In what could be an important seventh match of the season for both Lucknow Super Giants and Chennai Super Kings, they face off in the 34th game of the 2024 Indian Premier League. Get our latest expert Lucknow Super Giants v Chennai Super Kings match betting tips, predictions and picks below. You can start betting on the IPL 2024 by opening your account with 1xbet here.
LSG vs Chennai Match Information
- Venue: Ekana Stadium, Lucknow
- Date: Friday, April 19
- Time: 7.30 pm local (2 pm GMT, 10 am EDT)
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What Have The Two Teams Done So Far?
We are a game away from the halfway stage of the group stage of the tournament and things have gotten very close. One look at the IPL 2024 points table tells us that a win for Lucknow in this game could make things very interesting while if Chennai win this, they will jump to the second spot behind Rajasthan Royals.
Quick LSG v CSK Preview
Lucknow Super Giants are on a two-match losing streak, having lost to Delhi Capitals and Kolkata Knight Riders. What would cause them a bit of concern is that both those defeats came batting first which is against how things have gone for Lucknow in the past.
They have been known to defend totals well and for their opponents to win with 11 and 26 balls to spare respectively, has been down to a combination of underwhelming batting and the lack of penetration in their bowling.
Just a couple of weeks ago, Mayank Yadav had been the toast of the nation but his injury has become a big issue. So has been Devdutt Padikkal’s form, so much so that he was dropped from the XI.
And the trouble for LSG is they will now be up against Chennai Super Kings who enter this encounter on the back of a superb win over arch-rivals Mumbai Indians.
Chennai scored a mammoth 206/4 batting first on arguably a flat Wankhede pitch but more importantly bowled extremely well to restrict their opponents to 186 despite a Rohit Sharma century.
What could be interesting to watch is how they do on a pitch where run-scoring hasn’t been the easiest – 199 has been the highest score here this year while a team has also been restricted to 130 in one of the matches.
LSG will hope they can get their bowling in order against a rather murderous looking CSK batting, without which we could see a thumping.
LSG v CSK Head to Head Stats
- Overall LSG v CSK Head-to-head: There have been three previous meetings between these two sides and it’s 1-1 on head to head with one match rained off.
- The match that got abandoned was their only meeting at this ground in Lucknow and it had seen the Super Giants collapse to 125/7 before the rains had their final say.
Possible Playing XIs/XIIs
Lucknow Super Giants
de Kock, Rahul, Padikkal, Stoinis, Pooran, Hooda, Badoni, Bishnoi, Mohsin Khan, Joseph, Yash, Naveen-ul-Haq.
Chennai Super Kings
Gaikwad, Ravindra, Rahane, Mitchell, Dube, Jadeja, Rizvi, Dhoni, Rahman, Deshpande, Thakur, Pathirana.
LSG v CSK Predictions with Latest Odds*
- Prediction 1: Chennai to win: 8/11 (sign up with 1xbet)
- Prediction 2: All four opening batters to score 10+ runs: 5/6
LSG v CSK Toss Prediction
Lucknow to win the toss: 10/11
LSG v CSK Score Prediction
First Innings – Over 175.5 runs: 5/6
*odds correct at the time of writing.
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