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After a blasting weekened of 3 blockbuster matches of IPL 2025, season 18; fourth match will also be an interesting one as one of the two celebrated players Rishabh Pant and KL Rahul will face off each other and that too against their previous teams in the last season. KL Rahul will play from Delhi Capitals while Rishabh Pant will lead Lucknow Supergiants.

Both the teams are half hurted already with many injury ad unavailability concerns. As Harry Brook has withdrawn himself out of tournament leaving Delhi's plans mid air. On the other hand LSG have been hit with a slew of injuries to their Indian pacers, with even Mayank Yadav, Akash Deep and Avesh Khan likely to be unavailable for the opening game. Shardul Thakur has come in as a replacement for Mohsin Khan.

India's star all-rounder Axar Patel will lead Delhi Capitals while KL Rahul is likely to keep wickets and play in the middle order rather than as an opener. KL has had the lowest phases from quite a long time in IPL history. He has the third-lowest strike rate among openers in IPL since 2023. On the other side, Delhi already has the better opening pair option as Faf and Jake Fraser-McGurk, one of the most explosive openers from last season. 

Meanwhile Lucknow Supergiants with a mix of experienced and freshers looks like one of the weakest teams on the paper but also has some surprise packages in the team. Amount of Indian talent is overpowering the squad with the likes of overseas players like Mitch Marsh, David Miller & Nicholas Pooran. 

Squads: 

Lucknow Super Giants Squad: Arshin Kulkarni, Mitchell Marsh, Rishabh Pant(w/c), Nicholas Pooran, Ayush Badoni, David Miller, Abdul Samad, Shardul Thakur, RS Hangargekar, Ravi Bishnoi, Shamar Joseph, Akash Deep, Shahbaz Ahmed, Manimaran Siddharth, Akash Maharaj Singh, Aiden Markram, Avesh Khan, Himmat Singh, Matthew Breetzke, Aryan Juyal, Yuvraj Chaudhary, Mayank Yadav, Prince Yadav, Digvesh Rathi

Delhi Capitals Squad: Jake Fraser-McGurk, Faf du Plessis, Abishek Porel, KL Rahul(w), Axar Patel(c), Tristan Stubbs, Ashutosh Sharma, Mitchell Starc, Kuldeep Yadav, Mukesh Kumar, T Natarajan, Karun Nair, Mohit Sharma, Dushmantha Chameera, Ajay Jadav Mandal, Darshan Nalkande, Sameer Rizvi, Donovan Ferreira, Tripurana Vijay, Manvanth Kumar L, Vipraj Nigam, Madhav Tiwari

Predicted Playing XI: 

Lucknow Super Giants: Arshin Kulkarni, Mitchell Marsh, Rishabh Pant (c/wk), Nicholas Pooran, Ayush Badoni, David Miller, Abdul Samad, Shardul Thakur, Rajvardhan Hangargekar, Ravi Bishnoi, Shamar Joseph (Impact Sub: Akash Singh/Shahbaz Ahmed)

Delhi Capitals: Jake Fraser-McGurk, Faf du Plessis, Abishek Porel, KL Rahul, Axar Patel (C) , Tristan Stubbs, Ashutosh Sharma, Mitchell Starc, Kuldeep Yadav, Mukesh Kumar, T Natarajan, (Impact Sub: Karun Nair/Mohit Sharma)

Fantasy Playing XI:

Jake Fraser-McGurk, Faf du Plessis, Nicholas Pooran, KL Rahul, Axar Patel, Mitchell Marsh, Rishabh Pant, Kuldeep Yadav, Shardul Thakur, Mitchell Starc, Ravi Bishnoi