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Lucknow Super Giants vs Delhi Capitals Betting Preview, Odds & Predictions

Simon Lewis

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Last updated: 31 Mar 2026

Simon Lewis 31 Mar 2026

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Lucknow Super Giants will look to get off to winning ways after a poor 2025 campaign.
Delhi Capitals missed out on the playoffs by one point but have one of the weaker squads in 2026.
Explore betting opportunities in handicaps and Score Over/Under Runs and Take Over/Under Wickets markets.

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India's KL Rahul pulls against New Zealand (Getty Images).

This Lucknow Super Giants vs Delhi Capitals prediction preview looks ahead to the IPL group match played in India. The Super Giants have a strong batting line-up and should prove too strong for the Capitals.

Match Details
Recent Form
Head-to-Head Record
Team News
Key Stats
Match Analysis
Betting Markets to Watch
Latest Odds

The Capitals won half of their matches last season, while the Super Giants lost eight of 14 matches in a performance below standard for their strong squad.

Match Details

Match	Lucknow Super Giants vs Delhi Capitals
Competition	Indian Premier League
Date	1 April 2026
Time	16:00 SAST
Venue	Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ekana Stadium, Lucknow India

Recent Form

Team	Last 5 Matches
Lucknow Super Giants	LLLWL
Delhi Capitals	L–LLW

Both sides had a poor run-in to the playoffs last season which ruined any chance they had of going through after losing four matches out of five (Super Giants) and three in five (Capitals).

Head-to-Head Record

Date	Winner	Margin of victory	Competition
22 April 2025	Delhi Capitals	8 wickets	IPL
24 Mar 2025	Delhi Capitals	1 wicket	IPL
14 May 2024	Delhi Capitals	19 runs	IPL
12 April 2024	Delhi Capitals	6 wickets	IPL
1 April 2023	Lucknow Super Giants	50 runs	IPL

The Capitals have enjoyed a massive dominance over the under-performing Super Giants in the last two seasons.

Team News

Lucknow Super Giants: Lucknow’s red soil pitch will prove to the liking of Proteas paceman Anrich Nortje, with Wanindu Hasaranga likely to be on the bench.

Lucknow Super Giants squad: Himmat Singh, Aiden Markram, Akshat Raghuvanshi, Abdul Samad, Ayush Badoni, Arshin Kulkarni, Mitchell Marsh, Shahbaz Ahmed, Arjun Sachin Tendulkar, Wanindu Hasaranga, Rishabh Pant, Matthew Breetzke, Nicholas Pooran, Mukul Choudhary, Josh Inglis, Akash Maharaj Singh, Avesh Khan, Mohammed Shami, Prince Yadav, Mohsin Khan, Digvesh Singh Rathi, Manimaran Siddharth, Mayank Prabhu Yadav, Anrich Nortje, Naman Tiwari.

Delhi Capitals: Despite boasting a number of big-hitting batters, the Capitals are likely to struggle as their bowling is on the light side (with a number of them somewhat injury prone), so their wins this season will be hard-won in the field.

Delhi Capitals squad: Karun Nair, Nitish Rana, Sameer Rizvi, David Miller, Pathum Nissanka, Sahil Parakh, Prithvi Shaw, Ashutosh Sharma, Axar Patel (c), Ajay Jadav Mandal, Madhav Tiwari, Tripurana Vijay, Auqib Nabi Dar, Abishek Porel, KL Rahul, Tristan Stubbs, Dushmantha Chameera, Kuldeep Yadav, Mukesh Kumar, T Natarajan, Vipraj Nigam, Mitchell Starc, Lungi Ngidi, Kyle Jamieson.

Key Stats

Lucknow Super Giants’ Nicholas Pooran has an IPL strike-rate of 168.97 (2 293 runs).
Lucknow Super Giants’ Mitchell Marsh has scored 54 & 64* in his last 2 matches.
Lucknow Super Giants’ Rishabh Pant has scored 22, 24, 67* & 24 in his last 4 knocks.
Delhi Capitals’ David Miller has scored 39*, 20*, 24*, 63 & 22 in his last 6 innings.
Delhi Capitals’ Pathum Nissanka has scored 100*, 62 & 77 in his last 6 matches.
Delhi Capitals’ KL Rahul has hit scores of 59, 28, 130, 141 & 86* in his last 7 knocks.

Match Analysis

The Capitals will be looking for a good start through the in-form Pathum Nissanka and KL Rahul, with big-hitters David Miller and Tristan Stubbs expected to lift their score to a competitive total.

Capitals’ paceman Lungi Ngidi’s fitness will be key to their success. Ngidi was joint 6th highest wicket taker in the T20 World Cup, taking 12 wickets at an economy rate of 7.19 runs per over, and is worth backing to take 2 wickets in the match.

The Super Giants batting looks quite lethal, with Aiden Markram and Mitchell Marsh up top to be followed by Nicholas Pooran and Rishabh Pant.

The pitch at Lucknow should play into the bowlers’ hands and we’re likely to see sides passing 150 with just an over or two to spare, so a lot will depend on the big-hitting at the death. The average first Innings score is around 175, while batting second sees sides average around 160, so winning the toss is extra important in Lucknow.

Betting Markets to Watch

Handicap

The Super Giants are backed at -2.5 wickets or -3.5 runs.

Player Performance

KL Rahul has been in a rich vein of form and is worth backing as the Capitals’ best batter.

Score Over/Under Runs

Pathum Nissanka’s World Cup form makes him one to watch for scoring over 23 runs.

Take Over/Under Wickets

Lungi Ngidi’s pace and bounce puts him in line to be the Capitals’ best bowler.

Latest Odds

Market	Odds
Lucknow Super Giants Win	1.76
Delhi Capitals Win	1.96
Match to go to a Super Over	26.00

Odds with Sportingbet SA

Verdict

Lucknow Super Giants v Delhi Capitals

The Super Giants are backed at a handicap of -2.5 wickets or -3.5 runs.
KL Rahul is in form and looks good to be the Capitals’ best batter.
Pathum Nissanka is worth backing to score over 23 runs.
Lungi Ngidi should use the Lucknow pitch to his advantage.

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