Delhi Capitals will kick off their IPL 2025 campaign against Lucknow Super Giants at the Dr. Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium, Visakhapatnam on Monday. Rishabh Pant, the former Delhi Capitals captain, will lead Lucknow Super Giants after he was bagged for a whopping amount of INR 27 crore.
But LSG are hit with injury woes even before their season has started. Shardul Thakur has replaced Mohsin Khan but LSG lacks firepower in their fast bowling department.
LSG have a potent batting order as they have the likes of Mitchell Marsh, Rishabh Pant, David Miller and Nicholas Pooran and they would want the quartet to deliver for the franchise.
On the other hand, former LSG captain KL Rahul will feature for Delhi Capitals. As Axar Patel has been given the leadership role, Rahul can play with more freedom at the top of the order. But Harry Brook has pulled out of the tournament, which is a huge blow for the franchise.
DC ticks all the boxes in their squad but their only concern would be the lack of experience in the lower-middle order.
Head to Head: Matches: 5, Won by LSG: 3, Won by DC: 2.
DC Probable XI: Jake Fraser-McGurk, Faf du Plessis, Abishek Porel, KL Rahul, Axar Patel © , Tristan Stubbs, Ashutosh Sharma, Mitchell Starc, Kuldeep Yadav, Mukesh Kumar, T Natarajan, (Impact Sub: Karun Nair/Mohit Sharma)
LSG Probable XI: Arshin Kulkarni, Mitchell Marsh, Rishabh Pant (c/wk), Nicholas Pooran, Ayush Badoni, David Miller, Abdul Samad, Shardul Thakur, Rajvardhan Hangargekar, Ravi Bishnoi, Shamar Joseph (Impact Sub: Akash Singh/Shahbaz Ahmed/Manimaran Siddarth)
Lucknow Super Giants Squad: Arshin Kulkarni, Mitchell Marsh, Rishabh Pant(w/c), Nicholas Pooran, Ayush Badoni, David Miller, Abdul Samad, Shardul Thakur, RS Hangargekar, Ravi Bishnoi, Shamar Joseph, Akash Deep, Shahbaz Ahmed, Manimaran Siddharth, Akash Maharaj Singh, Aiden Markram, Avesh Khan, Himmat Singh, Matthew Breetzke, Aryan Juyal, Yuvraj Chaudhary, Mayank Yadav, Prince Yadav, Digvesh Rathi.
Delhi Capitals Squad: Jake Fraser-McGurk, Faf du Plessis, Abishek Porel, KL Rahul(w), Axar Patel(c), Tristan Stubbs, Ashutosh Sharma, Mitchell Starc, Kuldeep Yadav, Mukesh Kumar, T Natarajan, Karun Nair, Mohit Sharma, Dushmantha Chameera, Ajay Jadav Mandal, Darshan Nalkande, Sameer Rizvi, Donovan Ferreira, Tripurana Vijay, Manvanth Kumar L, Vipraj Nigam, Madhav Tiwari
