Gujarat Titans defeated Lucknow Super Giants by 7 wickets. This was Gujarat’s second consecutive win in the season. Earlier, Gujarat had to face consecutive defeats in the first two matches. Team Jos Buttler and captain Shubman Gill played half-century innings to help Lucknow win.

Who is ahead in head to head?

If we talk about head to head between Lucknow Super Giants and Gujarat Titans, there is a tough competition here too. Gujarat has defeated Lucknow in four matches so far, while Lucknow has also defeated Gujarat in three matches. Today Rishabh Pant’s team will take the field with the intention of settling the score.

Pitch report of Ekana Stadium, Lucknow

The pitch of Ekana Stadium in Lucknow has improved a lot in the last one year. Now runs have started being scored here. It is the match of the day. In such a situation, the pitch is also expected to be slow. In the first match of this season, Lucknow Super Giants team was all out for 141 runs and after that, Sameer Rizvi’s brilliant innings gave victory to Delhi Capitals. However, Delhi’s top order also collapsed. The weather in Lucknow is expected to be hot and dry this afternoon.

match prediction

Our match prediction meter is telling that in this match also the chasing team will have more chances of victory. However, the contest is 50-50. The team winning the toss can decide to chase the target.

Playing XI of Lucknow Super Giants- Mitchell Marsh, Aiden Markram, Rishabh Pant (wicketkeeper/captain), Ayush Badoni, Nicholas Pooran, Abdul Samad, Mukul Chaudhary, Mohammed Shami, Avesh Khan, Digvesh Singh Rathi and Prince Yadav.

Playing XI of Gujarat Titans- Sai Sudarshan, Shubman Gill (captain), Jos Buttler (wicketkeeper), Washington Sundar, Glenn Phillips, Rahul Tewatia, Rashid Khan, Kagiso Rabada, Mohammed Siraj, Ashok Sharma and Prasidh Krishna.

Lucknow Super Giants team has once again failed on its own home ground. In the match being played at Ekana Stadium, Lucknow team was able to give the target of 164 runs to Gujarat Titans. The pitch of Ekana ground has always been in the news for its slow nature. Except for Kagiso Rabada, all the bowlers of Gujarat proved to be very lethal. Particularly famous was Krishna who single-handedly dismissed 4 Lucknow batsmen.

On the same ground, Delhi Capitals had bundled out LSG for 141 runs, Lucknow had lost that match badly. If we look at the batting of Super Giants, apart from Aiden Markram, no other batsman could even touch the figure of 20 runs. Young batsman Mukul Chaudhary and South African all-rounder George Linde definitely played their hands, but they too were out after scoring 18 runs and 16 runs respectively.

Who is responsible for bad batting?

Lucknow Super Giants had a bad start, whose batsmen could not stand against the deadly fast bowling from Gujarat Titans. The fast bowling trio of Prasidh Krishna, Kagiso Rabada and Mohammed Siraj had dismissed all four top batsmen of Lucknow within the first 50 balls of the innings. Markram scored 30 runs, while Mitchell Marsh scored only 11 runs. Captain Rishabh Pant definitely got the start, but walked out after scoring 18 runs in 11 balls.

Paan was a major reason for Lucknow’s failure by not facing fast bowling in the beginning. The middle order also failed, where Ayush Badoni, Nicholas Pooran and Abdul Samad also could not stand in front of difficult conditions.

Famous Krishna created havoc

Especially the Lucknow batsmen were seen struggling against the famous Krishna of Gujarat Titans. He took four wickets giving only 28 runs in 4 overs. Krishna, who became the new purple cap holder, took the wickets of Aiden Markram, Ayush Badoni, Nicholas Pooran and Mukul Chaudhary.

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