Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) will take on the Mumbai Indians (MI) in the 16th match of IPL 2025 at the Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ekana Cricket Stadium, Lucknow, on April 4.
LSG will turn up in their first home game of IPL 2025 in Lucknow and will try to continue the momentum that the team has picked up after defeating Sunrisers Hyderabad
As far as MI is concerned, the Hardik Pandya-led side also registered their first win in a solid manner over KKR and would hope to replicate the same by delivering another match-winning performance against the LSG.
LSG vs MI Weather And Pitch Report Of Ekana Stadium, Lucknow- IPL 2025, Match 16:
LSG vs MI, Weather report of Lucknow:
Rain is not expected to play a part in the LSG vs MI game. The temperature is predicted to be around 36 degrees Celsius during the match.
LSG vs MI, Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ekana Cricket Stadium, Pitch Report
There is little to choose between teams batting first and chasing as sides that opt to bat first have won seven and the chasing team has won six out of the 14 IPL games played at this ground.
Having said that, the team that wins the toss will elect to bowl first, looking at the nature of the wicket, which was relayed before the 2023 ODI World Cup, making it a batting-friendly surface with the ball coming on the bat nicely.
The batters can trust the bounce and play through the line and the pitch has something in it for the fast bowler as well as the spinners while bowling in the first six overs.
The situation was different went the ground hosted the first IPL match in 2023, with talks of the surface being dangerous for batting due to the uneven bounce that it possessed.
Players like Trent Boult, Deepak Chahar, Vignesh Puthur, and Ravi Bishnoi will try to make full use of the dimensions of the ground, which, unlike other venues in India, is decent in size, and batters will have to work hard to score boundaries
The Lucknow vs Mumbai game will be the first encounter of IPL 2025 at the Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ekana Cricket Stadium. If we take into account the results of previous matches at this venue, then a score between 180-190 is considered a par score in Lucknow
The LSG vs MI match will feature power-hitting batters like Rishabh Pant, Nicholas Pooran, David Miller, Suryakumar Yadav, and Hardik Pandya, along with rookies like Prince Yadav and Ashwani Kumar in the fast bowling department.
Conclusion
LSG would like to win their first home game of the season by defeating MI in the Lucknow vs Mumbai clash and will hope for the captain Rishabh Pant to lead from the front.
Meanwhile, the five-time champion MI will look to carry the winning momentum in the LSG vs MI game and make a strong case for winning their sixth IPL title.
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