Today, Lucknow Super Giants will face Delhi Capitals in the 26th match of the Indian Premier League. This match will be played at Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee (ICANA) Stadium in Lucknow from 7.30 pm. The toss for the match will take place at 7 o'clock. This will be Lucknow's fifth match in the 17th season. LSG has 6 points from 4 matches with 3 wins and 1 loss. The team is at third place in the points table. At the same time, this is the sixth match of Delhi. DC have 2 points from 5 matches with just 1 win and 4 losses. The team is at 10th place in the points table.
If we talk about head to head between the two teams, then so far 3 matches have been played between Lucknow Super Giants and Delhi Capitals in IPL. Lucknow won all the matches. Only one match was played between the two teams in Lucknow, in which the home team won by 50 runs.
Lucknow has not had a good start this season. The team had to face defeat against Rajasthan Royals in its first match. After this the team won the last three matches consecutively. On the other hand, Delhi Capitals continues to perform poorly this season. The team could win only one match out of five. The team faced defeats against Punjab Kings, Rajasthan Royals, Kolkata Knight Riders and Mumbai Indians. DC's only win came against Chennai Super Kings.
Spinners dominated the Lucknow pitch in IPL. There were low scoring matches here and the batsmen had a lot of difficulty in scoring runs. So far 9 IPL matches have been played here. The highest score here is 199, which LSG scored against Punjab Kings in the same year.
Teams probable playing-11
Delhi Capitals: Rishabh Pant (captain and wicketkeeper), Prithvi Shaw, David Warner, Axar Patel, Abhishek Porel, J Richardson, Khaleel Ahmed, Tristan Stubbs, Anrich Nortje, Lalit Yadav, Ishant Sharma.
Lucknow Supergiants: KL Rahul (captain and wicketkeeper), Deepak Hooda, Marcus Stoinis, Ayush Badoni, Quinton de Kock, Nicholas Pooran, Krunal Pandya, Ravi Bishnoi, Yash Thakur, Naveen-ul-Haq, Mohsin Khan.