Rishabh Pant’s Lucknow Super Giants will take on Hardik Pandya’s Mumbai Indians in the Indian Premier League 2025 at Ekana Cricket Stadium, Lucknow, on Friday. While the hosts, LSG, are at the seventh position in the table, MI is just one place above at sixth position.
Mumbai Indians would be confident in the match against LSG as they are coming off their win, defeating Kolkata Knight Riders by eight wickets in the previous match. MI’s young bowler Ashwini Kumar bowled brilliantly, taking four wickets, which helped bundle out KKR for just 116 runs. While batting MI’s batter Ryan Rickleton scored a half-century and chased down the total quite comfortably. Now, it’s highly unlikely that the five-time champions would make any change in the winning combination.
On the other hand, Lucknow Super Giants have one win and two losses in three matches. In the previous match, they suffered a defeat against Punjab Kings, which has caused them to decline in their Net Run Rate (NRR). As LSG is playing at home, they will look forward to putting up a better performance.
Pitch report:
The pitch at Ekana Cricket Stadium is expected to offer a fair contest between bat and ball, providing assistance to both pacers and spinners. Given the conditions, both teams are likely to prefer chasing.
Mumbai Indians:
Rohit Sharma, Ryan Rickelton(w), Will Jacks/Mujeeb Ur Rahman, Suryakumar Yadav, Tilak Varma, Hardik Pandya(c), Naman Dhir, Mitchell Santner, Deepak Chahar, Trent Boult, Ashwani Kumar,
Impact player: Vignesh Puthur/Satyanarayana Raju
Lucknow Super Giants:
Mitchell Marsh, Aiden Markram, Nicholas Pooran, Rishabh Pant (WK/C), Ayush Badoni, David Miller, Abdul Samad, Digvesh Singh Rathi, Shardul Thakur, Avesh Khan, Ravi Bishnoi
Impact Player: Prince Yadav/Akash Deep
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