IPL 2025: Lucknow Super Giants vs Delhi Capitals Match Preview, IPL 2025

4th T20 • Dr. Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium • Visakhapatnam

Lucknow Super Giants

209/8 (20)

Delhi Capitals

211/9 (19.3)

DC won by 1 wicket

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Date & Time

24 Mar, 07:30 PM IST

Venue

Dr. Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium, Visakhapatnam

TV/Streaming

JioHotstar, Star Sports Network

Match

4th T20,

Indian T20 League 2025

Points Table

Schedule

Stats

Umpires

Abhijit Bhattacharya (India), Ulhas Gandhe (India), Virender Sharma (India, TV)

Referee

Narayanan Kutty (India)

Toss

Delhi Capitals elected to bowl

Pitch Report

There was a bit of weather coming in, hopefully, it keeps away from this game. The shortest boundary is 56 meters and the longest boundary is 73 meters long. It is hard, even. Not much grass as the curator has been rolling the pitch nonstop for a month. Normally we get a track where the runs are there and this looks pretty much the same. It looks good, 180 is quite possible and anything more than that will give you a competitive edge. Bowlers will get some protection with the longer boundaries in place

1st Innings

157Avg Runs

7Avg Wkts

135.58Avg SR

2nd Innings

143Avg Runs

6Avg Wkts

138.43Avg SR

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Points Table

Head To Head (Last 10 Matches)

2- 3

LSG

Team Form (Recent 5 Matches, Latest First)

Delhi Capitals

Lucknow Super Giants

Player of the Match Ashutosh Sharma

66(31)

Lucky Winner ARVIND SUMAN

LSG

Info

Lucknow Super Giants

209/8 (20)

Batters

Aiden Markram

115.38

c Starc b Nigam

Mitchell Marsh

200.00

c Stubbs b Kumar

Nicholas Pooran

250.00

b Starc

Rishabh Pant

0.00

c Plessis b Yadav

David Miller

142.11

Not out

Ayush Badoni

80.00

c Stubbs b Yadav

Shardul Thakur

0.00

runout (Porel / Patel)

Shahbaz Ahamad

112.50

c (sub Vijay) b Starc

Ravi Bishnoi

0.00

b Starc

Digvesh Singh

0.00

Not out

Extras

(B: 0, LB: 2, NB: 1, W: 4)

TOTAL

(20 Ov, RR: 10.45)

209/8

Did not Bat

Prince Yadav, Manimaran Siddharth

Bowlers

EXT

Mitchell Starc

10.50

Axar Patel

6.00

Vipraj Nigam

17.50

Mukesh Kumar

11.00

Kuldeep Yadav

5.00

Mohit Sharma

10.50

Tristan Stubbs

28.00

Fall Of Wickets

SCORE

OVER

Aiden Markram

c Starc b Nigam

1-46

4.4

Mitchell Marsh

c Stubbs b Kumar

2-133

11.4

Rishabh Pant

c Plessis b Yadav

3-161

13.4

Nicholas Pooran

b Starc

4-169

14.5

Ayush Badoni

c Stubbs b Yadav

5-177

16.2

Shardul Thakur

runout (Porel / Patel)

6-177

16.4

Shahbaz Ahamad

c (sub Vijay) b Starc

7-194

18.4

Ravi Bishnoi

b Starc

8-194

18.6

Delhi Capitals

211/9 (19.3)

Batters

Jake Fraser-McGurk

50.00

c Badoni b Thakur

Faf du Plessis

161.11

c Miller b Bishnoi

Abishek Porel

0.00

c Pooran b Thakur

Sameer Rizvi

100.00

c Pant b Manimaran Siddharth

Axar Patel

200.00

c Pooran b Singh

Tristan Stubbs

154.55

b Manimaran Siddharth

Ashutosh Sharma

212.90

Not out

Vipraj Nigam

260.00

c Manimaran Siddharth b Singh

Mitchell Starc

40.00

c Pant b Bishnoi

Kuldeep Yadav

100.00

runout (Yadav / Pant)

Mohit Sharma

50.00

Not out

Extras

(B: 0, LB: 0, NB: 0, W: 8)

TOTAL

(19.3 Ov, RR: 10.82)

