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On Super Bowl Sunday, bookies would let their customers predict whether a running back would finish under or over a certain yardage total.

The bookies were offering you odds of somewhere between 6:1 and 10:1 when the odds of it working out felt more like 2:1.

"I tried everything - apps, local bookies, international platforms. I was hooked," he says.

With the Proteas recommencing their first innings on the fifth day Cronje - prompted by a bookie named Marlon Aronstam - contrived an unprecedented innings forfeiture for both sides to ensure a result.

The bookies certainly think so - and they are not alone.