IPL Betting: Delhi Daredevils v Kolkata Knight Riders

Find Me A 100 Winner / Tareq Quiroz / 04 May 2009 / Leave a Comment

At the off the the Kolkata Knight Riders looked a formidable side loaded with top order big-hitters but they have been a huge disappointment so far and things are unlikely to get any easier against the Delhi Daredevils, says TQ.

Team News

The Delhi Daredevils are a winning side with a lot going for them and as such they have not been prone to many team changes thus far. That is up until their last game when they were comprehensively beaten by Chennai. Will that plant seeds of doubt in the Delhi minds or will they get back to winning ways? Collingwood and Shah have been forced to watch this from the sidelines and how they wish they could have played against Chennai. Captain Gambhir will go back to his winning line-up with Vettori coming back to bolster the bowling.

Kolkata Knight Riders are a team in desperate trouble and it is difficult to see what they can do to make things any better. They packed the top order with stars and they failed to produce. Chris Gayle was hailed as the man to rock this tournament but he has been slightly hampered by injury and not hit the spots. He is now on his way to play for the West Indies so expect the only change to be him being replaced by Mendis.

Venue, pitch and conditions

This is the second game in Durban on Tuesday and for a precise guide to conditions it would certainly pay to watch the Kings XI Punjab v Rajasthan Royals game prior to this. The last time we had back to back games here both games were surprisingly low scoring. I don't expect the same this time with scores expected in excess of 150 with the conditions expected.
Match Odds

There is no doubt that the Daredevils are going to start favourites for this match and rightly so. The question you have to ask yourself is: does the [1.7] about the Daredevils look just a little too short? The Knight Riders came into this event with plenty of promise but they have yet to deliver on that. However, could this be the day when all that changes?

Other markets

Using the first match on this pitch as a guide, you may want to get involved in the Innings Runs market. The market will form once the toss has been made and just glancing back at previous matches the second match often follows very similarly to the first. Assuming there is nothing out of the ordinary in the first game take a punt on the same innings runs bracket in this match.

TQ says: Back Delhi Daredevils to beat Kolkata Knight Riders at [1.7]