211/9

Bowlers

EXT

Shardul Thakur

9.50

Manimaran Siddharth

9.75

Digvesh Singh

7.75

Ravi Bishnoi

13.25

Prince Yadav

11.75

Shahbaz Ahamad

1.3

14.67

Fall Of Wickets

SCORE

OVER

Jake Fraser-McGurk

c Badoni b Thakur

1-2

0.3

Abishek Porel

c Pooran b Thakur

2-2

0.5

Sameer Rizvi

c Pant b Manimaran Siddharth

3-7

1.4

Axar Patel

c Pooran b Singh

4-50

5.3

Faf du Plessis

c Miller b Bishnoi

5-65

6.4

Tristan Stubbs

b Manimaran Siddharth

6-113

12.3

Vipraj Nigam

c Manimaran Siddharth b Singh

7-168

16.1

Mitchell Starc

c Pant b Bishnoi

8-171

17.1

Kuldeep Yadav

runout (Yadav / Pant)

9-192

18.3

Match Info

Date & Time

24 Mar, 07:30 PM IST

Venue

Dr. Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium, Visakhapatnam

TV/Streaming

JioHotstar, Star Sports Network

Match

4th T20,

Indian T20 League 2025

Points Table

Schedule

Stats

Umpires

Abhijit Bhattacharya (India), Ulhas Gandhe (India), Virender Sharma (India, TV)

Referee

Narayanan Kutty (India)

Toss

Delhi Capitals elected to bowl

W 0 1 1 0 1

Over 17

Runs: 3

W 0 1 6 4 6

Over 18

Runs: 17

4 0 W 2 6 4

Over 19

Runs: 16

0 1 6

Over 20

Runs: 7

All Overs

Player of the Match Ashutosh Sharma

66(31)

Lucky Winner ARVIND SUMAN

Commentary

What a game. Isn't that what IPL is all about? While the Kohli's, Dhoni's, and Rohit's have etched their name in IPL history, young Ashutosh's, Vipraj's, and Digvesh's come and put in a telling performance for their side. This has been Lavil Saldanha signing off alongside Arya. Join us tomorrow at 6:30 pm IST for the match between Gujarat Titans and Punjab Kings. Till then, keep following Sportskeeda for the latest in the world of sports. SEE YA!

Ashutosh Sharma (Player of the Match, Delhi Capitals): I have learned this in the last year, got the team close but couldn't end it. Throughout the season, I focussed on the same and that is why I was able to close this match out on such a stage. I believed in myself that if I played till the end game, I could do anything. Just believe where you can hit the ball and play the shots that you have practiced. He played a fine knock, I told him if you are getting it right, keep hitting. There wasn't much pressure and the hard we had put in before and we have got the fruit of it now. Dedicate this to my mentor Shikhar paaji

Axar Patel (captain, Delhi Capitals): Get used to it, anything could happen in my captaincy. I make random decisions, but with the way I have played IPL over the years, I know anything could happen. Cricket has changed, you need to apply yourself according to the situation. Haven't seen bowlers take a beating, started around last year, and with the Impact Players it is an added incentive to the batting side. You do not think you are going to be hit and things could go either way. The way their first six overs went I thought we gave away a bit too much, but we did well in the last 7 overs to give away 40-odd runs. We thought they would score 240-250, but then when they scored 200, we were confident. (For youngsters like Ashutosh and Vipraj Nigam) We have been organizing a camp for the week and we have been seeing them put in the hard work. We have seen him play well and hopefully he comes well in the future games

Kuldeep Yadav wins the Award for bowling the most Dot Balls

Nicholas Pooran wins the On The Go 4s of the Match award

Nicholas Pooran wins the Super Sixes of the Match award

Nicholas Pooran wins the Fantasy King of the Match award

Vipraj Nigam wins the Super Striker of the Match award

11:35 PM IST and local time: Time now for the post-match presentation ceremony

Faf du Plessis: First of all what you reckon of the new kit. Amazing game of cricket. Lot of cricketers would complaint the new rule but this obviously the rule is there. When you are absolutely dead and buried, there is someone who can come and win the game. Looked at the wicket and saw the ball was gripping. I thought it was going to be almost an impossible start. The extra batter is a huge plus. The amount of Indian players that are so powerful and can hit easily. The two boys who came in the end, it was effortless hitting. He remained of the 438 when Makhaya Ntini took the single. Most important single Mohit Sharma has taken to give strike to Ashutosh to finish the match. Lots of life in the old dog, there is a lot of movement now as far as IPL. New challenge here, really good chapter for me. The last chapter for me however long the chapter is I will cherish that.

