RCB vs GT Betting Tips & Predictions

RCB vs GT Betting Winner Prediction

Recommended Bet: Back GT to win @ 1.87 with Betway 

One of the curious things about cricket betting is the belief that sides who need to win often beat sides who don’t necessarily need to win. And this match is a case in point.

RCB desperately need to win to have any chance of making the Playoffs. Not only that, but they actually need to win big to improve their net run rate.

Gujarat don’t need to win at all. They’ll be top of the table whatever happens.

But are we meant to believe that the Titans are all of a sudden going to play this like it’s a practice match? Of course not.

They’ll want to keep up the momentum ahead of the Qualifier 1, not to mention that there are men out there playing for their places.

If someone has a really poor game they might lose their place in the side to someone else.

So if we forget about motivation levels for a minute based on that, who is the better side?

That’s an easy question to answer because Gujarat are three wins better off so far than RCB.

And for good measure, the Titans beat Bangalore when they played earlier this season.

The 1.87 on Gujarat is a perfectly decent price worth taking.

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RCB vs GT Hot Bet

Recommended Bet: Back Dinesh Karthik to be RCB Top Batsman @ 12.43 with 10CRIC

The bad news about this bet is that Dinesh Karthik hasn’t had a big score in a while now, with knocks of 6, 2, 26, 30 and 11 in his last five outings.

The good news is that after batting at six or seven for much of the tournament, he’s been batting at five or six recently, which as we explain in our top batsman betting guide, can make a huge difference.

The other point is he may not have much to beat.

The big-name players like Kohli, du Plessis, Maxwell etc have all been out of form (one of the big problems in their struggles) meaning that Karthik may well come to the crease earlier than expected and may need just 30 or 40 runs to beat his team-mates.

Either way, odds of 12.43 are too good to turn down.

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Royal Challengers Bangalore’s Recent Form

It’s been a typically chaotic season for RCB.

It’s funny how they changed captain from Virat Kohli to Faf du Plessis and changed plenty of their players from last season (mostly because they could only retain four), yet their main problem still persists: inconsistency.

At times this season they looked a top side with great batting depth and good variety in their bowling, at other times they looked disorganised, indisciplined and devoid of ideas.

We’ve said it before but Virat Kohli has had a really poor season and it cost them on numerous occasions.

If he wasn’t Virat Kohli he would have been dropped a long time ago and RCB must be a) wondering whether they made the right decision in retaining him on big money and b) thinking long and hard about whether they want to keep him again for next year.

Time may be running out for Kohli, in the T20 format at least.

Mind you, one of their other big-name stars in Glenn Maxwell hasn’t been much better.

So the equation regarding Bangalore and making the Playoffs is as follows: RCB need to win and hope Delhi lose. They’re on the same number of points but there’s a massive difference in their net run rate so even a big win for RCB and a narrow win for Delhi wouldn’t be enough to see RCB through.

Last time out they suffered a big defeat against Punjab which is why their net run rate took such a beating.

Gujarat Titans’ Recent Form

We’ve talked at length on this site about how they’re a side greater than the sum of their parts.

Their bowling looked excellent from day one, their batting looked suspect from day one but one way or another, they just keep on winning.

At the weekend, they restricted CSK to just 133 and chased it with ease. Rashid Khan, Alzarri Joseph and Mohammed Shami were all excellent with the ball, economical and taking at least one wicket each.

Then it was left to W Saha to hit an unbeaten 67 with the bat in the chase and that was that, yet another Gujarat win.

Whatever happens in this match or in other matches around them they’ll finish top of the table and have two chances to make the final. It’s no more than they deserve.

Venue & conditions

If you just looked at the last two first innings scores at the Wankhede Stadium you may have thought that this was a nightmare wicket to bat on.

CSK managed just 133/5, easily chased by Gujarat. And the match before that, Chennai were all out for 97. Also chased, in this case by Mumbai.

You will have spotted however that on both occasions it was Chennai posting those extremely low scores, so maybe we can just put them down to poor CSK batting rather than a tricky pitch.

Before that, there were first innings totals of 192/3 (RCB), 198/5 (Punjab), 152/5 (Rajasthan) and 195/3 (Lucknow).

So first innings scores have been a little all over the place but this is a far better wicket than those CSK totals suggest.

In the last six, three have been won by the side batting first and three by the side chasing so there doesn’t seem to be any toss bias here.