when the graders do.

England close out the series with the third Test to come; if the last seven wickets go the way the first three did, they’ll arrive there 2–0 up with the whales’ 1.04 pipeline intact. Every graded ticket lives on the cricket hub, the all-time board, and the live feed — alongside a loaded weekend: the Premier League’s $20M open and the US Open’s first-night board. Before you tail a Test match, check the bonus board. 18+ · gamble responsibly.