Northamptonshire vs Worcestershire match prediction 15 Sep 2020

Northamptonshire vs Worcestershire | Top Bets from this Encounter

Northamptonshire will take on Worcestershire in match number 66 of the Vitality T20 Blast 2020 at the County Ground, in Northampton, on September 15, Tuesday.

Northamptonshire will be looking to seal that top spot on the Central Group points table with a win over a struggling Worcestershire tomorrow. Gloucestershire have a tough tie against Warwickshire and the former is likely to give in and that would mean Northamptonshire have a really good opportunity to make it to the top. Worcestershire, on the other hand, have struggled and in no way they can make it to the quarter finals of the ongoing edition of the Vitality T20 Blast. While the two teams prepare to lock horns at the County Ground in Northampton tomorrow, we will be preparing to fill our accounts with cash as I have unearthed three of the best markets to bet on from this game. Let's get started.

Northamptonshire to win

The markets that I have opted for you to bet on today are a bit risky all of them in fact, but where is the fun without risk in cricket betting? However, at times more than the risk, the current form comes into play and that is exactly what I am going to bank upon for this particular market. Northamptonshire Steelbacks have been in good form and they have won four out of their seven matches and have lost just one game. Worcestershire Royals, on the other hand, are struggling at the bottom of the Central Group points table with just one win and five losses so far. In the last nine head-to-head meetings between these two teams, Northamptonshire Steelbacks have managed to emerge victorious on six occasions. In 12 head-to-head clashes at the County Ground in Northampton, Northamptonshire Steelbacks have had the last laugh on seven occasions. Bet 365 is offering odds of 1.72 for a Northamptonshire Steelbacks win and the odds are indicative of the forms of both teams and by now, you must have understood who you have to bet on!

Paul Stirling to score at least 23 runs

The 30-year-old all-rounder from Belfast, Ireland, brings in a lot of experience and that has helped Northamptonshire to stay afloat in the race to the quarter finals so far. Paul Stirling has the experience of 224 T20 matches and 5678 runs at an average 26.78 including one century and 40 half centuries. Quite unsurprisingly, Paul Stirling is the highest run getter for Northamptonshire in this ongoing season of the Vitality T20 Blast with 164 runs in six matches at an average of 32.80. Paul Stirling has played just one match against Worcestershire Royals and he was smoking hot in that game earlier this season. The attacking right hander smashed an unbeaten knock of 80 runs in 49 balls powering his side to a nine-wicket victory. In this calendar year, Stirling has played 17 T20 matches and has gone on to score 500 runs at an average of 29.41. He has now played 99 games in the Vitality T20 Blast and has gone on to score 2510 runs at an average of 25.35. All the scenarios that I have mentioned so far are working in our favour and that is when I ask you to go over to the Bet 365 website and place your bets as it is offering odds of 1.83.

Worcestershire to hit more sixes in the game

Now this is the risky market I was talking about earlier in this piece and we have every right to take this amount of risk as the odds offered by Bet 365 is 2.05. Worcestershire Royals may lose out on most of the departments to Northamptonshire Steelbacks but they have that little fire in them to win the race of sixes tomorrow. In the last five head-to-head encounters between these two sides, Northamptonshire Steelbacks clobbered 38 sixes whereas Worcestershire Royals could hit only 30 of them. Don't get bogged down with that piece of stat as I am going to back the Royals in the next two scenarios as I have enough data to do so. Worcestershire Royals have managed to smash 33 sixes so far in this season and Northamptonshire Steelbacks could only hit 22 of them. In the previous season of the Vitality T20 Blast, Worcestershire Royals smashed a whopping 101 sixes and, on the other hand, Northamptonshire Steelbacks could only manage 57 of them. If this is a risk you are willing to take just like me, then you should not be wasting any more time as the odds could plummet by the time the game begins tomorrow.

My Picks:

Northamptonshire to win - @ 1.72 (Bet 365)

Paul Stirling to score at least 23 runs - @ 1.83 (Bet 365)

Worcestershire to hit more sixes in the game - @ 2.05 (Bet 365)