Delhi Capitals and Lucknow Super Giants will open their IPL 2026 campaign on Wednesday (April 1). The match between the past and present teams of star Indian wicketkeeper-batter Rishabh Pant is scheduled to take place at the Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ekana Cricket Stadium in Lucknow. Pant, who is the most expensive player in IPL history, would like to come up with a big show with the bat this season after managing to score only one century in the cash-rich league last year for the Lucknow-based franchise.
On the other hand, Delhi Capitals will have high expectations from the likes of Axar Patel and KL Rahul along with Sri Lanka’s Pathum Nissanka. Nissanka, the highest run getter in T20Is for Sri Lanka, will make his IPL debut this
year and will likely play as an opener for Delhi on Wednesday. Apart from him, Jammu and Kashmir’s fast bowler Auqib Nabi Dar is a player to watch out for Delhi.
Auqib, who was signed for Rs 8.40 crore by Delhi Capitals in the IPL 2026 auction, topped the wicket-takers list in the Ranji Trophy 2025-26, and he is set to lead DC’s bowling attack along with Lungi Ngidi and Mukesh Kumar in Mitchell Starc’s absence.
LSG vs DC: Head-to-head in IPL
- Matches played: 7
- LSG won: 3
- DC won: 4
- No result: 0
Results for LSG vs DC matches in IPL
| WINNER | MARGIN | LOSER | VENUE | DATE |
| Lucknow Super Giants | 6 wickets | Delhi Capitals | Navi Mumbai | April 7, 2022 |
| Lucknow Super Giants | 6 runs | Delhi Capitals | Mumbai (WS) | May 1, 2022 |
| Lucknow Super Giants | 50 runs | Delhi Capitals | Lucknow | April 1, 2023 |
| Delhi Capitals | 6 wickets | Lucknow Super Giants | Lucknow | April 12, 2024 |
| Delhi Capitals | 19 runs | Lucknow Super Giants | Delhi | May 14, 2024 |
| Delhi Capitals | 1 wicket | Lucknow Super Giants | Visakhapatnam | March 24, 2025 |
| Delhi Capitals | 8 wickets | Lucknow Super Giants | Lucknow | April 22, 2025 |
Top performers and record-holders in IPL matches between Lucknow Super Giants and Delhi Capitals:
- Highest total: 211/9 in 19.3 overs by Lucknow Super Giants in Visakhapatnam on March 24, 2025.
- Lowest total: 143/9 in 20 overs by Delhi Capitals at Ekana Stadium in Lucknow on April 1, 2023.
- Biggest win (by runs): Lucknow Super Giants won by 50 runs (Target: 194) in Lucknow on April 1, 2023.
- Biggest win (by wickets): Delhi Capitals secured win by 8 wickets (Target: 160) in Lucknow on April 22, 2025.
- Most runs: 181 runs in 5 matches by Nicholas Pooran of Lucknow Super Giants.
- Highest score: 80 runs from 52 balls by Quinton de Kock for LSG at DY Patil Stadium in Navi Mumbai on April 7, 2022.
- Most sixes: 14 maximums in 5 matches by Nicholas Pooran for Lucknow Super Giants.
- Most 50+ scores: 2 scores of 50+ each by Nicholas Pooran for LSG and Abishek Porel for DC.
- Most wickets: 10 wickets in 7 matches by Ravi Bishnoi for Lucknow Super Giants.
- Best bowling figures: 5 for 14 in four overs by Mark Wood for Lucknow Super Giants in Lucknow on April 1, 2023.
- Most matches: 7 matches each by Ayush Badoni and Ravi Bishnoi (for LSG) and Kuldeep Yadav and Axar Patel (for DC).
Likely playing XIs of LSG vs DC for IPL 2026 match on March 30
- Lucknow Super Giants: Mitchell Marsh, Aiden Markram, Rishabh Pant (C & WK), Nicholas Pooran, Himmat Singh, Ayush Badoni, Abdul Samad, Shahbaz Ahmad, Mohammed Shami, Mayank Yadav, Digvesh Rathi. Impact player: Mohsin Khan/Avesh Khan/Anrich Nortje/Arshin Kulkarni
- Delhi Capitals: KL Rahul (WK), Pathum Nissanka, Nitish Rana, Tristan Stubbs, Axar Patel (C), David Miller, Ashutosh Sharma, Vipraj Nigam, Auqib Nabi Dar, Kuldeep Yadav, Lungi Ngidi. Impact player: Mukesh Kumar/T Natarajan/Prithvi Shaw, Abishek Porel/Sameer Rizvi
Squads for IPL 2026
Lucknow Super Giants: Rishabh Pant (C & WK), Nicholas Pooran (WK), Josh Inglis (WK), Aiden Markram, Matthew Breetzke, Himmat Singh, Akshat Raghuwanshi, Mohammed Shami, Avesh Khan, Mayank Yadav, Anrich Nortje, Mohsin Khan, Manimaran Siddharth, Digvesh Rathi, Akash Singh, Prince Yadav, Arjun Tendulkar, Naman Tiwari, Mitchell Marsh, Wanindu Hasaranga, Ayush Badoni, Abdul Samad, Shahbaz Ahmed, Arshin Kulkarni
Delhi Capitals: Axar Patel (C), KL Rahul (WK), Nitish Rana, Abishek Porel (WK), Ajay Mandal, Ashutosh Sharma, Dushmantha Chameera, Karun Nair, Kuldeep Yadav, Madhav Tiwari, Mitchell Starc, Sameer Rizvi, T Natarajan, Tripurana Vijay, Tristan Stubbs, Vipraj Nigam, Mukesh Kumar, David Miller, Ben Duckett, Auqib Nabi, Pathum Nissanka, Lungi Ngidi, Sahil Parikh, Prithvi Shaw, Kyle Jamieson.
