DC vs LSG 2025: Match number 4 of IPL 2025 will be played on Monday between Delhi Capitals and Lucknow Super Giants at Visakhapatnam (aca-vdca cricket stadium). Lucknow captain Rishabh Pant is facing his old team Delhi Capitals, for which he has captained. Akshar Patel and Pant used to play together till last year, but on Monday both will face each other as captains. Let us tell you how the pitch report of Visakhapatnam Stadium is going to be and what could be the possible playing 11 for this match. What is the prediction regarding the match, which team has the upper hand?

Visakhapatnam Weather

The weather in Visakhapatnam will be pleasant during the Delhi Capitals vs Lucknow Super Giants match. The maximum temperature in the city will be 33 degrees Celsius on Monday, March 24. The temperature will drop to 28 degrees Celsius during the match. The weather will be clear on Monday. There is no chance of rain, the humidity will be 72 percent and the wind will blow at a speed of 13 kilometers per hour. The Delhi Capitals team, captained by Akshar Patel, can have Jake Fraser-McGurk, Faf du Plessis, Tristan Stubbs and Mitchell Starc as the 4 foreign players. Fraser and Faf can open the innings.

Delhi Capitals Probable Playing 11

Jake Fraser-McGurk, Faf du Plessis, Abhishek Porel, KL Rahul, Axar Patel (Captain), Tristan Stubbs, Ashutosh Sharma, Mitchell Starc, Kuldeep Yadav, Mukesh Kumar, T Natarajan.

Impact Player: Karun Nair/Mohit Sharma.

Rishabh Pant is the captain of Lucknow Super Giants this time, he is facing his previous team (DC). Mitchell Marsh and Arshin Kulkarni can play as openers. This team has an explosive batsman in the form of Nicholas Pooran, who was retained by the team.
Apart from Marsh and Pooran, Pant can include David Miller and Shamar Joseph as foreign players in the playing 11.

Lucknow Super Giants Probable Playing 11

Arshin Kulkarni, Mitchell Marsh, Rishabh Pant (captain/wicketkeeper), Nicholas Pooran, Ayush Badoni, David Miller, Abdul Samad, Shardul Thakur, Rajvardhan Hangargekar, Ravi Bishnoi, Shamar Joseph.

Impact Player: Akash Singh/Shahbaz Ahmed/Manimaran Siddharth.

How will be the pitch report

The pitch of ACA-VDCA International Stadium (ACA International Cricket Stadium – Visakhapatnam) is made of black soil. Spinners get more help here, which makes it very difficult for the batsmen. In the beginning, fast bowlers will get help but as the match progresses, the challenge for them will also increase. The toss will be important here, the winning captain will want to bowl first. Dew will prove to be a big factor here and chasing the target can be easy.

So far 15 matches have been played in this stadium in IPL. Out of these, the team bowling first has won 7 times while the team batting first has won 8 times. The highest score of this stadium is 272 runs, which was made by KKR. The average score here in the first innings is 175.

Who has the upper hand between Delhi and Lucknow

Delhi Capitals looks stronger than Lucknow. The team has good openers, the middle order also looks good. Captain Akshar Patel can prove to be a good finisher. Delhi seems to have an edge in bowling as well. Delhi Capitals have a higher chance of winning the match.

Players included in Delhi and Lucknow team

Lucknow Super Giants Team: Arshin Kulkarni, Mitchell Marsh, Rishabh Pant (wicketkeeper/captain), Nicholas Pooran, Ayush Badoni, David Miller, Abdul Samad, Shardul Thakur, RS Hangargekar, Ravi Bishnoi, Shamar Joseph,Akash Deep, Shahbaz Ahmed, Manimaran Siddharth, Akash Maharaj Singh, Aiden Markram, Avesh Khan, Himmat Singh, Matthew Breetzke, Aryan Juyal, Yuvraj Chaudhary, Mayank Yadav, Prince Yadav, Digvesh Rathi.

Delhi Capitals team

Jake Fraser-McGurk, Faf du Plessis, Abhishek Porel, KL Rahul (wicketkeeper), Axar Patel (captain), Tristan Stubbs, Ashutosh Sharma, Mitchell Starc, Kuldeep Yadav, Mukesh Kumar, T Natarajan, Karun Nair, Mohit Sharma, Dushmantha Chameera, Ajay Jadav Mandal, Darshan Nalkande, Sameer Rizvi, Donovan Ferreira, Tripurana Vijay, Manwant Kumar L, Vipraj Nigam, Madhav Tiwari.