Rajasthan Royals can make it two in a row
The team that will win the second Indian Premier League (which starts today) is the one which is exactly that - a team. Punters searching for value in a competition where each outfit has as many superstars as each other, have only that to go on. So praise be to Rajasthan Royals, last year’s winners. They have all the ingredients to be successful for a second year running.
They have the continuity that we are searching for. They do not have superstar players coming and going every two weeks, do everything together (they have been bonding in South Africa by watching the current ODI series) and they all have nicknames to help forge relationships between players who are normally bitter rivals.
The brains behind it all is Shane Warne. On the field he is not bad, either. His shrewd captaincy alone is worth at least 20 runs.
Graeme Smith, the South Africa captain, will be charged with scoring the runs while Shaun Tait and Morne Morkel the wickets. In Dimitri Mascarenhas and Yusuf Pathan they have the two best all-rounders, too. At around 11/1 in the outright market we think they are a cracking bet.
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