IPL Player Betting Guide

Like prop betting, there are plenty of profits to be made in the IPL player betting markets. In this section, we’ll teach you how to find individual players that will shine in 2021 and the different IPL awards up for grabs.

More importantly, we’ll tell you how to separate the wheat from the chaff in terms of IPL player betting.

It’s not an exact science—nothing in cricket satta is—but follow these golden rules and you’ll certainly be on the right track. The IPL player bets listed here should give you a decent run for your money.

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IPL Player betting Odds for Top Batsman

The odds for IPL 2021 top batsman are out on Betway. Check out the odds table and place your bets accordingly:

Who Will Win The Orange Cap?

Shikhar Dhawan is in the form of his life and is currently holding the orange cap. He is the current favorite with odds of 2.62 to be IPL 2021 highest runscorer. Next comes Faf du Plessis with odds of 5.50. Rohit Sharma has odds of 12.00 on Betway to be the tournament’s highest run-scorer in IPL 2021 and rightly so.

If you are interested in IPL player betting, you can place your bet on Shikhar Dhawan to win the orange cap taking his recent form into consideration. Place your bets on Betway now.

IPL Top Batsman Bet – Things to watch out for

Every year, the top run-scorer in the IPL is awarded the Orange Cap for scoring the most runs in the competition. As an added quirk, the in-season leader gets to wear the special orange cap, as a badge of honor.

For the record, the inimitable Virat Kohli, Indian skipper in all three formats no less, is the highest run-scorer in IPL history. So, does that make him an automatic choice for a top run-scorer in 2021? Absolutely not, and we’re about to tell you why.

Let’s take a look at the requirements to win the Orange Cap and what it takes to be successful in Orange Cap betting.

Plays Every Match

It sounds obvious, but dismiss this first factor at your peril. We mean two things here:

First, a batsman must play every match rather than coming in and out of the team. Pay special attention to overseas players who aren’t automatic choices. Because you can only play four overseas players in one game, they’re most at risk of being rotated depending on how team management decides to utilize its overseas players.

It’s one thing betting on David Warner, who will be the first name on the team sheet for the Sunrisers Hyderabad, but it’s quite another betting on Faf du Plessis of the Chennai Super Kings, who’s far less likely to play every match as an overseas player.

Openers Only

Want to know what all 12 winners of the Orange Cap have in common? They were all opening batsmen. Every single one of them. And before you say: “what about Kohli in 2016, who bats at three?” We’ll pre-empt that question by pointing out that yes, he does normally bat at three, but that season he didn’t: he opened the batting.

So why do openers always win the Orange Cap? Simple. Because they’re the only ones who are guaranteed to bat, they can potentially bat the whole 20 overs, so there’s no limit on how many runs they can score in a game. By opening the batting, these players are also around for the first six Powerplay Overs when the ball is hard and easier to whack. Also, it’s during the first six overs that the field is in and there’s far less protection on the boundaries.

Quality Is Key

Ticking the first two boxes alone doesn’t cut the mustard in Orange Cap betting. Just because someone is an opener and plays every game doesn’t automatically make them a good bet.

Just take a look at that list of Orange Cap winners: Sachin Tendulkar, David Warner, Chris Gayle, Mike Hussey, Kane Williamson … some of the finest players ever to pick up a bat in anger.

Consider a player’s T20 average (average number of runs for each time they’re dismissed), and strike rate (average number of runs per 100 balls faced). The first tells you how ‘good’ they are, the second tells you how quickly they score their runs. For the record, anything above 40 for the average is excellent, and for the second criterion, you’re looking at players who strike at anything above 120.

Look at it this way: even if a player faces exactly half the balls in an innings (60 balls), they’d only score 60 runs if they had a strike rate of 100. However, if they had a strike rate of 150, they’d score 90 runs off the same 60 balls. That’s a big difference. Add up those 25 or 30 extra runs per inning over the course of a season because they score so quickly and we’re talking about game-changing numbers, here.

