The IPL League stage has concluded and we are left with four teams that can win the Title. We take a look at the qualifier between the Kolkata Knight Riders and Sunrisers Hyderabad taking place in Ahmedabad on Tuesday.
Let’s start first with a look at the Outright Betting where the Kolkata Knight Riders and Sunrisers Hyderabad are both trading as 16/10 favourites, you can get 4/1 Royal Challengers Bengaluru and 13/2 the early pacesetters, Rajasthan Royals.
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KOLKATA KNIGHT RIDERS
The Knight Riders finished top of the table with 9 wins, 3 losses and 2 no results in their 14 matches. They had a positive net run rate of 1.428, well clear of any other team in the competition. They could be a bit rusty going into this one as having won 4 matches in a row their 13th and 14th games were abandoned due to poor weather.
Sunil Narine and Phil Salt had led the charge with the bat for KKR both scoring over 400 runs at strike rates in excess of 180. Varun Chakravarthy has been their top wicket taker with 18 wickets in 13 matches and Harshit Rana has taken 16 wickets in just 9 games.
SUNRISERS HYDERABAD
Sunrisers Hyderabad have been a bit inconsistent towards the latter half of the season, but their 4 wicket win over the Punjab Kings turned out to be enough to see them finish in the top two.
Travis Head has been the destroyer-in-chief with the bat at the top of the order, scoring 533 runs at a strike rate of 201 and South Africa’s Heinrich Klaasen has been striking at over 180 and has hit 33 sixes in the Tournament so far.
Thangarasu Natarajan has been their top bowler with 17 wickets in 11 matches and Pat Cummins as also had a good Tournament with 15 wickets in 13 games.
HEAD-TO-HEAD
These sides only met once in the competition with the Kolkata Knight Riders winning a nail-biting game by 4 runs back in Match 3. That game took place at Eden Gardens in Kolkata and Andre Russell was Man-of-the-Match scoring 64 runs unbeaten off just 25 balls.
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Kolkata Knight Riders 9/10
Sunrisers Hyderabad 19/20
Suggested Bet: Kolkata Knight Riders win at 9/10
This really is a tough game to pick a winner, but the Knight Riders are a brilliant all-round team and if they can shake off any early runs I give them a slight edge here.
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There are plenty of other markets to get involved in such as Players to score a 50 or Top Bat and Top Bowler for the both sides. Given I have gone for a Knight Riders win I am going to have a go at the Player of the Match market.
Suggested Bet: Player of the Match, Sunil Narine at 15/2
Narine has not only been excellent with the bat in this Tournament, but he has also taken 15 wickets at an incredible economy rate of 6.63 so he has every chance of landing this bet with bat, ball or both.
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