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The Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) will face Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) in the 59th season of Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025 today. The match will be played at Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Stadium in Lucknow from 7:30 pm.
Both teams will be face to face for the first time this season. Lucknow had to face defeat by 37 runs to Punjab in their last match. At the same time, Bengaluru defeated Chennai Super Kings by 2 runs in their last match.
For Lucknow, who has lost 6 out of 11 matches, this match is of do or die in terms of playoffs for Lucknow. If the team loses, it will be out. At the same time, the points in the points table, RCB, would like to further strengthen their position in the knockout. The team has 16 points with 8 wins in 11 matches.
Match details, 59th match LSG vs RCB date- 9 May Stadium- Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Stadium, Lucknow Time: Toss- 7:00 PM, Match Start- 7:30 PM
A winning difference in head to head
A total of five matches have been played between Lucknow Super Giants and Royal Challengers Bangalore so far in the IPL. Out of which RCB has won three matches, while LSG has won two matches. In this way, RCB currently has a match lead. At the Ekana Cricket Stadium, only 1 match has been played between the two teams. Bangalore won in this.
Kohli can become the top scorer today
Virat Kohli has scored the most runs from RCB. He will also become the top run scorer of the tournament as soon as he scored 6 runs. Josh Hazlewood is the top bowler of the team with 18 wickets. He could not play the previous match due to injury. If Hazlewood plays today, you can become the top wicket of the tournament with 3 wickets.
Digvesh Rathi LSG’s top bowler
Nicholas Puran has scored the most runs for Lucknow Supergiants, but he could not perform anything special with the last few matches. In bowling, spinner Digvesh Rathi is at the top with 12 wickets.
Dhumal said- match will be on fixed schedule
IPL chairman Arun Dhumal said on Thursday night, ‘The match between Lucknow and Bangalore on Friday will be on the scheduled schedule. We are understanding the situation, no instructions have been received from the government. At present, the match to be held in Lucknow is not being stopped, but if the government gives any order, it will be followed.
The Punjab-Delhi match could not be held in Dharamshala on Thursday due to the war between Indo-Pak.
Pitch report The pitch of Ekana Stadium in Lucknow is a bowling-friendly. The spinner gets more help here. Low scoring matches have been seen here. A total of 19 IPL matches were played in this stadium. The first batting team won 8 and the team that bowled first also won 10 matches. 1 match was also canceled. The highest team score of the ground is 235/6, which was made by Kolkata Knight Riders against Lucknow Super Giants last year.
Weather report Today, there will be clouds with sunshine in Lucknow. There is 25% fears of rain. The temperature is expected to be 27 to 37 degrees Celsius.
Possible playing-12 Lucknow Super Giants of both teams: Rishabh Pant (captain and wicketkeeper), Aden Markram, Mitchell Marsh, Nicholas Puran, Ayush Badoni, David Miller, Abdul Samad, Avesh Khan, Mayank Yadav, Digvesh Rathi, Akash Singh, Mitchell Marsh.
Royal Challengers Bangalore: Rajat Patadir (captain), Jacob Bethel, Virat Kohli, Jitesh Sharma (wicketkeeper), Tim David, Romio Shepherd, Krunal Pandya, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Lungi Enggidi, Yash Dayal, Suyash Sharma, Devdutt Padikkal.