A solid bowling performance from Delhi Capitals, notably three-wicket hauls from Lungi Ngidi and Natrajan, has restricted Lucknow Super Giants in the IPL 2026 clash played at Lucknow.

A brilliant performance from Delhi, skittled out LSG on their homeground on Wednesday clash. After being invited to bat first, LSG opened their innings with Mitchell Marsh and Rishabh Pant opening the innings, while Mukesh Kumar opened the bowling attack.

After Pant’s unlucky dismissal for 7, Aiden Markram got dismissed for 11 runs by Axar Patel in the last over of the powerplay.

By the end of 6 overs, Lucknow Super Giants scored 48 runs with Mitchell Marsh and Ayush Badoni at the crease.

T Natrajan, who came to bowl in the 7th over, dismissed Ayush Badoni for a duck, and Pooran’s cheap dismissal for 8 runs by Lungi Ngidi. Lucknow Super Giants lost four wickets for 64 runs.

Mitchell Marsh, who tried to make an impact, was sent back to the dugout by Kuldeep Yadav for 35 runs. Abdul Samad made a decent knock as they tried to stabilise the innings.

With the dismissal of Mukul Choudhary and Abdul Samad for 15 and 36 runs, Lucknow Super Giants were down to the last three wickets.

On the other end, Mohammed Shami, Anrich Nortje and Mohsin Khan went on to lose wickets at intervals as Lucknow Super Giants got bundled out for 141 runs.

Lungi Ngidi and T Natrajan bagged three wickets while Kuldeep Yadav completed his part with two wickets.

Delhi Capitals will need to chase 142 runs in the clash to claim victory in their opener match of the IPL 2026 campaign.

Lucknow Super Giants Playing 11: Aiden Markram, Mitchell Marsh, Nicholas Pooran, Rishabh Pant(w/c), Ayush Badoni, Abdul Samad, Mukul Choudhary, Mohsin Khan, Mohammed Shami, Anrich Nortje, Prince Yadav

Delhi Capitals Playing 11: KL Rahul(w), Pathum Nissanka, Nitish Rana, Axar Patel(c), Tristan Stubbs, David Miller, Vipraj Nigam, Lungi Ngidi, Kuldeep Yadav, T Natarajan, Mukesh Kumar