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The Indian Premier League (IPL) will face the Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) in the last league match of 2025 from Royals Challengers Bangalore (RCB). The match will start at 7:30 pm at Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ekana Cricket Stadium in Lucknow. Both teams will be face to face for the first time this season.
Currently, Bengaluru is at number three in 13 matches with 8 wins, 4 defeats and 17 points from a benti match. If the team has to play qualifier-1 by staying in the top-2, then it will have to win this match. At the same time, Lucknow, which has already been out of the tournament, would like to say goodbye this season with victory.
LSG is currently ranked seventh in the points table. The team has 6 points after 6 wins and 7 defeats in 13 matches. If Lucknow wins this match, Sunrisers will leave Hyderabad behind and come to sixth position.
Match details, 70th match LSG vs RCB date- 27 May Stadium- Ekana Cricket Stadium, Lucknow Time: Toss- 7:00 PM, Match Start- 7:30 PM
RCB ahead of a match in Head to Head
So far 5 matches have been played between RCB and LSG in the history of IPL. RCB has won 3 matches and 2 matches LSG have won their names. In the 2024 season, both teams clashed in just 1 match. The match was won by Lucknow by 28 runs. In IPL 2023, both teams won 1-1 matches.
Marsh-Markeram in Fantastic Form
Openers of Lucknow Super Gynts are in excellent form. In the last match, LSG defeated Gujarat by 33 runs. In that match, Mitchell Marsh scored a century and Nicholas Puran scored a half -century. Rishabh Pant, who is running in poor form, will try to play a good innings in the last match.
Mitchell Marsh is the fourth highest run scorer of this 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 runs in the last match. Marsh’s partner Aiden Markram has scored 445 runs in 13.
Digvesh Rathi, who was out of the previous match due to the ban in the bowling department, is LSG’s top wicket. He has taken 14 wickets in 12 matches so far. The team has bowlers like Shardul Thakur, Ravi Bishnoi and Avesh Khan to support him.
Kohli top batter, Hazelwood returns
Virat Kohli is the best batter of RCB. He 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. Bangalore lost by 42 runs against Hyderabad in their last match. In that match, captain Rajat Patidar played as an impact player. He had a finger injury.
Josh Hazlewood has returned to the fourth highest wicket of the season in bowling. Amidst Indo-Pak tension, Hazelwood moved to his home to Australia. After which there was talk of not coming back. However, Hazlewood has re -joined the Bangalore camp. He has taken 18 wickets in 10 innings with an average of 17.27.
Pitch Report and Toss Factor
Bharat Ratna Atal Bihari Vajpayee of Lucknow has a black and red clay pitch at the Ekana Cricket Stadium. Due to which, sometimes low-scoring and sometimes high-owning matches are seen. On the red clay pitch, fast bowlers get more bounce and speed, due to which the ball comes properly on the bat and the batsmen play big shots. At the same time, the ball gets stuck slightly on black mud pitches, due to which spin bowlers get more turn.
Dew is also a factor in the matches played so far in the league stage of IPL 2025. In the second innings due to dew, the bowlers have difficulty in gripping the ball, taking advantage of which it becomes easy for the batting team to chase. In such a situation, the toss will play an important role. The toss winning captain would like to choose the first bowling.
The IPL has played 21 matches so far at the Lucknow Stadium. In this, the team that batted first has won 9 matches, while the chase team has won 11 matches. A match has been inconclusive at the same time.
Weather condition
There is no possibility of rain in Lucknow and Bengaluru matches in Lucknow. However, during this time there will be strong heat. The temperature is expected to be between 35 degrees to 42 ° C.
Possible playing of both teams 11
Lucknow Super Gynts (LSG): Rishabh Pant (captain and wicketkeeper), Mitchell Marsh, Eden Markram, Nicolas Puran, Ayush Badoni, Abdul Samad, Himmat Singh, Digvesh Rathi, Akash Deep, Avesh Khan, and William Ourke.
Royals Challengers Bangalore (RCB): Silver Patidar (Captain), Phil Soult, Virat Kohli, Jitesh Sharma (wicketkeeper), Tim David, Romio Shepherd, Krunal Pandya, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Yash Dayal, Josh Hazlewood and Suyash Sharma.
