Lucknow Super Giants will host Chennai Super Kings at the Ekana Cricket Stadium, Lucknow on Wednesday in the 45th match of the IPL 2023. LSG hasn’t been at their best while playing at home as their batters have failed to deliver while batting on a difficult pitch.
We look at the current form, head-to-head, players to look out for, and squads of both teams in our match preview.
Current form for CSK: L L W W W
Chennai Super Kings has lost their last two matches and they will be determined to turn the tables against LSG. Their bowling has been their Achilles Heel in the ongoing season as their fast bowlers have failed to deliver for the team.
Current form for LSG: L W L W L
Lucknow Super Giants will want to come up with a better batting performance against Chennai Super Kings. LSG bowlers had done a good job against RCB in the last game but their batters messed up the run-chase of 127 runs as they could not get going on a difficult pitch.
Head to Head: Matches: 2, Won by LSG: 1, Won by CSK: 1.
Both teams have won one match against each other. The last time these two teams met earlier, CSK won by 12 runs.
Players to look out for: Devon Conway, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Ambati Rayudu, Moeen Ali, Ben Stokes, MS Dhoni, Ravindra Jadeja, and Deepak Chahar will be the key players for CSK.
KL Rahul, Kyle Mayers, Nicholas Pooran, Deepak Hooda, Krunal Pandya, Mark Wood, and Ravi Bishnoi will be the crucial players for LSG.
CSK IPL 2023 Squad:
Wicketkeepers: MS Dhoni, Devon Conway (NZ).
Batters: Ruturaj Gaikwad, Ambati Rayudu, Subhranshu Senapati, Shaik Rasheed, Ajinkya Rahane.
All-rounders: Moeen Ali (ENG), Shivam Dube, Rajvardhan Hangargekar, Ravindra Jadeja, Dwaine Pretorius (SA), Mitchell Santner (NZ), Ben Stokes (ENG), Kyle Jamieson (NZ), Ajay Mandal, Bhagath Varma, Nishant Sindhu.
Bowlers: Deepak Chahar, Tushar Deshpande, Mukesh Choudhary, Matheesha Pathirana (SL), Simarjeet Singh, Prashant Solanki, Maheesh Theekshana (SL).
LSG IPL 2023 SQUAD
Wicketkeepers: Quinton de Kock (SA), Manan Vohra, Nicholas Pooran (WI),
Batters: KL Rahul, Ayush Badoni.
All-rounders: Krishnappa Gowtham, Deepak Hooda, Kyle Mayers (WI), Krunal Pandya, Karan Sharma, Marcus Stoinis (AUS), Romario Shepherd (WI), Daniel Sams (AUS), Prerak Mankad, Swapnil Singh, Yudhvir Charak,
Bowlers: Avesh Khan, Mohsin Khan, Ravi Bishnoi, Mark Wood (ENG), Mayank Yadav, Jaydev Unadkat, Yash Thakur, Amit Mishra, Naveen-ul-Haq (AFG).
