Delhi Capitals vs Lucknow Super Giants, IPL 2025: Likely Playing XIs And Impact Substitutes Of Both Teams

Delhi Capitals and Lucknow Super Giants will enter a new leadership phase when they compete in their first IPL 2025 match on Monday in Visakhapatnam. Delhi Capitals will be directed by the versatile Axar Patel while LSG will play under Rishabh Pant, which capitalized on the Delhi-based franchise in 2024. During the mega-enchora, LSG dropped their regular skipper KL Rahul and corrected in the Guichet Guardian pants at a record price of Rs 27 crore. On the other hand, Rahul joined Delhi for Rs 14 crores.

Before the opening of the campaign, the Skipper of DC Axar informed that Rahul is unlikely to play for the first match when he awaits the birth of his first child with his wife and the actress of Bollywood, Athiya Shetty.

LSG has suffered a hard blow while their Khan Mohin stimulator was excluded due to an injury. The versatile Shardul Thakur has been appointed replacement. Apart from that, LSG will also miss the services of their Indian Quicks – Mayank Yadav, Avesh Khan and Akash Deep, who are rehabilitation for injuries.

LSG hopes that their rich bank of Indian players will mix well with players abroad to ensure a series of victories. Although Mitchell Marsh is only available as a specialized paste, LSG hopes the rich yields of the South African pair of David Miller and Aiden Markram.

In Nicholas Pooran, the LSG has a perfect aggressive paste that can build sleeves as well as anchor prosecution, while Ayush Badoni, Abdul Samad and Shahbaz Ahmed could be the other Indian strikers.

DC, on the other hand, was embarrassed by the choices when it was a question of choosing their captain because they also faf from Plessis apart from Kl Rahul, but the franchise opted for Axar Patel, whose career graph has increased.

Overall, on paper, the capitals appear as a formidable unit for the rich mixture of players abroad and Indians, while LSG has only six players abroad in their list with which to work.

In addition to the vast experience of Du Plessis in the programming of strikers, the Capitals of Delhi also have the Australian Speedster Mitchell Starc which arrives in this fresh IPL a break which saw him miss the Champions Trophy.

XI vs LSG planned of DC: Jake Fraser-McGurk, Faf du Plessis, Abishek Porel (WK), Karun Nair, Axar Patel (C), Tristan Stubbs, Ashutosh Sharma, Mitchell Starc, Kuldeep Yadav, Mukesh Kumar, T Natarajan

Impact player: Mohit Sharma