Chennai Super Kings v Sunrisers Hyderabad Prediction, Tips and Bet Builder

Chennai Super Kings' late-season surge took a hit with Friday's seven-wicket defeat to Lucknow Super Giants, but they can still secure a place in the play-offs by winning their final two games.

CSK currently lie in fifth place in the IPL standings, a point behind Punjab Kings directly above them and two behind their next opponents, Sunrisers Hyderabad, who will be no pushovers as they look to lock down a place in the top four.

Chennai are paying the price for a slow start to the campaign when they lost their opening three games, although winning six of their next nine has at least kept them in the running for the play-offs.

Hyderabad have plotted a similar path, losing three of their opening four games before surging up the standings on the back of a five-match winning run.

However, the Sunrisers are looking to bounce back after being dismissed for 86 in their most recent outing, a second defeat in their last three games, against Gujarat Titans.

Chennai Super Kings v Sunrisers Hyderabad Tips Summary

Best Bet: Chennai Super Kings to win @ 11/10
Alternative Bet - Heinrich Klaasen Sunrisers Hyderabad top batter @ 15/4
Bet Builder Tip - Anshul Kamboj 2+ wickets, Sanju Samson over 24.5 runs & Abhishek Sharma 20+ runs @ 6/1

Chennai Super Kings v Sunrisers Hyderabad Prediction

Best Bet: Chennai Super Kings to win @ 11/10

Sunrisers won the season's first meeting between the two but only narrowly by 10 runs with home advantage, so Chennai look good value to exact revenge.

The Super Kings have won six of their last nine games, while they have been particularly dominant of late, recording victory margins of 103 runs, two by eight wickets and one by five wickets in their last four wins.

They do go into this on the back of a defeat but so too do Sunrisers, who were dismissed for a mere 86 in their chase of 168-5 against Titans last time out, while the hosts have won five of their last six games against Hyderabad at the MA Chidambaram Stadium.

With their play-off lives very much on the line, CSK look good value as the outsiders to record an upset win and take their destiny to the final game.

Alternative Bet: Heinrich Klaasen Sunrisers Hyderabad top batter @ 15/4

There is plenty of firepower in the SRH batting line-up and Heinrich Klaasen looks a tempting price to top score for the side given his overall consistency, not to mention his big-hitting capabilities.

Klaasen leads the side as well as rank fifth in the IPL having smashed 508 runs at an average of 50.80, having played one less innings than all but one of those above him in the standings, while batting a little lower down the order too.

While some of his team-mates have been a little more hit and miss, Klaasen has rarely failed this season, top-scoring with 69 in the recent win over Punjab Kings as one of his five half-centuries so far.

Chennai Super Kings v Sunrisers Hyderabad Bet Builder Tip

• Anshul Kamboj 2+ wickets
• Sanju Samson over 24.5 runs
• Abhishek Sharma 20+ runs
  
  Pays 6/1

Only two bowlers have taken more wickets than Anshul Kamboj up to this point and his tally of 19 scalps includes seven multi-wicket games out of 12, including figures of 3-22 in the first meeting against Hyderabad.

Sanju Samson is the only batter to have scored two centuries so far this season and, although he has had his ups and downs, recent innings of 87 not out, 28 and 20 suggest he is finding his form once again.

Abhishek Sharma has had a great season so far, amassing 481 runs at an average of 43.72 and staggering strike rate of 209.13.

He has registered recent scores of 59, 135 not out, 57, 45, 15, 35 and 6 and 20 looks well within his reach after registering a half-century in the first game against Chennai.

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Key Match Stats

• Sunrisers Hyderabad have won seven and lost five of their 12 games to lie third in the standings
• Chennai Super Kings have won and lost six games so far to lie fifth on 12 points
• Sunrisers enjoyed a 10-run win over the Super Kings in the first meeting between these two last month
• Chennai have won five of six games against SRH in Chepauk
• SRH's Heinrich Klaasen is fifth in the IPL having scored 508 runs, which includes five half-centuries
• CSK's Sanju Samson is the only player to have scored two centuries this season
• Chennai's Anshul Kamboj has taken 19 wickets in 12 games to sit third in the IPL's wicket-taking stats

Tactics, Form and Team News

Dian Forrester has replaced the injured Jamie Overton in the CSK squad, while the legendary MS Dhoni is close to a first appearance of the season.

Expected Chennai Super Kings XI: 1 Sanju Samson (wk), 2 Ruturaj Gaikwad (capt), 3 Urvil Patel, 4 Kartik Sharma, 5 Dewald Brevis, 6 Shivam Dube, 7 Prashant Veer, 8 Akeal Hosein, 9 Anshul Kamboj, 10 Spencer Johnson, 11 Noor Ahmad, 12 Mukesh Choudhary.

Left-arm spinner Harsh Dubey is expected to return to the SRH fold to try and exploit CSK's largely right-handed batting line-up,

Expected Sunrisers Hyderabad XI: 1 Abhishek Sharma, 2 Travis Head, 3 Ishan Kishan (wk), 4 Heinrich Klaasen, 5 R Smaran, 6 Nitish Kumar Reddy, 7 Salil Arora, 8 Pat Cummins (capt), 9 Harsh Dubey, 10 Shivang Kumar, 11 Eshan Malinga, 12 Sakib Hussain.

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