Lucknow Super Giants set a target of 167 runs to win Chennai Super Kings: 167 runs to chase.

IPL 2025: The 30th match of the ongoing season of IPL is being played between Lucknow Super Giants and Chennai Super Kings on Monday, 14 April. Chennai has decided to bowl by winning the toss in this match being played at the Ekana Cricket Stadium.

So at the same time, while batting first, Lucknow Super Giants have set a target of 167 runs, to win in front of Chennai Super Kings. For the team, captain Rishabh Pant scored an excellent captaincy innings of 63 runs in 49 balls with the help of four fours and four sixes.

LSG vs. CSK, first innings condition

Tell you in detail about the first innings of the match, Chennai won the toss and invited Lucknow to bat first. After this, while batting first, Lucknow Super Giants have scored a total of 166 runs at the loss of 7 wickets in the prescribed 20 overs.

Earlier, LSG’s start in the match was nothing special. The team got the first blow on the last ball of the first over, when the inform Aiden Markram was caught out against Khalil Ahmed by scoring 6 runs.

Rahul Tripathi ran a wonderful catch while running back. But in the middle order for the team, Mitchell Marsh played 30, Rishabh Pant 63, Ayush Badoni 22 and Abdul Samad played an innings of 20 runs, the team brought the team to a respectable score.

On the other hand, all the bowlers bowled well when we talk about the bowling of Chennai Super Kings. Ravindra Jadeja and Mathisha Pathirana got 2-2 wickets. Apart from this, Khalil Ahmed and Anshul Kamboj got 1-1 wickets. It will be worth seeing whether Chennai is able to achieve the target of 167 runs from Lucknow or not?

Playing XI of both teams for the match:

Lucknow Super Giants – Aden Markram, Mitchell Marsh, Nicholas Puran, Ayush Badoni, Rishabh Pant (Captain), David Miller, Abdul Samad, Shardul Thakur, Avesh Khan, Akash Deep, Divesh Singh Rathi

Chennai Super Kings – Sheikh Rashid, Rachin Ravindra, Rahul Tripathi, Vijay Shankar, Ravindra Jadeja, Jamie Overton, MS Dhoni (captain/wicketkeeper), Anshul Kamboj, Noor Ahmed, Khalil Ahmed, Mathisha Pathirana