IPL 2020: Kolkata Knight Riders v Chennai Super Kings Betting Tips & Predictions
This is an important match between two sides pretty close to each other in the table who have had a stop-start this season so far, so it’s no surprise that IPL betting is finding it very hard to split the two.
The Chennai Super Kings are fresh from an extremely comfortable victory on Sunday, while the Kolkata Knight Riders fell short in a huge chase against Delhi.
It all means that when they meet on Wednesday, October 7 at 7:30 pm IST in Abu Dhabi, this becomes a big game in terms of one side moving comfortably into the Top 4 while the loser will feel they’re under pressure.
Up next is all the team news, stats and of course, those all-important betting tips as we try to keep making this a profitable IPL for our readers.
KKR vs CSK head to head
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Our Hot Bet for Kolkata vs Chennai
| Bet | Odds | Site |
|---|---|---|
| Back Faf Du Plessis to be man of the match | 10.0 | 10CRIC |
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Why is this a good bet?
Du Plessis has been one of the standout performers with the bat at this IPL, which is why he’s very much in contention to end the season as top run scorer.
Switching between opening and batting at three, he’s so far scored 282 runs, second only to KL Rahul.
In five knocks, he’s passed 50 on three occasions and just seems to understand these UAE wickets better than most in terms of scoring areas and which boundaries to target. If we believe that Chennai will go on to win the game, then we surely also believe that Du Plessis has very chance of being man-of-the-match on the back of making a very meaningful contribution.
Kolkata Knight Riders v Chennai Super Kings betting tips and predictions
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| Bet | Odds | Site |
|---|---|---|
| Back Chennai to win | 1.9 | Bet365 |
| Back Chennai to hit the most sixes | 2.3 | Bet365 |
Chennai Super Kings to win: Why is this a good bet?
The bookmakers can’t split the two but we think Chennai should at least be favourites. Three good reasons for that.
First, because they’re 13-7 ahead on head-to-head records over the years.
Secondly, because they have the better spinners and perhaps, more importantly, the better (batsmen) when it comes to playing spin.
Thirdly, because of momentum; they’re fresh from winning easily while Kolkata lost once again at the weekend. More than enough reasons to make them the selection.
Chennai to hit the most sixes: Why is this a good bet?
It paid to go with the outsider in Delhi v Bangalore and though this is at 2.3 rather than 2.55, it’s a good bet nonetheless. The bookies are obviously afraid of the six-hitting potential of Russell and Narine for KKR.
Fine but they’re both badly out of form, whereas Chennai have in Watson, Dhoni, Curran and a few others, some fearsome batsmen of their own when it comes to hitting sixes.
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Our money is on these Kolkata Knight Riders v Chennai Super Kings bets
So three cricket betting tips ahead of this big game that will see one side contenders to make the Play-Offs and the other in a tough position.
We have good reasons for all our bets and are confident we can show a profit of sorts!
Where to bet on Kolkata Knight Riders v Chennai Super Kings
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It’s also worth reading this article that explains in great details why it’s so important to have more than one betting account. Always getting the best odds on whatever you’re betting on is one reason for it, but there are plenty of others.
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Chennai Super Kings
If they hadn’t beaten the Kings XI on Sunday, Chennai would have been under the utmost pressure long before we reached the halfway stage, almost in a position where they would have had to win four games in a row to still be in contention for the Play-Offs.
But they won, they won comfortably and thanks to that, they also improved their net run rate; they may well need it later on.
As important as anything is that Shane Watson found some form. He looked clueless and full of self-doubt before Sunday but his flawless knock of 83 off 53 was just what he and Chennai needed.
What’s strange is that they haven’t yet found a place for Imran Tahir. How can you leave out a man who was last season’s top bowler in the whole of the IPL? They need to get him in the team somehow and the logical move is for him to come in for Dwayne Bravo, especially given that this is a venue for spinners.
Possible XI: Watson, Du Plessis, Rayudu, Jhadav, Curran, Dhoni, Jadeja, Chawla, Chahar, Thakur, Tahir.
Kolkata Knight Riders
In our pre-season preview, we talked about how lucky KKK were to have not one, but two world-class all-rounders in their side in Andre Russell and Sunil Narine.
Remarkably, they’ve pretty much been the weak link so far. Narine hasn’t got runs and has only taken two wickets and worse still, his strike rate, so important as an opener, is low.
Russell, as is so often the case with him, doesn’t look fully fit. He’s not bowling much and is finding it hard to come to terms with wickets he doesn’t know too well here in the UAE when it comes to batting.
One option is to drop Narine, bring in specialist opener Tom Banton and ask Russell to bowl a bit more to make up for the overs Narine won’t bowl. Another is to bring in Aussie spinner Chris Green for Narine and get someone like Rahul Tripathi to open.
But they may just give the West Indian off-spinner one last go before making changes.
Possible XI: Narine, Gill, Rana, Morgan, Russell, Karthik, Tripathi, Cummins, Nagarkoti, Mavi, Varun.
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