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In the 18th season of the Indian Premier League (IPL), Lucknow Super Giants will face Sunrisers Hyderabad today. The match will be played at Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Stadium (Ekana) of Lucknow from 7:30 pm. Both teams will be face to face this season. In the last match, Lucknow defeated Hyderabad by 5 wickets.
The expectations of Lucknow Super Giants are on the results of this match. If this match wins LSG, then their expectations will remain but if they lose then they will be completely out of the playoffs. Lucknow has 10 points in 11 matches and has 3 matches left. At the same time, Hyderabad, which is out of the playoffs, has 6 points with 3 wins in 11 matches.
Match details, 61st match LSG vs SRH date- 18 May Stadium, Lucknow Time: Toss- 7:00 PM, Match Start- 7:30 PM
Hyderabad won only one match against Lucknow
Lucknow has been able to stay in Hyderabad IPL only once. So far 5 matches have been played in the league between Hyderabad and Lucknow. Lucknow won 4 matches and Hyderabad won 1. A match was played at the Ekana Stadium. It was won by Lucknow by 5 wickets.
Shardul LSG’s top wicket
Wicketkeeper-batsman Nicholas Puran has scored the most runs for Lucknow. He has scored more than 400 runs in 11 matches so far. At the same time, Shardul Thakur has taken the most wickets for the team. Shardul has taken 12 wickets in 9 matches.
SRH’s batting fails
SRH has an aggressive salute pair of Travis Head and Abhishek Sharma, but the pair has disappointed the initial matches. Ishaan Kishan was also demonstrated. Ishaan scored a century in the first match, after which there was no big innings with his bat. Abhishek is the top scorer of the team. He has scored 314 runs in 11 matches this season. Harshal Patel is the top bowler of the team.
Pitch report Spinners dominated the IPL on the Ekana pitch. A total of 19 IPL matches have been played here so far. In 8 matches, the teams who batting first and 10 won. One match was also inconclusive. The highest team score of the ground is 235/6, which was made by Kolkata Knight Riders against Lucknow last year.
Weather condition Lucknow will have very strong sunlight and very hot on Monday, the wind will also be strong. The wind speed will be 19 km per hour. The temperature here will be between 29 and 40 degrees Celsius on the match day.
Possible playing-12 Lucknow Super Giants: Rishabh Pant (captain and wicketkeeper), Aden Markram, Mitchell Marsh, Nicholas Puran, Ayush Badoni, David Miller, Abdul Samad, Shardul Thakur, Digvesh Singh Rathi, Avesh Khan, Ravi Bishnoi, Prince Yadav.
Sunrisers Hyderabad: Pat Cummins (Captain), Heinrich Klassen (wicketkeeper), Abhishek Sharma, Travis Head, Ishaan Kishan, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Aniket Verma, Kamindu Mendis, Harshal Patel, Jaydev Unadkat, Zeeshan Ansari, Mohammed Shami.