Match details

Delhi Capitals (6th place) vs Lucknow Super Giants (7th place)
Delhi, 7.30pm IST (2pm GMT)

Big picture: LSG, DC or neither?

LSG have a better chance than DC of making the playoffs, but the huge defeats in their previous two games have severely damaged their net run rate and their prospects. They need a win in Delhi, and another in Mumbai to get to 16 points, and then hope Chennai Super Kings and Sunrisers Hyderabad don't make it to 16 as well because both those teams have far superior net run rates. Fourteen points will not be enough for LSG.

The challenge for LSG in Delhi is two fold. They are the second slowest batting side this season, scoring at 8.35 runs per over, so their batters will have to level up at the venue with the highest run rate (11.06) this season. LSG's bowlers have also taken the fewest wickets in IPL 2024 - 57 in 12 innings, which is less than six per game on average - and they might have to do better than that to rein in Jake Fraser-Mcgurk and co.

Form guide

Previous meeting

Team news and Impact Player strategy

Delhi Capitals

Rishabh Pant is available for selection after he was suspended for DC's previous game against RCB for a third slow over-rate offence. He is likely to replace Kumar Kushagra in the XI. DC had started with three foreign players against RCB, with David Warner coming in as Impact Player for the chase. He is likely to start if they bat first against LSG.

Probable XII: 1 David Warner, 2 Jake Fraser-McGurk, 3 Abishek Porel, 4 Rishabh Pant (capt & wk), 5 Shai Hope, 6 Tristan Stubbs, 7 Axar Patel, 8 Rasikh Salam, 9 Kuldeep Yadav, 10 Mukesh Kumar, 11 Ishant Sharma, 12 Khaleel Ahmed

Lucknow Super Giants

LSG didn't use an Impact Player in their previous game against SRH because they managed to stop the collapse when batting first, before getting blown away in 9.4 overs in the chase. While chasing in the two matches before that, they brought in Arshin Kulkarni to open and subbed out Mayank Yadav and Yash Thakur respectively. Mohsin Khan is fit again after hitting his head on the turf against KKR and missing the next game against SRH and he could come in for Yudhvir Singh

Probable XII: 1 KL Rahul (capt & wk), 2 Arshin Kulkarni, 3 Marcus Stoinis, 4 Deepak Hooda, 5 Nicholas Pooran, 6 Ayush Badoni, 7 Ashton Turner, 8 Krunal Pandya, 9 Mohsin Khan, 10 Ravi Bishnoi, 11 Naveen-ul-Haq, 12 Yash Thakur

In the spotlight: Fraser-McGurk and Rahul

Stats that matter

Pitch and conditions

In the four matches at the Arun Jaitley Stadium so far, the team batting first has won after scoring 266 for 7, 224 for 4, 257 for 4 and 221 for 8, while the chasing team has responded with 199, 220 for 8, 247 for 9 and 201 for 8. It's a high-scoring venue with short straight boundaries and shorter square boundaries. The forecast is for a warm evening with temperatures in the mid 30C range.

Quotes

"We would have liked to have been just a bit more consistent. But in saying that, we just need to deal with the fact of where we are now... If we, as a team, want to win the IPL, [we] probably need to win five in a row, which RCB have just done. So that's proof that for us; it's absolutely possible. But that's just the big picture. We need to get over the line tomorrow before we can have any other aspirations."
LSG assistant coach Lance Klusener