Not according to reports I've read. He bet on them beating us. Not scoring a hat trick. (Although he did score said hat trick). His excuse. That him and others were insulted at the 3/1 odds to beat us.
If we’re talking dodgy betting, you can’t look further than the Aussie players backing themselves to lose against England at Headingley in 1981, when they were in a commanding position. It often gets forgotten about when talking of Botham and Willis’s heroics!