IPL Betting: Delhi Daredevils v Chennai Super Kings

Find Me A 100 Winner / Andrew Hughes / 01 May 2009 / 1

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A run-fest is on the cards as two of the IPL's most settled teams get down to business. Andrew Hughes has the details...

Team News
As Paul Collingwood and Owais Shah have discovered, the Daredevils are a settled team, not given too much to tinkering and after toppling leaders Deccan on Thursday are likely to be unchanged. We shouldn't expect many changes either from Chennai who have been resurgent since Andrew Flintoff left, with Jacob Oram taking his place and showing how it should be done.

Conditions
This is the first match to be played at the New Wanderers and though this is a day night game, with all the attendant risk of dew and swing under the lights, the consensus of opinion seems to be that this will be a truer, faster pitch than we have seen at Durban or Cape Town.

Match Odds
The Chennai resurgence has made this a far more intriguing contest than seemed likely a week ago. With conditions likely to suit those who like to hit through the line, the powerful Super Kings batting line-up could be very dangerous here. But Delhi have been very impressive thus far and their success has been all the more remarkable when you consider that they have managed to win four out of five without any significant contributions from Virender Sehwag or Gautam Gambhir. Delhi are likely to be favourites and should be backed at [1.75] or better.

Top Batsman
For Chennai, this is a contest between Matthew Hayden and Suresh Raina and with the young Indian likely to be the bigger price, he should be backed if you can get [4.5] or better. At bigger odds, you might want to consider Oram at around the [10.0] mark as he is currently outperforming all of the Chennai batsmen bar Hayden and Raina. For Delhi, you should look no further than Tillakaratne Dilshan who is pretty much untouchable at the moment.

Featured Market
I think these two teams have a lot of runs in them and I wouldn't be surprised to see someone going close to a century. Bearing that in mind, you should consider backing '68.5 +' in the highest individual score market.

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Astros tickets | 02 May 2009

Chennai Super King not looks like a winner team. Mathew Haden has played superb inning for his side, but it was not sufficient for his team.