The Hundred Betting 2023

Winner Market

What people often forget about the Rajasthan Royals’ win in the inaugural IPL back in 2008 is that not only were they the outsiders of all the eight teams, but they were 50.0 chances at the start, no less.

What that shows is that in a new tournament, it’s not so easy to work out who is the best-balanced team, which players are suited to the format and conditions and which sides will have the best tactics on the day.

So with regard to The Hundred, it begs the question: which side (if any) can do a Rajasthan and defy the odds?

Well, last year’s winners the Southern Brave weren’t quite the odds of Rajasthan all those years ago but they certainly weren’t one of the favourites, either.

They lacked star names and didn’t feature many England international players but they played well as a team, seized the big moments and played smart cricket en route to winning the inaugural season.

Because it’s such a new tournament, the customers who can work this all out best and quickest can take serious advantage of some attractive odds on the winner market.

There will inevitably be some red herrings out there in the form of teams with big-name glizy players. So we’ll help you sort the wheat from the chaff in terms of the quality sides and the ones who look great but won’t win too many games.

To make the final

Few things are more frustrating when it comes to cricket betting than picking a side to win who has one heck of a tournament before falling at the final hurdle in the final, meaning you end up with no payout at all.

A good example of that is the Chennai Super Kings in the IPL. They may have won the IPL on three separate occasions under MS Dhoni but they also lost a further five finals. So if you’d backed CSK on each of those five years just to win, you would have ended up empty-handed.

It means that sometimes the best option is to take a slightly safer approach and side with a team to make the final rather than to win it. If you backed say the Oval Invincibles to make the final, you’d have a winning bet the moment they made the final, whether they won it or lost it.

The downside of course is that the odds on ‘making the final’ rather than winning tend to be about half. But that’s much better than not winning at all!

Top Batsman

First things first. Remember that The Hundred will have a maximum of 100 balls per innings rather than the usual 120 that you get in T20 cricket.

The first thing that means is that the biggest hitters of all like Jonny Bairstow and Jos Buttler will have better chances than usual on the top runscorer market because the key will be to score extremely quickly.

But the biggest advantage of all is to be an opener. Fewer balls faced per innings means that the openers will likely stay around for more of the innings. This means they will leave fewer balls (and fewer chances) for those who aren’t openers to match and overtake their scores.

So being an opener will be a huge factor when deciding who to put your money on for top runscorer.

However, it’s worth pointing out that last year’s top runscorer…wasn’t an opener! And he wasn’t the only one.

The Phoenix’s Liam Livingstone batted at either three or four last season and was the top runscorer in The Hundred by some distance

His 348 runs were 116 more than anyone else managed in a season where he was in the form of his life, hitting three fifties in nine games at a strike rate of 178.

But to further muddy the waters, runner-up Ben Duckett (232 runs) also batted at three, as did James Vince (third, 229 runs). The fourth-highest run scorer Moeen Ali, who scored 225 runs, also came in at three. Glenn Phillips, who was fifth, batted at four.

So in 2021 we were left with the almost unheard of situation where none of the Top 5 in the batting charts were openers, which goes against everything we knew, or at least thought we knew, about short-format cricket.

So it will be fascinating to see if in 2023 The Hundred reverts to type with openers holding all the trump cards. Or if the new format carries on favouring batsmen coming in at three or four.

Check out the complete guide to top batsman betting so you can master this market!

Top Bowler

Despite India being associated with slow, turning wickets and spin bowling, the stats show that the IPL’s top bowler is very rarely a spinner. It’s the pacemen who tend to thrive the most when it comes to taking wickets.

This is also the case in the Big Bash where the fast, bouncy Australian wickets give the quick bowlers an even bigger advantage.

So it will be interesting to see how things go in the Hundred. England is generally seen as a country where wickets favour seam bowlers who can get the ball to swing. However, spinners like Rashid Khan and Sunil Narine can do plenty of damage, especially if batsmen decide they’re the ones to go after.

Don’t forget about some of the English players who know their home conditions so well. They’re unlikely to be the favourites with overseas stars surely the shortest in the betting but home knowledge could make a big difference.

From among bowlers taking 11 or 12 wickets, three of them were overseas bowlers: Adam Milne, Marchant de Lange and Rashid Khan. Two of them were English: Adil Rashid and Benny Howell.

Khan and Rashid are spinners, de Lange and Milne are pace bowlers, while Howell is almost in a category of his own with his medium pace bowling full of tricks and slower balls.

Conclusion: very different types of bowlers can thrive in this format as long as they bowl well enough over the course of the season.

Check out the complete guide to top bowler betting so you can master this market!

How to bet on the Hundred

We’ve spoken at great length already about different betting options on The Hundred and how nearer the time we’ll give you some great betting tips on it. But none of this is any good to you if you can’t find those betting markets on the Hundred. Here’s how to get to them.

