In the 5th match of IPL 2026, Lucknow Super Giants and Delhi Capitals will face each other. Under the captaincy of Rishabh Pant, Lucknow will begin their campaign against Axar Patel’s team. This match will be played on April 1st at Ekana Cricket Stadium, where both teams will aim to start the season with a win.
Talking about the last season, both teams’ performances were not as expected. Delhi Capitals were eliminated despite coming very close to the playoffs and finished fifth in the points table. Meanwhile, Lucknow Super Giants’ performance was even weaker, where the team could only win 6 out of 14 matches and finished seventh. In such a situation, this time Lucknow, under Pant’s captaincy, will enter their first match with the intention of securing a win.
When Lucknow Super Giants take the field against Delhi Capitals, a big record of the team’s former captain KL Rahul could be broken. In fact, the team’s explosive batsman Nicholas Pooran has come very close to this record.
Currently, the record for most runs for Lucknow is held by KL Rahul, who has scored 1410 runs in 38 matches, with an average of 41.47 and a strike rate of over 130. Meanwhile, Nicholas Pooran has scored 1381 runs in 43 matches.
Now Pooran needs only 30 runs to break this record. If he scores that much, he will surpass Rahul to become the highest run-scorer for Lucknow Super Giants.
Rishabh Pant will be seen as the captain in the Lucknow Super Giants team. Along with him, players like Ayush Badoni, Matthew Breekze, Aiden Markram, Nicholas Pooran, Arshin Kulkarni, and Mitchell Marsh are included in the team.
Additionally, in the all-rounder and bowling department, Shahbaz Ahmed, Akash Maharaj Singh, Avesh Khan, Mohammed Shami, Prince Yadav, Digvesh Singh Rathi, Arjun Tendulkar, and Mayank Yadav are part of the team.
The team also includes Wanindu Hasaranga, Anrich Nortje, Josh Inglis, Abdul Samad, Himmat Singh, Naman Tiwari, Akshat Raghuvanshi, Mohsin Khan, Manimaran Siddharth, and Mukul Chaudhary.
