Tomorrow's IPL Match: LSG vs DC — who’ll win Lucknow vs Delhi clash? Fantasy team, pitch report and more

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Tomorrow's IPL Match: Lucknow Supergiants (LSG) and Delhi Capitals (DC) will clash on April 12 at the Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ekana Cricket Stadium, also known as Ekana Stadium, in Lucknow. Lucknow, having won 3 out of 4 matches, are at number 3 at the moment. DC, on the other hand, have lost 4 of their 5 matches and are sitting at number 10.

Lucknow and Delhi have played three IPL matches so far. LSG have won all of those. Lucknow’s highest total against DC so far is 195, and Delhi’s highest score against LSG is 189.

These two had their last encounter in 2023 when Lucknow won by 50 runs. Mark Wood’s 5/14 in 4 overs won him the Player of the Match award. KL Rahul (C), Quinton de Kock (WK), David Warner (VC), Marcus Stoinis, Axar Patel, Mohsin Khan, Anrich Nortje, Kuldeep Yadav, Ravi Bishnoi, Devdutt Padikkal, and Ishant Sharma.

Lucknow is known to favour bowlers while batters do get some support at times. The nature of the pitch is not consistent and can only be judged on a given day. In the first T20I that India played at this venue, Rohit Sharma hit a 100 on a turning track as India reached 195.

Very few T20 matches have been played at this venue. The pacers have taken 65 wickets and the spinners 47. The average first innings score here is 155.

In the last match played here, LSG’s Yash Thakur took 5 wickets for 30 in 3.5 overs as Lucknow secured a 33-run victory against Gujarat Titans (GT). In the evening, the temperature will go as high as 39 degrees and later cool down to 24 degrees. There is no chance of rain; the humidity will be around 28 per cent.