Lucknow Super Giants vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru Betting Preview, Odds & Predictions

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Lucknow Super Giants are one defeat away from their playoff hopes being ended.
Royal Challengers Bengaluru are one point behind leaders the Punjab Kings.
Explore betting opportunities in handicaps, batters to Score Over/Under Runs, bowlers to Take Over/Under Wickets markets and Match Sixes.

Mitchell Marsh has been scoring consistently (Getty Images).

This Lucknow Super Giants vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru prediction preview looks ahead to the IPL group match played in India. This match could see the Lucknow Super Giants’ playoff hopes ended, but if they pull off a win it would leave the Royal Challengers caught in a pack of six sides all scrapping for four playoff places.

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

The Super Giants are in terrible form, but with nothing to lose they might find the form they’ve been missing and give high-riding Royal Challengers a tough battle.

Match Details

Match	Lucknow Super Giants vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru
Competition	Indian Premier League
Date	7 May 2026
Time	16:00 SAST
Venue	Ekana Cricket Stadium, Lucknow, India

Recent Form

Team	Last 5 Matches
Lucknow Super Giants	LLLLL
Royal Challengers Bengaluru	WLWWL

The Super Giants have lost four of their last five matches by large margins, while the Royal Challengers’ strong start to the season has been mildly disrupted by two defeats in their last four matches.

Head-to-Head Record

Season	Winner	Margin of victory	Competition
2025	Royal Challengers Bengaluru	5 wickets	IPL
2025	Royal Challengers Bengaluru	5 wickets	IPL
2024	Lucknow Super Giants	28 runs	IPL
2023	Royal Challengers Bengaluru	18 runs	IPL
2023	Lucknow Super Giants	1 wicket	IPL

The Royal Challengers have had the upper hand over the Super Giants in their last four meetings. Their group clash mid-April saw the Super Giants rolled for 146, with the Challengers wrapping up the win with 29 balls in hand.

Team News

Lucknow Super Giants: Prince Yadav (13 wickets) is 6th in the wickets list and their only player to have made a consistently notable contribution this season.

Possible XI: MR Marsh, JP Inglis, Nicholas Pooran, Rishabh Pant (c), AK Markram, Akshat Raghuwanshi, Himmat Singh, Manimaran Siddharth, P Yadav, M Shami, Mohsin Khan.

Royal Challengers Bengaluru: Royal Challengers have Virat Kohli sitting 7th on the runs list and Bhuvneshwar Kumar joint top of the wickets list, so they’re a team that’s performing well, despite two losses in their last four matches.

Possible XI: Jacob Bethell, Virat Kohli, Devdutt Padikkal, RM Patidar (c), JM Sharma, Tim David, KH Pandya, Romario Shepherd, B Kumar, Josh Hazlewood, Suyash Sharma.

Key Stats

Lucknow Super Giants’ Mitchell Marsh has scored 40, 40, 55 & 44 in 5 innings.
Lucknow Super Giants’ Nicholas Pooran hit 8 sixes in his 21-ball 63 against Mumbai.
Lucknow Super Giants’ Prince Yadav has figures of 3/32, 2/25 & 2/29 in 5 matches.
Royal Challengers Bengaluru’s Virat Kohli hit 49, 19, 81, 23* & 28 in 5 innings.
Royal Challengers Bengaluru’s Devdutt Padikkal has scored 55, 34* & 40 in 3 innings.
Royal Challengers Bengaluru’s Bhuvneshwar Kumar has taken 3/27, 3/26, 3/5 & 3/28 in his last 5 matches.

Match Analysis

The last match at the Ekana Cricket Stadium saw the Super Giants hit for their sixth defeat in a row, despite holding the Knight Riders to just 155/7 off their 20 overs after recovering from 73/6. The Knight Riders hit nine sixes with the Super Giants replying with seven as the match ended in a tie, with the Knight Riders winning the Super Over.

The Ekana pitch is a lovely surface that offers something with bat and ball, but spinners often get a lot more joy out of the surface. It’s not always a high-scoring track, with first innings scores averaging a touch under 170.

Not always easy for the batters to play their strokes, so shot selection and patience is key, but there is good pace and bounce which makes for a good contest.

We can expect an evening that is clear and warm, with temperatures at the start of the match hitting 29°C, and no rain is expected. We’re in for a humidity factor of just over 50%, so as usual dew in the second innings will encourage sides to bowl first.

Betting Markets to Watch

Result

The Super Giants pose a threat because, with nothing to lose they can go out all guns blazing with bat and ball and might just knock the wind out of the Royal Challengers’ sails. I’m backing RCB to stand firm and claim the win as they have been in great form this season.

Score Over/Under Runs

Mitchell Marsh has scored 40-plus in four of his last five knocks and looks good to back to score over 25 runs in this match. Virat Kohli hasn’t scored lower than 19 this season so I’m backing him to hit 37 or more runs in the match.

Take Over/Under Wickets

Bhuvneshwar Kumar is the joint top wicket-taker and has taken three wickets in an innings in four of his last five matches and is backed to take two wickets or more.

Latest Odds

Market	Odds
Royal Challengers Win Result	1.57
Mitchell Marsh Score Over 25.5 Runs	1.83
Virat Kohli Score Over 36.5 Runs	1.83
Bhuvneshwar Kumar Take Over 1.5 Wickets	2

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Verdict

Lucknow Super Giants v Royal Challengers Bangalore

The Royal Challengers look an easy pick for the win, with Virat Kohli backed to score over 36.5 runs.

Mitchell Marsh is backed to score over 26 runs or more, with Bhuvneshwar Kumar our pick to take two or more wickets.

Royal Challengers Win

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