The 24th match of the Indian Premier League season takes place in Delhi on April 29th, with last year’s champions Mumbai Indians taking on the Rajasthan Royals. Our expert tipster is picking a win for the Mumbai Indians based on both sides’ starts to the season.
Mumbai Indians v Rajasthan Royals
29th April
Arun Jaitley Stadium, Delhi
Live on Sky Sports Cricket
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Mumbai Indians have had a rocky start to the year, and both of these sides have actually lost two games this season already. Royal Challengers Bangalore were big underdogs on opening day, but they and the Delhi Capitals have both scored big wins over the 2020 play-off winners. Meanwhile, The Rajasthan Royals lost twice – to the Chennai Super Kings and the Punjab Kings, who have not looked great this year. They beat Delhi Capitals, who beat Mumbai Indians, but that cricket maths won’t do you right at the bookmakers.
Mumbai Indians v Rajasthan Royals Odds
The Mumbai Indians are looking pretty good for their favourites tag in this game, coming in at a price of 10/19. The RR are underdogs at the price of 27/20. If you’re enough of a daredevil to back a draw, you’ll get wide odds of 14/1, which we can’t recommend due to the unlikeliness of the result in this sport, including no draws ever in this fixture.
Mumbai Indians v Rajasthan Royals Betting Tips
These sides have faced each other 23 times, and have identical win rates of 11 a piece. In the last three years, the Mumbai Indians have only won once, so historians may be going for the underdogs here.
Rohit Sharma to be Mumbai Indians’ top batsman – 9/4
He won this market last time out against the Delhi Capitals, as we predicted, so we’re going for Rohit Sharma to be the top batsman for the Mumbai Indians again.
Squads
Mumbai Indians Squad
Rohit Sharma, Quinton de Kock (WK), Suryakumar Yadav, Ishan Kishan (WK), Chris Lynn, Anmolpreet Singh, Saurabh Tiwary, Aditya Tare, Kieron Pollard, Hardik Pandya, Krunal Pandya, Anukul Roy, Jasprit Bumrah, Trent Boult, Rahul Chahar, Jayant Yadav, Dhawal Kulkarni, Mohsin Khan, Adam Milne, Nathan Coulter-Nile, Piyush Chawla, James Neesham, Yudhvir Charak, Marco Jansen, and Arjun Tendulkar.
Rajasthan Royals Squad
Sanju Samson, Jos Buttler, Ben Stokes, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Manan Vohra, Anuj Rawat, Riyan Parag, David Miller, Rahul Tewatia, Mahipal Lomror, Shreyas Gopal, Mayank Markande, Jofra Archer, Andrew Tye, Jaydev Unadkat, Kartik Tyagi, Shivam Dube, Chris Morris, Mustafizur Rahman, Chetan Sakariya, KC Cariappa, Liam Livingstone, Kuldip Yadav, Akash Singh.
For more betting odds on the 2021 Indian Premier League, head over to the NetBet Cricket page.
*Odds are subject to change.