The Indian Premier League (IPL) will face the Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) in the last league match of 2025 against Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB). The match will start at 7:30 pm at the cricket stadium of Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ek from Lucknow. Both teams will play against each other for the first time this season.
Currently, Bengaluru is third in 13 matches with 8 wins, 4 defeats and 17 points with an unwanted match. If the team wants to play qualifier-1 in the top-2, it is necessary to win this match under every circumstances. On the other hand, Lucknow will want to say goodbye this season with Lucknow victory already out of the tournament. Also, if LSG wins, Gujarat will benefit. Because of his victory, Gujarat will remain in Top-2.
LSG is currently ranked seventh in the points table. The team has 12 points after 6 wins and 7 defeats in 13 matches. If Lucknow wins this match, Sunrisers will leave Hyderabad back and come in sixth place.
Match Details, 70th Match LSG vs RCB Date: 27 May Stadium: Ek's Cricket Stadium, Lucknow Time: Toss – 7:00 PM, Match Starts – 7:30 PM
RCB in the Head to Head ahead of a match So far 5 matches have been played in the history of IPL between RCB and LSG. The RCB has won in 3 matches, while LSG has made 2 matches. In the 2024 season, the two teams played in just 1 match. Lucknow won the match by 28 runs. In IPL 2023, both teams made 1-1 matches in their own name.
Marsh-Marker in the wonderful form Lucknow Super Giants openers are in excellent form. In the previous match, LSG beat Gujarat by 33 runs. In that match, Mitchell Marsh scored a century and Nicholas floods half a century. Rishabh Pant, who is in bad form, will try to play a good innings in the final match.
Mitchell Marsh is the fourth highest score of the season. He has scored 560 runs in 12 innings with an average of 46.66 and a strike rate of 161.84. He scored 117 in the previous match. Marsh opening colleague Eden Marker has scored 445 runs in 13 matches.
Digesh Rathi, who has not played in the previous match due to the ban in the bowling department, is a LSG's top wicket -taker. He has taken 14 wickets in 12 games so far. The team has bowlers like Shardul Thakur, Ravi Bishnoi and Ashesh Khan to support it.
Kohli Top Better, Hazelwood's return Virat Kohli has been RCB's best batter. It has so far scored 548 runs in 12 innings with an average of 60.88 and a strike rate of 145.35, including 7 half centuries. Bengaluru suffered a 42 -run defeat against Hyderabad in the previous match. He played as captain Rajat Patidar Impact Player in the match. He suffered a finger injury.
Josh Hazelwood has returned to bowling. In the midst of Indo-Pak tensions, Hazelwood moved to his home Australia. After which he was talking about not returning. However, Hazelwood has re -joined the camp in Bengaluru. He has taken 18 wickets at an average of 17.27 in 10 innings.
Pitch Report and Toss Factor Bharat Ratna Atal Bihari Vajpayee of Lucknow has a black and red clay pitch at the cricket stadium of Ek. Because of this, low-scoring and sometimes high-scoring matches are seen. Fast bowlers get more bounces and motion on a red clay pitch, causing the ball to come well on the bat and the batters play big shots. On the other hand, the ball hangs a little on a black clay pitch, which gives the spin bowlers more turns.
The mist has also been an important factor in the match played so far in the league phase of IPL 2025. In the second innings, the bowlers have difficulty gripping the ball in the second innings, which makes it easy to chase the run for the batting team. Toss will play an important role in such a situation. The captain who won the toss will prefer to bowl first.
IPL has played 21 matches at Lucknow Stadium so far. The first batting team has won 9 matches, while the chase team has won 11 matches. One match has been inconclusive.
Weather condition There is no possibility of rain in Lucknow and Bengaluru matches in Lucknow. However, there will be intense heat in the meantime. The temperature is expected to be between 35 degrees and 42 degrees Celsius.
Potential Playing-12 (including Impact Player) of both teams
Lucknow Super Giants (LSG): Rishabh Pant (captain and wicketkeeper), Mitchell Marsh, Eden Markerm, Nicholas Puran, Ayush Badoni, Abdul Samad, Himmat Singh, Digvesh Rathi, Akash Deep, Aash Khan, William Ororc.
Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB): Rajat Patidar (Captain), Phil Salt, Virat Kohli, Jitesh Sharma (wicketkeeper), Tim David, Romario Shepherd, Karnal Pandya, Bhubaneswar Kumar, Yash Dayal, Josh Hazelwood, Suyash Sharma.
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