Lucknow Super Giants vs Delhi Capitals, IPL 2025: Lucknow Super Giants will face Delhi Capitals in their ninth league match of IPL 2025 on Tuesday (April 22). Match No. 40 of this year’s IPL is scheduled to take place at Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ekana Cricket Stadium in Lucknow. In the last IPL 2025 match played between the two teams in Visakhapatnam on March 24, DC rode on an unbeaten half-century from Ashutosh Sharma to chase down the target of 210 runs in 19.3 overs for the loss of nine wickets. The 26-year-old right-handed batter would like to repeat the same show on Tuesday as well and help Delhi Capitals complete the double over the Lucknow-based franchise. DC are coming into Tuesday’s match after suffering a big defeat by 7 wickets against Gujarat Titans on Saturday (April 19), and on the other hand, LSG managed to get the better of Rajasthan Royals by 2 runs in the last match played at Sawai Mansingh Stadium in Jaipur. Aiden Markram and Ayush Badoni scored half-centuries for LSG in the last match, and the home fans will want captain Rishabh Pant to also come up with a big show with the bat. Pant scored a half-century in LSG’s last IPL 2025 match at Ekana Stadium against CSK. LSG vs DC Match: Lucknow Weather Forecast According to AccuWeather, the temperature will remain in the range of 24 to 40 degrees Celsius in Lucknow on Tuesday. There are negligible chances of rain playing spoilsport. LSG vs DC: Ekana Stadium Pitch Report In four IPL 2025 matches played this year at Ekana Stadium in Lucknow, the team batting second has managed to win on three occasions. The average first innings total in Lucknow this year is 180. In the last IPL 2025 match played at Ekana Stadium, LSG could only manage to post a total of 166 runs, and it was easily chased down by CSK in 19.3 overs for the loss of five wickets. LSG vs DC Match: Lucknow Super Giants vs Delhi Capitals Head-to-Head Record IPL 2025 LSG vs DC Match: Lucknow Super Giants vs Delhi Capitals Probable Playing XI Lucknow Super Giants’ probable XI: Aiden Markram, Mitchell Marsh, Nicholas Pooran, Rishabh Pant (C & WK), Ayush Badoni, David Miller, Abdul Samad, Shardul Thakur, Digvesh Rathi, Avesh Khan, Ravi Bishnoi Impact players: Mayank Yadav/Prince Yadav/Akash Deep Delhi Capitals’ probable XI: Karun Nair, Abishek Porel, KL Rahul (WK), Axar Patel, Tristan Stubbs, Ashutosh Sharma, Vipraj Nigam, Mitchell Starc, Kuldeep Yadav, Mukesh Kumar, Mohit Sharma Impact players: Jake Fraser-McGurk/Sameer Rizvi Players to watch Nicholas Pooran: Nicholas Pooran is LSG’s best batter in the IPL this year. The former West Indies T20I captain was retained for Rs 21 crore by the Lucknow-based franchise ahead of the IPL 2025 mega auction, and in eight matches played so far, with the help of four fifties, he has scored 368 runs. In the last IPL match played between LSG and DC in Vizag on March 24, Pooran hammered 75 runs from just 30 balls and helped Rishabh Pant & Co. post a total of 209 runs on the board for the loss of eight wickets. He would like to come up with a big show on Tuesday once again and also extend his lead at the top of the Orange Cap leaderboard. Kuldeep Yadav: Star Indian spinner Kuldeep Yadav has accounted for the dismissal of 12 batters in seven IPL matches played so far this year. Apart from taking a dozen wickets, Kuldeep has not leaked runs, and he would like to make life difficult for LSG batters once again on Tuesday. In the last IPL match played between the two teams, Kuldeep finished with figures of 2 for 20 in four overs.