Lucknow Super Giants vs Chennai Super Kings Preview & Prediction | IPL 2025 | League Stage
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A red-hot Lucknow Super Giants are coming off the back of three straight wins, whilst Chennai Super Kings have lost their last five.
Date & time: Monday April 14th 2025: USA PT – 7:00am / USA ET – 10:00am / UK – 3:00pm
Venue: Ekana International Cricket Stadium, Lucknow, India
Weather: Temperatures over 30c at the start of play with clear skies and light winds.
How to watch: USA – Willow TV / UK – Sky Sports & Sky Go / Australia – Foxtel
Lucknow Super Giants Preview: Proving doubters wrong
Lucknow Super Giants continue to show why they may well be contenders after all this year, despite their bowling attack having been decimated by injury. The foundations have been built through a relentless diet of run-scoring with two of the three highest-scorers in this season’s IPL so far representing Lucknow, Nicholas Pooran and Mitchell Marsh.
Chennai Super Kings Preview: Suffering in Gaikwad’s absence
Chennai Super Kings slipped to a fifth consecutive defeat most recently, losing to eight wickets to Kolkata Knight Riders. Captain and top order batter Ruturaj Gaikwad is injured and boy did Chennai miss him. They could only manage 103/9 from their 20 overs against the reigning champions and it took Kolkata just 10.1 overs to reach their victory target and extend Chennai’s misery.
Lucknow Super Giants Betting Analysis
Australian Mitchell Marsh was a late scratch from the side that beat Gujarat Titans due to personal reasons, specifically to take care of his unwell daughter. Across five innings so far this season, Marsh has managed to rack up a whopping 265 runs including four half-centuries. Should Marsh be available to make his return in this match, then he is well worth backing to finish as Lucknow’s top batter here.
Chennai Super Kings Betting Analysis
Chennai Super Kings will hope that spin can prove key to breaking their recent losing streak, especially against a team who are likely to come at them hard with the bat. This is where the vastly experienced Ravindra Jadeja could come up clutch. He won’t be phased by any Lucknow batter targeting him and offers a point of difference with his left-arm spin. Consider backing Jadeja to accrue over 1.5 match wickets.
Lucknow Super Giants vs Chennai Super Kings Expert Prediction
If the Lucknow Super Giants top order prove to be as ruthless as what we’ve seen from them throughout most of the season so far, then this could be a long few hours for an out-of-form Chennai Super Kings, who simply cannot put together a complete performance presently. Either the batting or the bowling is letting them down in any given match and the bowling unit in particular, may well in for some punishment here. Back the power of Lucknow to pull through and extend their winning run.
Lucknow Super Giants vs Chennai Super Kings Top Tip: Lucknow Super Giants to win
