Lucknow Super Giants vs Punjab Kings Lucknow Pitch Report : There is a big match to be held in IPL this Saturday. The teams of Punjab Kings and Lucknow Supergiants will face each other. Both the teams will compete with each other for the first time this year. However, currently both are in bad shape in the points table. Punjab team has won one match, but Lucknow’s account is yet to be opened. The special thing is that for the first time this year a match is to be played in Lucknow. Till now, the home team has been dominating in this year’s IPL, something similar will be seen in the match in Lucknow too or the tables may turn. Let us understand how the Lucknow pitch can be.
IPL 2024 match will be played for the first time in Lucknow’s Ekana Stadium.
The first match of this year’s IPL is to be held at Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ekana Cricket Stadium in Lucknow. Local team Lucknow Supergiants and rival Punjab Kings team have reached here. In their very first match, Punjab Kings had defeated Delhi Capitals at their home i.e. Mohali and secured two points. Talking about LSG, it had to play its first match against Rajasthan Royals in Jaipur. He was defeated there. Now Punjab team will play its second match and LSG will play its second match.
Batsmen and spinners can dominate in Ekana
If we talk about the pitch of Ekana Stadium, according to the statistics so far, it has been helpful for the batsmen. Bowlers also yearn to take wickets here. However, the good thing is that the spinners definitely show some of their magic here. However, the first match of this year’s IPL is to be held here, so it is difficult to say right now how the new pitch is made and for whom it will be more beneficial. But it is almost certain that there may not be a low scoring match here. If we look at the data so far, the team batting first has won 60 percent of the matches and the team batting later has won 40 percent of the matches.
Such are the head to head figures between LSG and PBKS
Talking about Lucknow Supergiants and Punjab Kings, 3 matches have been played between the two teams so far. Out of these, Lucknow team has won two matches and Punjab team has won one match. When both the teams came face to face for the first time in the year 2022, the match was played in Maharashtra. In that match, LSG defeated Punjab by 20 runs. After this, both the teams clashed twice in the year 2023. In this, one match was won by Punjab and one by LSG. Now there will be a clash between these teams for the fourth time, which is expected to be quite interesting.
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