New Delhi. Delhi Capitals, captained by Akshar Patel, will clash with Lucknow Super Giants in their 8th match of IPL 2025 on Tuesday. In this match, Delhi's bulls will have to give a real examination in front of the bowlers of Lucknow. Because the openers of Delhi have not yet returned to form this season. In such a situation, it will be the responsibility of giving the team a great start. However, there are more than one bowler in the hosts who are currently performing better. Delhi has won 5 out of 7 matches. He is second in the points table with 10 points while this will be the 9th match of LSG. He has won 5 out of 8 matches. LSG is currently at number 5 in the point table.
The openers of Delhi have not yet been able to perform expected in the current season. He has so far tried three combinations with four batsmen as an opening pair. But despite this, his team has been able to play a partnership of 23, 34, 00, 09 and 00 runs for the first wicket in the last five matches. Delhi has so far tried Faf du Plessi, Jake Fraser-Macgark, Abhishek Porel and Karun Nair as openers but have not got the expected results. It is also related to Du Plessi's injury and before this match, the fitness of the South African player will be closely monitored.
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The performance of Delhi's openers has not yet been noticed as his team has won five of the seven matches. And the middle order of KL Rahul has done well. But the Lucknow team has skilled bowlers like Digvesh Rathi, Ravi Bishnoi, Avesh Khan and Shardul Thakur in front of whom Delhi batsmen will have to play carefully. Lucknow defeated Rajasthan Royals by two runs in the last match due to the brilliant bowling of Avesh Khan's death overs, which would definitely increase his team's morale. With this, her team showed that she can win under any circumstances.
In contrast, the Lucknow team has three dhakad batsmen in the top order as Mitchell Marsha, Nicholas Puran and Aiden Makram, who has so far played an important role in winning the team with their good performance. Delhi and Lucknow have so far scored 10-10 points by performing well, but the performance of the captains of both teams has not been good yet. Struggling to score Rishabh Pant's run is a matter of concern for Lucknow. He has scored only 106 runs in eight matches so far, including an innings of 63 runs. His strike rate is 98 which is a matter of concern.
Pant will have to deal with the best bowling unit of Mitchell Starc, Kuldeep Yadav, Vipraj Nigam and Mukesh Kumar against Delhi. Delhi captain Akshar Patel has also not been able to perform as expected yet. In batting, he has scored 140 runs at a strike rate of 159 but his bowling is a matter of concern. He has been able to take only one wicket in seven matches so far and his economy rate is 9.36.
The teams are as follows:
Lucknow Super Giants: Rishabh Pant (wicketkeeper/captain), Eden Maqram, Michel Marsh, Nicholas Puran, Ayush Badoni, Abdul Samad, David Miller, Shardul Thakur, Avesh Khan, Akash Deep, Digvesh Singh Rathi, Ravi Bishnoi, Prince Yadav, Shahbaz Ahmed, Mathew Breetzke, Himmat Singh, Shamar Joseph, Shamar Joseph, Manimaran Juan, R.S. Hangragkar, Yuvraj Chaudhary, Akash Maharaj Singh, Mayank Kulkarni, Arsheen Yadav.
Delhi Capitals: Akshar Patel (Captain), Jake Fraser-Macgark, Abhishek Porel, Karun Nair, KL Rahul (wicketkeeper), Triston Stabs, Ashutosh Sharma, Vipraj Nigam, Mitchell Starc, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohit Sharma, Mukesh Kumar, Sameer Rizvi, Darshan Nalakande, Donova Farera, Tripurana Vijay, Dushmantha Chamira, Dushamtha Chami, Faf Duf Ajay Jadav Mandal, Manwant Kumar L, Madhav Tiwari.
