Chennai Super Kings vs Sunrisers Hyderabad: Chennai to register their first win

Two teams have not started the campaign like they wished to and have no wins to their name to go head to head in the 17th game of the tournament. We finally will have one team out of these two with a win after todays game.

Chennai Super Kings

Chennai seems to have a hangover from the last IPL. They played three games and were destroyed by the opponents in all three of them. The men in yellow are not able to find their Mojo, whether it is average batting performance, mediocre bowling, or the change in captaincy it's for them to figure it all out. This will be their fourth game in the tournament and losing this will come with great consequences to the point of no return.

Chennai Super Kings Predicted Lineup

Ruturaj Gaikwad, Robin Uthappa, Moeen Ali, Ambati Rayudu, Ravindra Jadeja (c), Shivam Dube, MS Dhoni (wk), Rajvardhan Hangargekar, Dwaine Pretorius, Chris Jordan, Maheesh Theekshana/Dwayne Bravo

Sunrisers Hyderabad

Sunrisers are bottom of the table with two games in the tournament. They suffered a massive defeat of 61 runs against the Royals which impacted their net run rate. They were not able to chase down the target of 169 against Lucknow Super Giants in their second game. With Kane Williamson not contributing enough at the top of the order is a major concern for them. They need a steady head to bat throughout the innings.

Sunrisers Hyderabad Predicted Lineup:

Rahul Tripathi, Kane Williamson (c), Aiden Markram, Nicholas Pooran (wk), Abhishek Sharma, Abdul Samad, Romario Shepherd, Washington Sundar, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, T Natarajan, Umran Malik/Kartik Tyagi

Expert betting tips

Pitch will assist both the spinners and pacers, it's up to them how they'll take advantage of it. As it is an afternoon game the dew factor is not there so ideally the team batting first will have an advantage. As it is a do-or-die situation and the relative form of the two teams we are backing CSK to win the game in a low scoring match.

Prediction

• CSK to win for 1.73;
• Total Under 337.5 Runs for 1.81;
• Total Runs, Over Number 1 Under 5.5 for 1.725