The 2026 Indian Premier League is underway, with some of South Africa’s top cricket stars once again in the heart of the action.
Among them is the Proteas T20 captain Aiden Markram is back in the IPL, alongside the likes of David Miller, Quinton de Kock, and Kagiso Rabada. International retiree Heinrich Klaasen is also still active in the IPL, representing Sunrisers Hyderabad, while highly rated youngster Dewald Brevis is a star for Chennai Super Kings.
The IPL provides some of the best cricket in the world, and there’s a Gbets sign up bonus to use on all the fast-paced action. This can be used on the outcomes of games, as well as how the South African stars of the IPL perform.
These are some of the major markets that you can use to back the best South African players in the IPL.
Top Batter/Top Bowler
The most popular way to back an individual player in the IPL is to pick who’ll be the top batter or top bowler. There are typically choices for the top performers on each team, and who’ll be the best batter or bowler in the whole game.
These markets are popular because they’re easy to follow. The top batter is simply the player who scores the most runs, while the top bowler is the one who takes the most wickets. It’s not uncommon for two bowlers to each take the same amount of wickets, so the tiebreaker usually used is who gave up the fewest runs.
Most Fours & Most Sixes
Another popular way to bet on the batsmen in the IPL is who’ll get the most fours and sixes. Like with the top batter markets, there are choices on whether to take a team’s boundary leader, or who’ll get the most throughout the game.
This has become a particularly important betting market thanks to the pitches being used in the IPL this year. The league has prepared flatter wickets, giving bowlers far less assistance and shifting focus more towards the batters. This has lead to a huge upswing in the number of boundaries hit, making this a key betting market for backing the batsmen.
Player run totals
Another market that’s benefitted from the flatter IPL wickets is betting on the total runs a player will get. Depending on where you bet, this market can be presented in two different ways.
The simplest is a ‘Yes/No’ market on whether a batsman will score a fifty, or whether they’ll score a century. For example, a bet on ‘Yes’ for de Kock to score 50 or more runs would win as soon as he passes that benchmark.
The other way this market is sometimes presented is with each batsman being given an under/over total. With this method, for instance, de Kock could be given a benchmark score of 37.5 runs. The bet is then on whether he goes over or under that. If he went on to score 37 or fewer runs, then the under would hit. If de Kock scored 38 or more, then the over would win.
No matter how your betting site offers run totals, the wicket changes in the IPL make it one of the most exciting markets to back.
