Cricket Indian Premier League Betting Odds

Competition: Indian Premier League

Sport: Cricket

Region: India

Matches and betting odds

Upcoming fixtures, live betting odds and bookmaker lines load in the interactive table once the app has started.

About this competition

Indian Premier League – Next Matches & Betting Insights

The Indian Premier League - the most unpredictable and wild ride in T20 cricket - remains the place to be for anyone looking for some serious action. As the next set of matches come up, getting a grasp on what's happened in the past - namely, how prices have moved and teams have performed - is crucial to making sense of those current match odds.

Recent Season Analysis

Across recent seasons (2023–2026 window), internal analysis of completed IPL matches shows:

  • Favourites win approximately 65% of matches
  • Underdogs win roughly 35%
  • 22% of matches are won at odds 2.00+
  • Average winning price: 1.92
  • 40% of matches feature a 200+ first innings
  • 43% exceed 350 total runs

How to Interpret IPL Match Odds

Favourite Pricing in IPL

With a 65% favourite win rate, the market generally performs efficiently. However, the remaining 35% underdog success rate highlights consistent upset potential.

When analysing upcoming matches:

  • Favourites (≤1.60) are not immune to variance.
  • Matches priced in the 1.70–2.10 range often behave closer to statistical coin flips.
  • Teams priced at 2.00+ still convert at a meaningful frequency.

Scoring Environment & Match Dynamics

The way the ball behaves in an IPL match has a massive impact on both the bets you place before the game and while it's in progress.

We're looking at a league which loves to throw up big scores - 40% of the time, a team will knock up over 200 in their first innings, and 43% of the time they'll go on to score over 350 in total. You can bet your bottom dollar that some aggressive batting strategies get the nod - and then there are the powerplays and death overs to think about - all of which can turn the tables on your win probability in a flash.

When it comes to the next set of matches, there are a few key things to bear in mind:

  • What's the state of the pitch at each venue?
  • Does that ground have a scoring bias?
  • How deep is each team's batting lineup, and can they see out a tough finish?
  • How strong is the attack when it comes to the last few overs?

And it's not just the big picture stuff - small differences in team balance can make all the difference to how many runs a team will score, and where the market is headed.

Key Teams in Upcoming IPL Fixtures

Several clubs consistently influence both pricing and public betting behaviour:

  • Mumbai Indians
  • Chennai Super Kings
  • Kolkata Knight Riders
  • Royal Challengers Bengaluru
  • Sunrisers Hyderabad
  • Gujarat Titans

Star Players

Upcoming IPL matches are heavily influenced by the availability and role of elite players such as:

  • Virat Kohli
  • MS Dhoni
  • Rohit Sharma
  • Jasprit Bumrah
  • Shubman Gill
  • Andre Russell

Changes in batting order, captaincy decisions or late injury updates frequently lead to measurable price movement before match start.

Why Upcoming IPL Matches Are Structurally Volatile

Several features make the IPL fixtures stand out from the run-of-the-mill T20 series:

  • The way teams build their squads through auctions means that quality can change overnight.
  • Player rotation has a real impact on lineup stability.
  • With a different ground each time, scoring expectations can change in an instant.
  • All those boundaries make comebacks more likely than in any other competition.

And to top it all off, 35% of the time the underdog gets up and runs away with it, so even the most strongly favoured teams carry some genuine risk.

Data Methodology

All the stats we've been talking about here come from OddsRun's internal match database, covering the last 3 seasons - 2023 to 2026.

We're working with:

  • Match odds at the end of the game
  • Who won and who got the better of it
  • The score in the first innings
  • How many runs were scored in total

We only looked at completed matches - and we used closing prices to get a handle on what the market was saying at the end of the day. That way, we can compare it year to year with some consistency.

The data itself is compiled and processed independently on the OddsRun platform.