IPL Betting: Kings XI Punjab v Rajasthan Royals

Find Me A 100 Winner / Tareq Quiroz / 04 May 2009 / 1 Comments

It's been an inconsistant start so far for the reigning champions the Rajasthan Royals who now face the Kings Punjab XI, captained by Yuvraj Singh. Side with the consistency, says TQ...

Team News

It doesn't get much tighter than Kings XI Punjab's last encounter. A scrambled single off the final ball was enough to see them home and that may well turn out to be the biggest win of their campaign. Coming after a truly dreadful defeat to Bangalore Royal Challengers, they made a few personnel changes and also an alteration to their batting order. Sunny Sohal came in for Goel and after a quick fire 25 expect him to retain his place in an otherwise unchanged line-up.
Defending champions Rajasthan Royals have had a far from enjoyable time this year.

But with the games coming so thick and fast you can turn it around just as easily. Just like the Kings XI, Rajasthan are coming off a scrambled win. At 3/3 in their last game you would have given them little to no chance of a victory but they showed tremendous resilience. The mainstay of that was from an unlikely source in Lee Carseldine and he will retain his place and the only person I can see being replaced is ineffectual opener Asnodkar. Teams have worked him out this year and he isn't having the same impact he had last time around.

Venue, pitch and conditions

Once again we are off to Durban for back to back games and with this being the opening game of the two we will have to trust that previous conditions will be repeated. We have seen some big scores at this Kingsmead track through the tournament, although the last couple of games have struggled to see scores of over 140. Expect good batting conditions for this encounter and you should find whoever wins the toss will elect to bat first.

Match Odds

Kings XI Punjab will be slight favourites for this match and on form you would have to say they will be the team supported in the run up to the match. You can't trust Warne's troops to produce on a regular basis so on that alone the only bet you can get involved in prior to the game is to back Kings XI Punjab.

Other markets

Kings XI definitely have a lot of big hitters in their armoury and couple that with Rajasthan Royals seemingly endless run of poor starts it would be a surprise to me if the Kings XI didn't make more of the opening six overs. Check this market out and try and try and get something around the [1.75] mark.

TQ says: Back Kings XI Punjab to beat Rajasthan Royals at [1.8]

Comments (1)

1. imran | 05 May 2009

   i love cicket