Cricket Betting Tips: T20 Best Bets For Today 31 May

The 2026 Indian Premier League reaches its climax on Sunday, and our cricket betting tips head to Ahmedabad as defending champions Royal Challengers Bengaluru face Gujarat Titans in the IPL Final at the Narendra Modi Stadium.

RCB finished top of the league phase on 18 points and have had four days off since brushing GT aside in Qualifier 1. Andy Flower's side posted 254/5 in Dharamsala on Monday - the highest total in IPL playoff history, beating GT's own 233/3 set at this very ground in 2023 - with Rajat Patidar smashing 93 not out off 33 balls before the bowlers rolled GT for 162. Patidar's 281.81 strike rate is the highest for any captain in a fifty-plus IPL score.

GT are riding some fresh momentum of their own. Shubman Gill's side also finished on 18 points but were pipped to first on net run rate. After the Qualifier 1 hammering, they responded in style at Mullanpur on Friday, chasing 215 against Rajasthan Royals with eight balls to spare - Gill scoring 104 off 53 balls, with his hundred coming up in 47 deliveries, the fastest ever in an IPL playoff. His 167-run opening stand with Sai Sudharsan (58 off 32) is now the highest partnership for any wicket in IPL playoff history, eclipsing the 159 added by Hussey and Vijay in the 2011 final.

Cricket Betting Tips: Kohli To Cap The Defence

The all-time head-to-head sits 5-4 in RCB's favour across nine IPL meetings. The 2026 season series is 2-1 to Bengaluru - RCB won by five wickets at Chinnaswamy in April, and by 92 runs in Qualifier 1, while GT won by four wickets at the Narendra Modi Stadium on 30 April. This is the first IPL Final between the two.

For RCB, there is one outstanding name to focus on. Virat Kohli has 600 runs at an average of 50.00 and a strike rate of 164.38 this season - his best campaign since the 973-run 2016 - with one hundred and four fifties. He leads the RCB-GT rivalry on 344 runs, became the first batter to 800 IPL fours this year, and is 12 months on from finally ending that 18-year title wait.

The best T20 betting tips rom James are available via 10Bet, and odds are correct as of 8:00am UK time on Sunday 31 May.

Kohli is the outright top-batsman favourite at 7/2, ahead of Sudharsan and Gill at 4/1 each. With Phil Salt's finger injury leaving him doubtful, RCB will lean even harder on their in-form captain.

At 7/2 with 10bet to top-score in the final, Kohli is our top tip for today.

T20 tips: Hazlewood On Familiar Ground

Gujarat's headline names remain Shubman Gill (722 runs) and Sai Sudharsan (710), with Sudharsan suffering the same hit-wicket dismissal in back-to-back knockout games.

The angle for RCB is the death overs. Josh Hazlewood took 22 wickets in 12 matches en route to last year's title and bowled the two dot balls that mathematically sealed the 2025 Final on this very square. Bhuvneshwar Kumar is the 10bet favourite for top RCB wicket-taker, but Hazlewood at 13/5 is our T20 tip from a bowling angle.

That said, GT beat RCB at the Narendra Modi Stadium only a month ago, and Kagiso Rabada (28 wickets and the Purple Cap leader after Qualifier 2) and Rashid Khan will not let them roll over. But the form, the rest, and the matchups all point one way. Royal Challengers Bengaluru at 4/5 to win the match is our T20 prediction for this one.