Another week of action in the Icons of Darts leagues brought to us by the gang at Modus Darts concludes on Saturday when the second pool of players grace their home oches and the live stream for the third and final time.
This group has provided some excellent darts in their first two days of action with two or three class acts really battling it out and that is what we are expecting to see over the course of play on Saturday as well.
The Format
Each day from Monday to Saturday six players will battle it out for a daily title. There are two pools of players, one which plays on Monday, Wednesday and Friday and the other which toe the oche on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. Each day the six players will play each other once over the best of nine legs with two points for a win. The daily winner is the player with the most points. If players are level on points it is determined on leg difference and then the record between the two. The entire event can be watched on various bookmaker websites, dartshop.tv or the Modus YouTube channel.
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Friday Recap
We had a shock winner of the group on Friday as Paul Nicholson picked up four wins from his five matches to steal the section at a double figure price. David Evans won his last three matches of the day to finish second with three wins, finishing above Martin Adams on leg difference. There were a couple of victories each for Fallon Sherrock and James Hubbard while Scott Marsh ended his week with a solitary success to his name.
Unfortunately for us that success did not come in the match against Paul Nicholson even though Marsh led 4-1 and had the throw in the seventh and deciding legs. He proceeded to lose all four legs, missing three darts at a double to win the match in a decider. That was a kick in the teeth and condemned us to a loss on the day because Marsh was never in the hunt for the group win.
Saturday Line Up
Jason Askew has been the man of the week in the second pool of players so far. He has landed both group titles and looks to be getting better, and he’ll be lining up a clean sweep of successes when he takes to his home oche on Saturday. Boris Koltsov is rated as his biggest danger by the bookmakers but the Russian is becoming frustrating to follow. He is the epitome of the scores for show doubles for dough saying as he’s blinding at the former and been found wanting at the latter.
Once again we have a couple of former world champions on show on Saturday as Scott Mitchell will look to make up for a surprisingly poor day on Thursday, while Mark Webster will hope to back it successive Saturday group victories. Andy Jenkins was actually the man who ran Askew the closest on Thursday and he’ll be eyeing up going a little better here. Keelan Kay is finally showing signs of life but he is the outsider of the sextet.
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Outright Betting
I really don’t get how we can still get 2/1 on Jason Askew to win the group. He has dominated this week with nine wins from 10 matches. The match he lost was his first one in over a week so he goes into Saturday off the back of nine successive victories. Not only is he in such great form but his main rivals in this group appear to be weakening which is only going to make his life easier should that trend continue on Saturday.
Putting it simply, Askew is the best scorer of the lot over this distance and his finishing is not weak enough for him to suddenly go on a raft of defeats. He wasn’t as competitive over the seven leg distance but it doesn’t sound much but the extra two legs are like a godsend for him. We’ve seen throughout the Modus leagues that he is quality over this distance and the 2/1 on him completing the sweep of titles looks too big to me here.
Match Betting
I’ll go with one bet in the match betting on Saturday as well and it is a punt which served us well on Thursday. That is for Scott Mitchell to cover a 1.5 leg handicap against Mark Webster. To be fair Mitchell probably had his worst day of all in the Modus leagues on Thursday but he still managed to beat Webster 5-1, as he did on Tuesday when he was much more at the races than he was on Thursday.
That just shows that Mitchell doesn’t have to play well to beat Webster, but when he does play well he has plenty in hand of him. Webster has offered a more competitive edge as this week has gone on but I still think he’s got plenty to find to live with Mitchell, unless the BDO star suddenly misses a load of doubles. I expect the disappointment of Thursday to fuel the fire of Mitchell here and however he fares he can cover this handicap for the third time in a row.
Tips
Back J.Askew to win Group 6 for a 3/10 stake at 3.00 with Coral
Back him here:
Back S.Mitchell (-1.5 legs) to beat M.Webster for a 3/10 stake at 2.00 with Betfair
Back him here:
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