Rishabh Pant (LSG captain): The runs were enough on the board. We might have lost the momentum in the middle overs but I felt it was a great sixes. We are trying to take the positives from each and every game and make it count in the next game. It's easy to say that all went wrong. We had to keep doing the basics right. They had to two good partnerships. Stubbs, Ashutosh and Vipraj which helped. We could have done the basic more. It was difficult to bowl in the second innings but we could have bowled better. No definitely, luck plays a batter. If it would have missed the pad, definitely there would have been a stumping chance but we can't really say what luck holds.

11:19 PM Local time and IST: Delhi Capitals beat Lucknow Super Giants by 1 wicket

Delhi Capitals: 211/9 in 19.3 overs

Ashutosh Sharma: 66(31b)* | Digvesh Singh: 2/31 (4 overs)
Vipraj Nigam: 39(15b) | Shardul Thakur: 2/19 (2 overs)

A CLASSIC IPL HUMDINGER! Breathe ladies and gentlemen, let the adrenaline levels come down. Let your heart relax after it was racing all throughout. Delhi Capitals have snatched victory from the jaws of defeat, while Lucknow Super Giants stood there all this while, making inroad after inroad but standing with loss next to their name and efforts in vain.

Where to we start? 210 was always going to be a competitive total to chase down and the start for DC was unforgiving, with Shardul Thakur doing an equivalent of Gayle vs KKR 2011 and picking up two wickets against his former IPL franchise. Wickets fell at regular intervals, with Sameer Rizvi falling cheaply and Axar Patel being caught in the deep.

Faf, another experienced batter at the other end, did a fine job of scoring runs despite wickets falling around him. He too became a victim, succumbing to the scoring rate and DC reeling on 65/5 and then to 113/6 with Stubbs walking back. Enter Vipraj Nigam and Ashutosh Sharma, Delhi's heroes for this contest. Together, the pair put together 55 runs in 22 deliveries before the latter was dismissed.

More drama ensured as Mitchell Starc and Kuldeep Yadav lost their wickets at regular intervals. But Ashutosh, standing without a helmet at the other end, was going through all the calculations of the chase on his end. When 6 were needed, Mohit Sharma survived a very close LBW shout. He then tucked the ball around and picked up the single that tilted the game in DC's favor by a bit. As fate would have it, Ashutosh thumped it down the ground and ended the game as DC romped home with a one-wicket win.

One's got to feel for DC, who are without their premier bowlers but still did a very good job. Shardul Thakur did a very good job, picking up two wickets. So did Manimaran Siddharth, Digvesh Singh and Ravi Bishnoi. However, runs leaking all the time off the bowling of Bishnoi, Prince Yadav and Shahbaz Ahamed was what cost them in the end of the contest.

19.3 Shahbaz Ahamad to Ashutosh Sharma, SIX! Ashutosh Sharma has finished it off in style!!! They were absolutely dead and buried at one stage but he has pulled off the unthinkable! Was in the slot around the middle stump channel, clears his front leg and slams it back over the bowler's head, lands on the sightscreen and DC win by 1 wicket. What an incredible turnaround!

19.2 Shahbaz Ahamad to Mohit Sharma, on a fuller-length around off, eased away defensively towards the point fielder, fumble from the fielder allows Ashutosh to retain the strike back. 5 needed off 4.

Harakiri, drama, everything happening on that delivery. That one is missing the stumps quite comfortably. Mohit survives but needs to get Ashutosh on strike. 6 runs needed off 5 balls here

19.1 Shahbaz Ahamad to Mohit Sharma, that's a splendid delivery from Shahbaz and Rishabh has taken review for an LBW. A flighted delivery pitching on a fuller-length around middle and turns away sharply, deceives Mohit in the air and he gets overbalances, strikes him on the back leg but replays confirm that it was turning past the off-stump and Mohit survives.

Delhi Capitals need 6 runs to win in 6 balls. Mohit Sharma on strike, Shahbaz Ahamad [1-0-15-0] to bowl

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overs

204 /9 score

runs

Ashutosh Sharma *

60 (30)

Mohit Sharma

0 (0)

Prince Yadav

0 /47

18.6 Prince Yadav to Ashutosh Sharma, FOUR! This is a knock for the ages for Ashutosh, a low full toss around the middle stump channel, slammed away with a vertical bat, finds the gap down towards the deep midwicket boundary. 6 needed off 6 now.

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