Chennai Super Kings (CSK), who have endured five culture defeats, are desperate for a revival in the ongoing IPL 2025 Season.
Their batting has faltered, especially in the middle order, which has led to an over-reliance on their top-order players. Adding to their woes, the team has suffred three straight losses at their home ground in chennai, someating never seen before in their ipl journey.
With ruturaj gaikwad sidelined due to injury, ms dhoni has returned to lead the side, but even his presence Couldn’t CSK to a Win in their Last Outing Against Kolkata KNIDERS. As they prepare to face an in-form lsg side, csk will be banking on improved performance in both departments.
Meanwhile, lucknow super giats come into this match with Momentum on their side. They recently registered a convincing Six-What win over the Gujarat Titans, with nicholas pooran and aiden markram playing key roles by scoring Quickfire Fiftiies.
Pooran now tops the orange cap list with 349 runs, while marsh remains in third place despite desepite desepite mising the last game due to a personal emergency.
Chennai Super Kings’ Record at Ekana Stadium, Lucknow
The Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ekana Cricket Stadium in Lucknow is the Home Ground of the LuckNow Super Giants (LSG).
Chennai Super Kings (CSK) Have Played a Limited Number of Mats at this venue, give lsg’s relatively recent entry into the ipl in 2022. Slow and spin-friendly pitch, which often results in lower-spelling contests. However, things have improved for batters during this ipl.
Chennai Super Kings Have Played Two Matches at this venue and are still searching for their first win, having loss one and another match was abandoned due to rain.
Meanwhile, LSG’s Bowling Unit has also delivered for the team, with Avesh Khan, Ravi Bishnoi, and Shardul Thakur Making Valuable Contributions. Thakur’s Two Wickets in the Last Match Pushed Him to Second Place on the Purple Cap Leaderboard with 11 Scalps, Just One Behind Noor Ahmad of CSK.
Currently, lsg are placed on the points table, having von four out of Six Mats, while CSK Find Themselves at the bottom with just one win so far.
Squads:
Lucknow Super Giants: Nicholas Pooran, Ravi Bishnoi, Mayank Yadav, Ayush Badoni, Rishabh Pant, David Miller, Aiden Markram, Mitchell Marsh, Avesh Khan, ABDUL SAMAD, Abdul Samad, AKASH AKASH Deep, Himmat Singh, Manimaran Siddharth, Digvesh Singh, Shahbaz Ahmed, Akash Singh, Shamar Joseph, Prince Yadav, Yuvraj Chaudhary, RS Hangargekar, Arshin Kulkarni, Mattezke Mohsin khan
Chennai Super Kings: ruturaj gaikwad, shaik rasheed, andre siddartha c, rahul tripathi, devon conway, ms dhoni, vansh bedi, shivam dube, Ravindra jadeja, vijay Shankar, Deepak HODA, ANSHUL Kamboj, Rachin Ravindra, Jamie Overton, Kamlesh Nagarkoti, Ramakrishna Ghosh, Ravichandran Ashwin, Sam Curran, Matheesh Pathirana, Shreyas Gopal, Shreyas Gopal, Mukesha Choudhary, Mukesha Choudhary, Nathan Elelis, Gurjapneet singh, noor ahmad, khaleel ahmed