IPL 2025: In IPL 2025 today, the 16th match will be played between Lucknow Supergiants and Mumbai Indians. Mi captain Hardik Pandya has decided to bowl first after winning the toss. This match will be played at Lucknow’s Home Ground Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee from 7:30 pm. For the first time this season, Lucknow Supergiants and Mumbai Indians will be face to face. At present, both teams have played three matches, while one has won.
Head to head match
6 matches have been played between Mumbai and Lucknow in IPL. Of these, Mumbai in 1 and Lucknow in 5 have won. In Lucknow, both teams came face to face twice, in which Lucknow won both matches. Mumbai has won the only win in the Eliminator in 2023 IPL.
Top player of both teams
Suryakumar Yadav and Ashwani Kumar for Mumbai Indians and Nicholas Puran and Shardul Thakur for Lucknow Supergiants have done well. Nicholas Puran has scored 2 fifty in this season and 44 runs in one match. Shardul Thakur has taken 6 wickets in 3 matches. At the same time, Suryakumar Yadav has scored 104 runs in 3 matches for Mumbai. Ashwani Kumar performed brilliantly and took 4 wickets for 24 runs in 3 overs against Kolkata.
How is the pitch?
The pitch of Lucknow’s Ekana Stadium can prove to be helpful for bowlers, especially spinners help more here. Low-scoring matches have been seen on this ground so far. A total of 15 matches have been played in this stadium so far in the IPL, out of which 7 times the team batting and 7 times the first bowling team won, while 1 match was canceled. The highest team score of this ground is 235/6, which was made by Kolkata Knight Riders against Lucknow Super Giants last year.
Playing of both teams 11
Lucknow Super Giants Team
Aden Markram, Mitchell Marsh, Nicholas Puran, Rishabh Pant (wicketkeeper/captain), Ayush Badoni, David Miller, Abdul Samad, Shardul Thakur, Digvesh Singh Rathi, Akash Deep, Avesh Khan.
Mumbai Indians Team
Will Jack, Ryan Ricelton (W), Suryakumar Yadav, Hardik Pandya (C), Naman Dhir, Raj Bawa, Michel Santner, Trent Bolt, Ashwini Kumar, Deepak Chahar, Vignesh Puthur.