• Log into your preferred betting site. We have listed the best betting sites in India for you.
• If it’s a multi-product site (eg, includes casino or poker as well as sports) go to the Sports section.
• Choose the cricket option from the list of sports and find The Hundred there.
• Make sure to deposit money before you bet. Here’s our guide on withdrawing and depositing at betting sites.
• Look through the betting markets and place your bets!

Where to bet on The Hundred

Choosing the right place to bet on the Hundred is extremely important! Everyone will have their own priorities regarding what’s important to them. For some, it may be a site that offers higher odds, for others, it may be that instant withdrawal betting sites in India are what’s most important.

We make it our job to make your life as easy as possible when deciding. That means going through dozens of betting sites, opening accounts at them all, playing there and then reporting back with our research.

The result is the most knowledgeable, honest and transparent reviews of the best betting sites in India. If these weren’t good sites we wouldn’t even bother reviewing them, let alone promote them. So, you know you’re in good hands with them.

Among our favourites are Betway and 10CRIC but they’re certainly not the only ones that are high quality!

Northern Superchargers

The Superchargers ended the 2021 season in fifth spot with three wins, four defeats and a no result, ultimately finishing three points off a Playoff place.

The promising Hary Brook, who recently featured for England in the T230 Series against India was their top runscorer with 189 runs from just five innings. He was the fifth top scorer in the tournament despite playing just five knocks with John Simpson (152 runs) and Chris Lynn (150) the next best from among the Superchargers.

With the ball Adil Rashid was the big star with 12 wickets, the England man finishing as the joint-highest wicket-taker in the Hundred alongside three others.

Part of the problem last season was that their big-name player Ben Stokes, also the captain, was taking a break from cricket last year and hardly featured at all for them, depriving the side of their skipper, star all-rounder and game-changer.

But injuries permitting, Stokes should be available for the full campaign this time round or at least some of it. But he won’t be skipper because of his possible unavailability should England decide to rest him for some matches. David Willey takes over as captain.

Out go spinner Mujeeb Ur Rahman, Lynn and Dane Vilas. In come Faf du Plessis, Dwayne Bravo, Wahab Riaz and veteran David Wiese, who had a brilliant T20 WC with Namibia late last year.

London Spirit

A disastrous 2021 season saw them finish rock bottom with just the one win in eight, with six losses and a no-result.

It was a big shock for cricket fans because they looked well-balanced and led by the ever-steady hand of Eoin Morgan.

Among those who saved face last year were unheralded bowlers Blake Cullen and Brad Wheal, who took 10 and nine wickets respectively.

With the bat, Australian keeper-batsman Josh Inglis was the best of a bad bunch with 173 runs in seven innings.

But Inglis won’t be back for them this year, though they do have a ready-made replacement in fellow Australian keeper/batsman Ben McDermott, fresh from a fine T20 Blast tournament and being the top runscorer in this year’s Big Bash.

World class all-rounder Glen Maxwell and Kieron Pollard join the team for this season, as does Aussie quick Riley Meredith.

Roelof van der Merwe, Mohammad Amir, David Wiese and Mohammad Nabi are among those who have moved on from last season.

Oval Invincibles

The Invincibles finished fourth, one spot and one point off the playoff places in 2021.

Needing to win their final match of the Group Stages against the Southern Brave to progress, they posted 134/7, which was chased with five balls to spare.

England opener Jason Roy was good with 186 runs; Will Jacks and Sam Billings also contributed with 146 and 143 runs respectively.

Overseas Spin twins Sunil Narine and Tabraiz Shamsi were each good for seven wickets which wasn’t as many as sometime England man Tom Curran, who took 10. Narine was his usual economical self, going at just 6.08 runs an over.

South African pair Shamsi and Colin Ingram are among those who have left the franchise with Riley Rossouw coming in as a straight swap for Ingram, with Pakistani Mohammad Hasnain and Aussie batsman Hilton Cartwright also among the new faces.

They’ll be able to count on the Curran brothers- Tom and Sam- who give the side good balance as genuine all-rounders.

Sam Billings stays on as skipper after a good season leading the side, keeping wicket and scoring plenty of quick runs.

Manchester Originals

The Originals finished fifth last season, winning three out of seven, losing four and having a no-result in there, as well.

A win in their last game against the Trent Rockets would have seen them leapfrog the Rockets into third place and make the playoffs but it wasn’t to be.

Having posted 135/8, they were on the receiving end of a typically good and controlled 52 from Dawid Malan, enough to get the Rockets home with five balls to spare.

Matt Parkinson, who was recently called up to England’s team in all three formats was their top wicket-taker with nine wickets and was also economical, going at just 5.83 an over, one of the stingiest bowlers in the competition last term.

Veteran Kiwi opener, a real T20/Hundred specialist was somewhat unsurprisingly their top scorer with 165 runs in seven innings.

But they’ll have to make do without Munro this term, who won’t be returning to the side. But there are some pretty good players coming in to make up for that.

