IPL 2025: DC vs LSG, Match 4 - Fantasy Cricket Tips, Key Players, Probable XIs, Captain, Vice-Captain & More

 Delhi Capitals (DC) and Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) will face each other in the fourth match of IPL 2025. The match will be played at DC’s second home ground, ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium in Visakhapatnam on March 24. It will be an interesting contest between both teams as Rishabh Pant, who was DC’s skipper till 2024, will now be seen leading LSG in IPL 2025. Apart from that, LSG’s former skipper KL Rahul is set to play for DC this year.

Both DC and LSG are yet to win an IPL title and will be looking to start their campaign with a big win. DC will have Axar Patel as their new skipper for the ongoing season and will be hoping to get their fortunes changes under him. Let’s have a look at fantasy cricket tips, pitch report, probable XIs, captain, vice-captain, and more ahead of the SRH vs RR IPL 2025, match 4.

DC vs LSG Match Details

DC vs LSG IPL Head-to-Head Stats & Records

Delhi Capitals and Lucknow Super Giants have played five matches against each other in the IPL so far. Out of these five matches, LSG won three times while DC come out victorious twice against them.

DC vs LSG Pitch Report

The surface of the ACA–VDCA Stadium is favourable for the batters where the teams batting first look to post a big total on board. Out 15 IPL matches played at this ground, the team batting first won eight times while the chasing team came out victorious on seven occasions.

DC vs LSG Probable Playing XIs

DC Probable Playing 11: Jake Fraser-McGurk, KL Rahul, Faf du Plessis, Abishek Porel (wk), Axar Patel (c), Tristan Stubbs, Mitchell Starc, Kuldeep Yadav, Mukesh Kumar, Mohit Sharma, T Natarajan.

Impact Player: Karun Nair

LSG Probable Playing 11: Rishabh Pant (c & wk), Aiden Markram, Mitchell Marsh, Nicholas Pooran, Ayush Badoni, Abdul Samad, David Miller, Shahbaz Ahmed, Ravi Bishnoi, Shardul Thakur, Akash Singh

Impact Player: Arshin Kulkarni

DC vs LSG IPL 2025 Full Squads

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

Lucknow Super Giants: Ayush Badoni, Avesh Khan, Mohsin Khan, Ravi Bishnoi, Mayank Yadav, Nicholas Pooran(WK), Arshin Kulkarni, Manimaran Siddharth, Shamar Joseph, Aiden Markram, Shahbaz Ahmed, Yuvraj Chaudhary, Rishabh Pant(WK)(C), Aryan Juyal(WK), Mitchell Marsh, David Miller, Himmat Singh, Matthew Breetzke, Abdul Samad, Rajvardhan Hangargekar, Akash Singh, Akash Deep, Prince Yadav, Digvesh Singh.

Top Captaincy and Vice-Captaincy Picks for DC vs LSG Match

Q. Why are Nicholas Pooran and Axar Patel top choices for captaincy picks?

LSG batter Nicholas Pooran will be a player to look out for in the IPL 2025 clash against DC. He has been a consistent scorer for LSG from the last few years and is expected to play a big knock in the upcoming match.

On the other hand, DC skipper Axar Patel carries an ability to turn the match around with his all-round performance. He will play a crucial role in while bowling in the middle-overs and could show some big hits while batting.

Q. Why are Ravi Bishnoi and Jake Fraser-McGurk top choices for vice-captaincy picks?

LSG leg spinner Ravi Bishnoi can turn out to be a crucial player in the middle-overs and could take big wickets. On the other hand, DC opener Jake Fraser-McGurk will be looking to continue his last year’s form and play a fiery knock in VIsakhapatnam.

DC vs LSG IPL 2025, Match 4: Top Players to pick

Nicholas Pooran: Nicholas Pooran has been a constant run scorer for LSG for the last few years and has been a strength of LSG’s middle-order. He will play a crucial role in the first game and will also get support from batters like Rishabh Pant and David Miller.

Nicholas Pooran’s Last five matches batting figures

Ravi Bishnoi: Led spinner Ravi Bishnoi can turn out to be a game changer for LSG in the first game against DC. Bishnoi will play a crucial role in the middle overs and will be looking to take full advantage of the conditions.

Jake Fraser-McGurk: Young opening batter Jake Fraser-McGurk has been a find for DC in IPL 2024 and was impressive with his fiery batting throughout the season. He will look to carry forward his last year’s form and play a big knock against LSG.

Jake Fraser-McGurk’s Last five matches batting figures

Axar Patel: DC’s new captain Axar Patel is looking in great form in recent times and has been impressive with both and ball. He is known for taking crucial wickets at big moments and scoring quickfire 40 to 50 runs which turn out to be game changing. He will be looking to make his first match as full-time DC captain memorable by registering another all-round performance.

Axar Patel’s Last Five Matches: Bowling & Batting figures

DC vs LSG IPL 2025, Match 4: Players to avoid

Mitchell Starc: Star fast bowler Mitchell Starc is a player everyone would want in their fantasy team. However, talkign about his records in the IPL, Starc is unlikely to make an impact in the opening game against LSG.

Mitchell Marsh: All-rounder Mitchell Marsh hasn't been able to make an impact from the last couple of years in the IPL and isn't a kind of player to make a bet on in the first match.

DC vs LSG Fantasy Team 1

Wicketkeepers:  KL Rahul, Nicholas Pooran, Rishabh Pant

Batters: Ayush Badoni, David Miller, Faf du Plessis, Jake Fraser-McGurk (vice captain)

All Rounders: Axar Patel (captain), Shabaz Ahmed

Bowlers: Kuldeep Yadav, T. Natarajan

DC vs LSG Fantasy Team 2

Wicketkeepers: KL Rahul, Nicholas Pooran (captain), Rishabh Pant

Batters: Faf du Plessis, David Miller, Jake Fraser-McGurk, David Miller

All-Rounders: Axar Patel

Bowlers: Kuldeep Yadav, T. Natarajan, Ravi Bishnoi (vice-captain)

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