PBKS vs CSK Betting Tips & Predictions

PBKS vs CSK Betting Winner Prediction

Recommended Bet: Back CSK to win @ 1.96 with Pure Win 

CSK are ‘outsiders’ at 1.96 in a close betting market but we don’t think they should be.

Yes, Punjab are one win better off than CSK, but so what?

CSK started badly as we all know and that last win can’t have been any tighter given it was off the last ball of but they’ve certainly improved over the past two weeks after working out who their best XI is, which by the way, is the one they played in the last match.

The problem they have is that their main men with the bat like Gaikwad, Uthappa and Rayudu aren’t in great form but then again, that’s often been the CSK way that several batsmen chip in rather than one player getting all the runs.

Punjab on the other hand look lost in general, seem to be picking the wrong players and don’t look like winning a game with either bat, or ball.

Add to that CSK’s good record against Punjab and they’re very much the call.

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PBKS vs CSK Hot Bet

Recommended Bet: Back Dwayne Bravo to be CSK Top Bowler @ 3.26 with 10CRIC

If CSK haven’t had a stand-out man with the bat, they have with the ball.

Dwayne Bravo may be 38 but he hasn’t lost his touch. In seven matches he’s taken 12 wickets, with the next best at CSK being Choudhary and Theekshana with seven each.

He’s also been extremely consistent, taking at least one wicket a game and five in his last two.

As we explain in our top bowler guide, bowling at the earth is a big bonus when looking at a top bowler candidate and Bravo ticks that box, as well.

This is the IPL’s top wicket-taker in history we’re talking about so none of this should come as any surprise and we’re happy to go with Bravo.

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Punjab Kings Recent Form

The wheels are coming off for Punjab.

After a decent start where the all-star batting line-up looked like they could set and chase anything, they’re now eighth with just three wins from seven.

What was worse than losing to Delhi on Wednesday was the fact they lost by such a large margin, meaning their net run rate has been badly affected.

Their strategy was mostly based around packing the top and middle order with local and overseas talent and whereas that’s not a bad idea on paper, it’s not going to work when no-one is firing.

All of Shikhar Dhawan, Mayank Agarwal and Jonny Bairstow are out of form and not getting those fifties that were expected of them.

And given their strength is their batting not their bowling, it’s not with the ball they’re going to make up for those shortcomings with the bat.

They probably need to win this one to have a decent chance at making the Playoffs or else they’ll be leaving themselves just too much work to do.

Chennai Super Kings’ Recent Form

At latest they’re making a fist of it.

By winning two of their last three games, at least CSK know that mathematically at least, they’re still in it.

And that should have been three from their three because they really should have won that game against Gujarat last Sunday.

The Titans won from nowhere thanks to an excellent knock from David Miller, Hardik Pandya’s side in the end winning with just one ball to spare.

On Thursday they won off the last ball of the match. And guess who hit the final ball for four?

MS Dhoni found that vital boundary under the utmost pressure as CSK beat Mumbai with a good chase after restricting the Indians to just 155.

That was thanks to some excellent bowling from Mukesh Choudhary (3-19), ably supported by Mitchell Santner and Dwayne Bravo.

In the chase experienced men Ambati Rayudu (40), Dhoni (28) and Dwaine Pretorius (22) got them home.

They’ll probably need to win their next four in a row to have any chance of a Playoff place but it’s not beyond them.

Venue & conditions

It was at the Wankhede Stadium that the Royals posted a monster 222/2 against Delhi, thanks to yet another excellent century from Jos Buttler.

That DC got past 200 in reply tells you this is a very good surface.

Prior to that, RCB got 189 last weekend, also against Delhi, suggesting the par score is around the 190 mark. RCB won that game.

The game before that, the Royals posted a sub-par 165 against Lucknow, which was also enough to win so the last three have all been won by the side batting first, a mostly a rarity in this season’s iPL.

Being an evening game with dew very likely, the tendency will still probably be to chase, though.

But let’s see.