Readers of this site will know how highly we rate Andre Russell, while Sean Abbott is a steady hand as the Big Bash’s all-time top wicket-taker and also joins up for the season.

But their most important player of all might be fellow new arrival Hasaranga de Silva.

The Sri Lankan spinner was the top wicket-taker at last year’s World Cup, is fresh from a good season in the IPL and is one of the hottest properties in white-ball cricket at the moment.

Southern Brave

Last year’s winners. They finished second on 11 points in the Group Stages, winning four, losing three and having a no-result thrown in there as well, like lots of other teams.

A runner-up spot meant they had to do it the hard way by winning two in a row in the Playoffs, rather than just the one match, like table-toppers the Phoenix.

In the Eliminator, they put in a superb performance with the ball to reduce the Rockets to 96 not out after a bowling masterclass from Marchant de Lange, who took 2-16.

An anchoring innings from James Vince (45 off 27) was enough to get them home with ease.

In the final against the Birmingham Phoenix, they did it the other way round, batting first and getting a big total of 168/5 thanks to a superb 61 off 36 from Irish smasher Paul Stirling.

In the end the Phoenix ended 32 runs short.

That man Vince was a key player for them last season, ending as the third-highest scorer in the competition with 229 runs. Quinton de Kock and Alex Davies each scored 202 runs

This season they’ll be hoping injury-prone English duo Tymal Mills and Jofra Archer stay fit and take lots of wickets because there isn’t much beyond that pair with the ball and it would be disastrous if one, or both, broke down.

This season they’ve really beefed up their batting.

De Kock is joined by fellow big-hitters Marcus Stoinis, Finn Allen and Tim David as overseas batsmen but there’s a danger that their bowling looks a bit light.

Birmingham Phoenix

The Phoenix finished the Group Stages last season in first place, sending them straight to the final.

They had an excellent record of 6/2 in terms of wins and losses, the most important of those being in their final Group match against the Northern Superchargers when they chased a competitive-looking 144 with minimum fuss, giving them the points they needed to finish top.

And that was all mostly down to Liam Livingstone.

Now an established player for England in white-ball cricket, he took 3/25 in that match and followed it up with an astonishing 92 off 40 with the bat.

Livingstone was also their main man in the final, smashing 46 off 19 to give them hope against the Brave, but ultimately falling short.

He ended the season as the top runscorer (348) by some distance, took five wickets and was also the Player of the Series.

So they’ll be glad that he’s around again this year.

Imran Tahir and Finn Allen have left with Matthew Wade and Kane Richardson coming in.

Mooen Ali leads the side again while evergreen veteran Benny Howell will be an important player for them with all of his experience.

Trent Rockets

It was a pretty decent first season for the Rockets, finishing in third place in the Group Stages with five wins and three losses.

At one stage they looked very much the team to beat after winning their first three games but their third-place finish meant they had to do it the hard way and play the Eliminator.

It was a shame that they saved one of their worst performances of the season for such a big game.

Their strong Top 3 of Dawid Malan, Alex Hales and D’Arcy Short managed just 23 runs between them and a 20 off 21 from Samit Patel was as good as it got, as they dragged themselves to just 96 all out, never enough to beat the Southern Brave.

South African quick Marchant De Lange was their stand-out man with the ball by taking 12 wickets, none more so than when he took 2/16 in the Eliminator which set up their win against the Southern Brave.

Malan was their best player with the bat, scoring 214 runs.

They’ll be able to count on a good top order with Malan, Hales and newcomer run machine Colin Munro on board, while Joe Root is sure to feature much more than last year.

Daniel Sams is there too with his fast bowling and huge hits with the bat, while Samit Patel has seen and done it all before.

As always, the leg spinner will be the key man and they’ll be hoping he can add some runs to his wickets and economy rate.

Welsh Fire

They finished the Group Stages in seventh place, recording just three wins from eight.

They actually started well, winning both of their first two games but then lost their next five, giving themselves far too much to do and wondering about what might have been.

In a poor season, Ben Duckett (232) and Glenn Phillips (214) were two of the few shining lights, ending as the second and fifth highest runscorers in the competition.

A clue as to where it all went wrong is that David Payne was their top bowler with six wickets, meaning their best bowler was ranked just 29 in the tournament for most wickets taken.

Their batting looks very strong.

Captain Jonny Bairstow is in the form of his life, Duckett had an excellent season last year and Tom Banton is a big prospect and will surely be a big player for England in the future.

David Miller, who was brilliant for IPL winners Gujarat this year, adds late hitting and a wealth of experience. English duo Joe Clarke and Josh Cobb are pretty handy at this level, as well.

Adam Zampa will be their chief spinner and he’s joined by two left-field overseas picks in Afghan Noor Ahmad and Pakistani Naseem Shah.

They’ll need their batters to go well because their bowling looks a bit on the thin side.