By Admin 
Lucknow Super GIANTS vs Mumbai Indians: Today the 16th match of IPL 2025 will be played between Lucknow Super Giants and Mumbai Indians. Both teams will clash at the Home Ground Ekana Stadium in Lucknow. Rishabh Pant’s Lucknow Super Giants and Hardik Pandya’s Mumbai Indians will clash at Ekana Stadium in Lucknow. This season is not going well for both teams. Mumbai Points is at number six in the table, while Lucknow is at number seven.
In IPL 2025, Hardik’s Mi has played three matches so far. During this time, he has won only one match. The good thing is that Mumbai’s net run rate is quite good. In such a situation, the team still has a chance to make a strong comeback. Talking about Lucknow, Rishabh Pant has also been able to win only one match for his team. He has suffered defeat in two matches. The net run rate of Lucknow is quite bad. They also have to improve this.
Pitch report
Talking about the pitch report of Ekana Stadium in Lucknow, there are not much big scores here, but it has been seen that it becomes easy to score in the second innings. In such a situation, the team winning the toss can decide to bowl first. The Lucknow team could score 170 runs in their last match at this ground, which was chased by Punjab Kings very easily.
Match prediction
Mi’s team is stronger on paper. However, the match winner batsmen of Lucknow are present. Bowling is a weak link of Lucknow. Our match is showing heavy in Mumbai in this match. Nevertheless, the chase team is more likely to win.
Potential playing XI of Lucknow Super Giants- Michelle Marsh, Aidan Markram, Nicholas Puran, Rishabh Pant (wicketkeeper/captain), Ayush Badoni, David Miller, Abdul Samad, Digvesh Singh Rathi, Shardul Thakur, Avesh Khan, Ravi Bishnoi, Prince Yadav/Akash Deep
Mumbai Indians’ potential playing XI- Rohit Sharma, Ryan Reh Ricelton (wicketkeeper), Will Jacks, Suryakumar Yadav, Tilak Verma, Hardik Pandya (captain), Naman Dhir, Michel St. Narr, Deepak Chahar, Trent Bolt, Ashwini Kumar and Vignesh Puthur/Satyanarayan Raju