Cricket Betting Tips: T20 Best Bets For Today 29 May

The 2026 Indian Premier League play-offs continue on Friday, and our cricket betting tips turn to Mullanpur as Gujarat Titans face Rajasthan Royals in Qualifier 2.

The winner books a spot in the final against RCB; the loser goes home.

GT finished second in the league phase on 18 points but were brushed aside by Royal Challengers Bengaluru in Qualifier 1, losing by 92 runs in Dharamsala on Monday after being bowled out for 162 chasing 255. Shubman Gill's side had won four on the bounce before that flop and will look to regroup at a venue they have never played at.

RR are riding momentum. Riyan Parag's men beat Sunrisers Hyderabad by 47 runs in the Eliminator on Wednesday at this very ground, with Vaibhav Sooryavanshi smashing 97 off 29 balls in an innings that broke records on multiple fronts. However, strip out the Eliminator and the must-win against Mumbai, and the Royals lost three of their last five league games to scrape into the play-offs in fourth.

Cricket Betting Tips: Sooryavanshi To Hurt GT Again

The all-time head-to-head sits 6-3 in GT's favour across nine IPL meetings, including the 2022 final. The 2026 season series is split 1-1: RR won by six runs in Ahmedabad in April, while GT won by 77 runs in Jaipur in May.

For RR, there is only one name to focus on. Vaibhav Sooryavanshi grabbed the Orange Cap on Eliminator night with a tally of 680 runs at a strike rate of 242.86, and his 65 sixes for the season has broken Chris Gayle's all-time IPL record of 59 set back in 2012. The 15-year-old has 168 runs in his three career innings against GT.

The best cricket tips today from James are available via 10bet, and odds are correct as of 11:00pm UK time on Thursday 28 May.

Sai Sudharsan is the GT top-bat favourite at 4/1, but with Mullanpur's average first-innings score in IPL 2026 sitting at 214, the higher-strike-rate batter has the better top-bat angle. RR have won all three of their outings at New Chandigarh this season, and Sooryavanshi just posted the highest strike rate (334.48) in any 90+ IPL innings on this very pitch. At 12/5 with 10bet to top-score for RR, Sooryavanshi looks excellent value. Over 22.5 match sixes also looks fair on a flat deck with 67-metre square boundaries.

T20 tips: Archer The Difference At The Death

Gujarat's headline names remain Sai Sudharsan and Shubman Gill. Sudharsan sits second on the Orange Cap list with 652 runs at a strike rate of 157.87, Gill third on 618 at 159.28. At 4/1 to top-score for GT, however, neither is short of competition with Jos Buttler also pushing.

The angle for RR is the death overs. Jofra Archer has emerged as the most dangerous new-ball and back-end bowler in the IPL, with 24 wickets at an average of 21.42, and he has dismissed Gill three times in six IPL innings. Against a Gujarat top order that depends heavily on Sudharsan and Gill's powerplay scoring, Archer's overs at the back end are where the match is decided. At 9/4 with 10bet to be RR's top wicket-taker, he is our cricket best bet from the bowling unit.

That said, Gujarat have won three of their four meetings since 2022, and Kagiso Rabada (26 wickets) and Rashid Khan (4/33 vs RR earlier this month) will not let them roll over. But the form, the venue, and the matchups all point one way. Rajasthan Royals at 4/5 to win the match is T20 prediction for this one.