🏏IPL 2024: Match 64 - DC vs LSG at Delhi @ 7:30PM IST🏏 - Page 2

Today’s Match Prediction: Team batting first to win the match

Scenario 1

Delhi Capitals win the toss and bowl

Power Play score – 70-80

First Innings Score - 215-225

Lucknow Super Giants win the match

Scenario 2

Lucknow Super Giants win the toss and bowl

Power Play score - 80-90

First Innings Score - 225-235

Delhi Capitals win the match

Teams Watch

Delhi Capitals

Injuries & Availability: Pant returns after sitting out against RCB for a slow over-rate related suspension.

Tactics & Matchups: Kuldeep Yadav has had the wood over Nicholas Pooran in T20 cricket. The wristspinner handed Pooran a golden duck in their previous meeting in IPL 2024, and has dismissed him a total of five times in all T20s. The otherwise big-hitting Pooran's strike-rate also drops to just about 91 against Kuldeep in this format, making it an exciting middle-overs match-up to watch out for.

Probable XI: David Warner, Jake Fraser-McGurk, Abishek Porel, Rishabh Pant (C, wk), Shai Hope, Tristan Stubbs, Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Mukesh Kumar, Ishant Sharma, Khaleel Ahmed [Impact sub: Rasikh Salam]

Lucknow Super Giants

Injuries & Availability: Mohsin Khan sat out the last game due to an injury and could return to the XI in Delhi.

Tactics & Matchups: LSG would be well aware of Pant's declining strike-rate (~115) against spinners in IPL 2024, and his troubles against legspin in particular. The DC captain was dismissed by Ravi Bishnoi in the reverse fixture, making it an exciting re-match. Pant strikes at only 112.5 against him, and has lost his wicket to Bishnoi twice. He's also been dismissed thrice by Krunal Pandya in IPL, though his strike-rate against the left-arm spinner is a staggering 179.5.

Probable XI: Quinton de Kock, KL Rahul (C, wk), Marcus Stoinis, Nicholas Pooran, Ayush Badoni, Deepak Hooda, Krunal Pandya, Mohsin Khan/Arshin Kulkarni, Yash Thakur, Ravi Bishnoi, Naveen-ul-Haq [Impact sub: Arshin Kulkarni/K Gowtham]

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Thanks for the tag and thread. I hope DC wins today

Thank you Raji for the thread and for tagging me.

Best wishes to both the teams.

It's a straight shoot-out between the Delhi Capitals and the Lucknow Super Giants. Only one team will survive in the race to playoffs after today's match.

Axar will be key against Rahul and Stoinis. Rahul has only managed 30 off 39 balls against the all-rounder and has been dismissed twice. Meanwhile, Stoinis has registered 22 off 38 deliveries and has lost his wicket twice.

Rishabh Pant returns

IDC captain Pant will be back in action tonight, as he missed out his side's previous game vs RCB due to a slow over-rate suspension.

DC jeet jana aj🙏🏻

Thanks for the tag

Easy win for DC today

Captains in the spotlight

The two captains, Rishabh Pant and KL Rahul, are returning to the field after an eventful week of tumultuous fortunes. While Pant was suspended due to a third slow over-rate offense of his team during a crucial match against RCB which ended in defeat, Rahul was left shell-shocked by a Sunrisers mauling in Hyderabad. An unpleasant on-field discussion with LSG owner Sanjiv Goenka was later all over social media, suggesting unrest within the Lucknow franchise. With their teams on the verge of being knocked out, both captains have a lot to prove tonight in Delhi.

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