DC vs KKR Betting Tips & Predictions

DC vs KKR Winner Prediction

Recommended Bet: Back KKR to win @ 1.95 with Pure Win

Last season’s table toppers vs last season’s runners-up face each other for the second time of the campaign.

On the face of it, backing the KKR to win looks like a daft call! On a four-game losing streak, form and luck is deserting them at the worst point in the campaign. I love the underdog, though, and there is still a potent bite to the KKR’s bark – thanks to some key players.

The likes of Andre Russell, Shreyas Iyer, and Dinesh Khartik have the requisite form, experience, and guile to guide their team to the playoffs – but it has to start with a win here.

The Delhi Capitals are under marginally less pressure to get the win, since they have played a game fewer, though defeat would also prove disastrous.

I will be backing my DC vs KKR betting tips with Pure Win – they are a leading online betting site with brilliant pre-match odds. Read our Pure Win review to find out more!

Today’s DC vs KKR Hot Bet

Recommended Bet: Back Andre Russell to be KKR’s man of the match @ 7.0 with 10CRIC

After top scoring with 48 from 25 balls and taking four wickets for five runs from a devastating one-over spell in the KKR’s close defeat to the Gujarat Titans last time out, I was miffed as to how Russell wasn’t awarded the man of the match accolade. Instead, it went to Adil Rashid (2/22 from four overs).

However, despite the questionable decision of match officials, his performance underlined why Russell is always a good value bet for the man of the match market.

He is an explosive batsman that can turn a game on its head in an over, and with the ball in hand he can prove just as devastating.

I will be backing him to be the match’s MVP with 10CRIC – they tend to offer the best prices on individual player markets, although they will also have a broad range of DC vs KKR betting opportunities, both pre-match and in-play! Read our full 10CRIC review here.

Delhi Recent Form

After a fast start, the Delhi Capitals have been underwhelming. They seem incapable of putting any sort of winning run on the table – failing to stitch back-to-back wins together all season.

Their display of disgraceful sportsmanship in the defeat to the Rajasthan Royals is perhaps evidence that tension is running too high for the Capitals to perform. Needing 36 from the final over, Rovman Powell smashed three consecutive sixes to set up a sensational second half of the over. The third six was desperately close to a No Ball, but the umpires believed the call was too marginal. Instead of continuing with the game, the Capitals’ bench went ballistic, remonstrating with officials repeatedly and even sending an assistant coach onto the field to voice his displeasure.

Their actions have been condemned by the majority of the cricketing world – and now a cloud of controversy hangs over the heads of DC coming into this tie, one they could do without! Still, the oddsmakers clearly aren’t concerned – they are heavy favourites in the DC vs KKR betting odds.

KKR Recent Form

Terrible! Four straight defeats on the bounce for the Kolkata Knight Riders means last year’s runners-up find themselves scrapping for their lives in the race for IPL glory.

However, the bare form statistics don’t tell the whole story! Against the Royals, for example, they should have won from the position Shreyas Iyer had got his team into. Only a hat-trick from Yuzvendra Chahal prevented them from getting two crucial points.

Their latest defeat to the Titans would have been just as hard to take for franchise fans – Russell looked as though he had done enough to get his side over the line before a ludicrous catch from Lockie Ferguson stopped the Jamaican’s heroics in its tracks.

One huge positive to take from defeat was their death bowling – they bowled 43 dot balls, claimed seven wickets, and conceded only 29 runs in the final five overs. They will need to replicate more of that sort of form against the likes of Rishabh Pant.

They last lifted the trophy back in 2014, and are long odds to do so again this year. If you fancy getting behind a miraculous title win, you can back them at 16.0 with Betway!

Venue & conditions

The last five games at the Wankhede Stadium have produced a fascinating trend – the team batting first have all won, with an average winning margin of 16.2 runs.

The captain that wins the toss will have an interesting call to make – in the KKR vs GT match at the weekend, Hardik Pandya became the first skipper in 34 matches to bat first after winning the toss.

Will we see one of Iyer or Pant following in his footsteps at such a bat-first friendly venue?