Fantasy: Expect Narine, Rahul to come good

Venue:  Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ekana Cricket Stadium, Lucknow

Average first innings score in last three years: 146

46% of the games have been won by the team batting first

Pacers have picked 51.52% of the wickets to fall here. Spinners have picked 48.48% of the wickets.

*All data from last three years

Suggested teams

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Horses for courses

Top Run scorers at this venue

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Top wicket takers at this venue

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Probable XIs

Lucknow Super Giants: Marcus Stoinis, Ashton Turner, KL Rahul (c/wk), Nicholas Pooran, Deepak Hooda, Krunal Pandya, Naveen-ul-Haq, Mohsin Khan, Ayush Badoni, Ravi Bishnoi, Mayank Yadav

Kolkata Knight Riders: Mitchell Starc, Sunil Narine, Andre Russell, Shreyas Iyer ( c ), Rinku Singh, Venkatesh Iyer, Phil Salt (wk), Ramandeep Singh, Varun Chakaravarthy, Vaibhav Arora, Angkrish Raghuvanshi

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