Plays For A Successful Side

Playing for a successful side is arguably the least important factor in Orange Cap contention, but is still worthy of consideration.

If you play every match in the group stages, but don’t play the playoffs, you’ll only ever play 14 matches. But if you make the final, you will have played 16 or 17 matches. Those extra three matches could potentially be worth 150 runs and could make all the difference.  But as we say, it’s not the be all and end-all.

The 14 matches could be enough if you’re good enough. Just look at David Warner. In 2019 he only played 12 matches … and still won it.

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IPL player betting Odds for Top Bowler

Let’s take a look at our favorite picks and best bets to win the Purple Cap at IPL 2021:

Harshal Patel

Harshal Patel is currently leading the Top bowler odds. He has odds of 2.10 on Bet365. He has been a valuable asset for RCB. For Royal Challengers Bangalore to go on and win this season, Harshal Patel will have to carry forward the same form. This player should be on your watchlist and the IPL odds show that.

One To Avoid

Mitchell Starc is as good as anyone, but he’s injury-prone. He’ll be one of the favorites, but there’s no point betting on him if he’s going to end up in the treatment room soon.

IPL Top Bowler Bet – Things to watch out for

If you’re an IPL player and better at having the ball in your hand than a bat, you might be eyeing the Purple Cap awarded to the IPL’s top bowler, or top wicket-taker, as they’re also known.

Similar to the Orange Cap, there are a few golden rules to stick to for IPL player betting for the top bowler.

Let’s take a look at the important points to keep in mind for Purple Cap betting:

Plays Every Match

Playing every match, as mentioned for top batsmen IPL online betting (see above), unsurprisingly applies to bowlers as well. You can’t win the Purple Cap if you’re not an automatic pick, and you’ll only very rarely win it if you leave the tournament early, so it’s important to pay attention to international schedules for your favorite picks in IPL 2021 Purple Cap betting.

Playing for a strong side that goes far in IPL 2021 will give players a better chance of playing more games, and this will of course help a bowler’s chances at claiming the coveted Purple Cap.

Bowls The Full Quota

In T20 cricket, bowlers can bowl a maximum of four overs, or 24 balls (6 balls x 4 overs). So, you want to make sure that your man almost always bowls his four overs. Yes, there will be times when a bowler has a particularly poor game and doesn’t bowl his full quota of four overs because a batsman takes a liking to him and hits him all over the ground … but that could happen to anyone.

What we’re saying is that you want to be picking high-class specialist bowlers who almost always bowl four overs, rather than all-rounders or part-time bowlers who bowl one or two overs per game. After all, you’re a lot more likely to take wickets bowling 24 deliveries than you are with twelve of them.

To use real-life examples, when looking at top bowler satta, go with the likes of Jasprit Bumrah and Sunil Narine who are specialist bowlers that almost always bowl four overs. Ben Stokes and Glenn Maxwell are all-rounders who bowl one or two overs, and occasionally none, so it’s important to get the most out of your IPL player bets and stay informed about which players will have the best opportunities to bowl plenty of overs.

Pace Bowlers Win The Day

On those low, turning Indian wickets, spin can get players into a real tangle and the spinners are going to be the wicket-taking kings, right?

Well, you’d think so, but that really isn’t the case. Have a look at the past winners and you’ll quickly see that only two of them—Pragyan Ojha in 2010 and Imran Tahir in 2019—were spinners. It’s a little hard to believe, but the stats don’t lie.

So, focus on the pace bowlers.

Start And Death Overs

Not only is Tahir an exception in terms of being a spin bowler, but also in terms of not being a ‘start and death’ bowler. By that, we mean bowlers who bowl at the start of an innings and also at the end of an innings, also known as the ‘death’ overs.

Those who bowl in these situations are more likely to take wickets because those are the times when batsmen tend to take more risks. The more risks they take, the more likely they are to get out.

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