🏏IPL 2025- Lucknow Super Giants vs Punjab Kings, Match-13 7:30 PM 🏏 - Page 7

Here you go.... Again I got toss points

Maxi & Iyer

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Lockie comes in for Omarzai in PB

So it's Langer v Ponting

Maxi v Langer

https://x.com/KohliSensation/status/1906959190398218457

Hope aaj Maxi 201 mein se at least 1 ya 2 runs banaye

Na ki 0

Ya phir uski batting hi na aaye

Lucknow Super Giants (Playing XI): Mitchell Marsh, Aiden Markram, Nicholas Pooran, Rishabh Pant(w/c), Ayush Badoni, David Miller, Abdul Samad, Digvesh Singh Rathi, Shardul Thakur, Avesh Khan, Ravi Bishnoi

Punjab Kings (Playing XI): Priyansh Arya, Prabhsimran Singh(w), Shreyas Iyer(c), Shashank Singh, Marcus Stoinis, Glenn Maxwell, Suryansh Shedge, Marco Jansen, Lockie Ferguson, Yuzvendra Chahal, Arshdeep Singh

Originally posted by: SoniRita

Shardul Thakur pulled no punches while addressing the growing imbalance between bat and ball in the IPL. "All that the bowlers are asking is to prepare the pitch in such a manner that the game hangs in balance, and it should not be just one-sided where batters are coming and smashing us," the all-rounder said ahead of Lucknow Super Giants' first home game this season. "Because all we want is a fair chance and fair opportunity in the game."

In that context, he would be pleased to play seven home matches this season at a venue that, across the last two IPL editions, has recorded the lowest first-innings average (165), the lowest run rate (8.17) and the second-lowest runs per wicket (24.53) among all 14 venues.

To be fair, Lucknow as a city leaves very little room for complaint, except maybe if you are a batter. What the occasionally difficult and largely inconsistent playing surfaces here have done is prevent the LSG batters from truly imposing themselves on the opposition, despite possessing the skills to do that. Only seven wins in 13 completed home matches points to a lot of room for improvement, something that LSG would be keen to do, especially with five of their next seven matches scheduled in Lucknow.

What could make things trickier for LSG besides reading the pitch is the opposition they will face first up. Lately, Punjab Kings have thrived at most places that's not Mohali or Mullanpur, and they arrive in Lucknow on the back of a famous win in Ahmedabad. It was a night that saw Shreyas Iyer play a bonafide captain's knock, where he punished spin and pace while dismissing any thoughts of a maiden IPL hundred that might have come at the team's cost.

But Iyer's innings, Shashank Singh's whirlwind finish and Vijaykumar Vyshak's match-turning spell of yorkers all feel so distant, with PBKS having a week-long gap since. Fast bowling coach James Hopes felt it gave them time to prepare for a "spin heavy" challenge in Lucknow, but how the long break so early in the season will manifest in the middle is anybody's guess.

He’s not even in the Punjab Kings list. Tech team please update the players list.

If he happens to shine tonight, what then ?

So, PBKS have strengthened their bowling with the inclusion of Ferguson. That means Jansen could partner Arshdeep with the new ball, which is exciting from a PBKS POV. Vyshak could be Punjab's Impact Player, like he was in their opening fixture. LSG, after a near-perfect game against SRH, have refrained from any changes, which is not a huge surprise. Prince Yadav is the most likely to come in as their Impact Player, but if the pitch is offering spin, Siddharth and Shahbaz are also options.

Thank you Shreyas Iyer for not dropping Maxi

But aaj isne kuch nahi kiya toh please drop him