Chennai Super Kings vs Delhi Capitals Predictions

Chennai Team News

MS Dhoni will be without his two overseas pace bowlers for this one. Josh Hazlewood will miss the whole of the IPL after opting to skip it as a way of managing his workload. Lungi Ngidi, in the meanwhile, is unavailable for this game after featuring in the ODI Series between South Africa and Pakistan.

That should mean a place for either Imran Tahir or Dwayne Bravo depending on how Chennai Super Kings see the wicket in Mumbai. We’ll have to wait and see where Moeen Ali bats but he might be given a chance in the opening slot.

Likely XI: Gaikwad, Ali, Du Plessis, Raina, Rayudu, Dhoni, Curran, Jadeja, Chahar, Thakur, Tahir.

Delhi Team News

The injury to Shreyas Iyer has really put a spanner in the world for Delhi Capitals with the million-dollar question being who will bat at three, where Iyer generally comes in.

The answer is that they’ll probably try out different players in that position over the course of the season but it might be Steve Smith who first gets a chance to impress.

A bigger headache for stand-in skipper Rishabh Pant is how to overcome the absences of star pace duo Kagiso Rabada and Anrich Nortje, who like Ngiidi, are returning from international duty. Spinner Axar Patel mises out after contracting Covid. It will also be interesting to see where they bat Marcus Stoinis. It would be an exciting prospect if he opened.

Likely XI: Stoinis, Dhawan, Smith, Pant, Vinod, Billings, Woakes, Ashwin, Mishra, Yadav, Ishant

CSK vs DC Top Batsman Bet

Recommended Bet: Back Gaturaj Gaikwad to be CSK Top Batsman @ 4.25 with Betway 

We’re big fans of Gaturaj Gaikwad here at Bet India. In fact, he was one of our three top picks for Top Batsman for the whole IPL.

The CSK opener was brilliant at the back end of last season and has continued his good work since, recently scoring 102 in a List A match.

There’s some uncertainty regarding CSK’s batting order but he’s almost certain to open and should have a decent chance after what we saw last year.

Today’s CSK vs DC Hot Bet

Recommended Bet: Back Rishabh Pant to be Delhi Top Batsman @ 5.5 with 10CRIC

As we said already, there’s some uncertainty regarding who will bat where for DC.

But here’s what we do know. Pant has been India’s most in-form batsman across all formats since last year’s IPL and was in red-hot form in the ODI and T20 Series against England, boasting a sky-high strike rate.

As skipper he’ll want to make an impact rather than leaving it to others so we can expect him to bat at four. At odds of 5.0, that will do us nicely given all that he’s got so much going for him.