IPL 2025: Delhi Capitals, Lucknow Super Giants Eye Winning Start



IPL 2025: Delhi Capitals, Lucknow Super Giants Eye Winning Start
Delhi Capitals will face Lucknow Super Giants in the fourth IPL 2025 encounter at Visakhapatnam's Rajasekhara Reddy Stadium. The tournament with 74 games played over 13 cities will be concluded by the final match on May 25 in Kolkata.
The Delhi Capitals, going through a significant overhaul following the mega auction, will be captained by Axar Patel. Their new-look team features KL Rahul, Faf du Plessis, and Mitchell Starc, bringing quality and experience to the side. The team sets its sights on a good beginning, with an aspiration to leave their mark on the tournament.
On the other hand, Lucknow Super Giants, led by Rishabh Pant, will aim to do better than their seventh-place finish in the previous season, when they had eight wins and eight defeats. With a strong batting unit, they are likely to put up a good fight against Delhi in a thrilling match. 
Squads:
Delhi Capitals: Abishek Porel (wk), KL Rahul, J Fraser-McGurk, T Stubbs, F du Plessis, AR Sharma, Axar Patel (C), KL Yadav, Mitchell Starc, T Natarajan, MM Sharma.
Lucknow Super Giants: Rishabh Pant (C), DA Miller, Nicholas Pooran, Abdul Samad, A Badoni, AK Markram, MR Marsh, Shahbaz Ahmed, Ravi Bishnoi, Akash Deep, Avesh Khan.
Both sides being star-studded, this is going to be an exciting game as IPL fever hits the country.