Fantasy: Trust leg-spinners to come out on top at Ekana

Fantasy

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

Average first innings score in last three years: 139

47% of the games have been won by team batting first

Pacers have picked 47.06% of the wickets to fall here. Spinners have picked 52.94% of the wickets.

*all data from last 3 years

Suggested teams

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Top Run scorers at this venue

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Top wicket takers at this venue

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Grand League Punts

Amit Mishra and Ravi Bishnoi will be expected to play a vital role in this match. Mishra has dismissed MI skipper Rohit Sharma on seven occasions in IPL, with the batter scoring at a strike-rate of 96 (Ave 12.4) against the LSG leg-spinner.  He has also managed to dismiss Ishan Kishan thrice (Ave 2.7, SR 100). Bishnoi too has had the better of in-form Suryakumar Yadav thrice in the IPL. Suryakumar averages just  7.7 against Bishnoi, which is the lowest against a bowler. LSG will certainly have a stronghold in this game if these match-ups work.

Jason Behrendroff has been in impressive form for MI this season. He has picked up at least a wicket in every match he has played in. However, he has much more of an impact when his side have bowled first. Out of his 12 wickets, eight have come when MI have bowled first striking once every 17.1 runs and 10.5 deliveries apart. However, while defending a target, the left-arm pacer's four wickets have come at an average of 33.8 and strike-rate of 21.

Should you pick lesser LSG batters at the Ekana? It certainly makes sense as they have struggled to get going at home, having scored at a run-rate of just 7.2 (Ave 19.5)  and have struck a boundary once every 7.7 deliveries. In comparison, MI have certainly been the better when playing away, scoring their runs at 8.8 an over (Ave 28.2) and have managed to hit a boundary every 5.1 deliveries.

Probable XIs

Lucknow Super Giants: Quinton de Kock (wk), Kyle Mayers, Krunal Pandya (c), Prerak Mankad, Marcus Stoinis, Nicholas Pooran, Amit Mishra, Yash Thakur, Ravi Bishnoi, Yudhvir Singh Charak, Avesh Khan

Mumbai Indians: Ishan Kishan (wk), Rohit Sharma (c), Cameron Green, Suryakumar Yadav, Nehal Wadhera, Tim David, Chris Jordan, Vishnu Vinod, Piyush Chawla, Jason Behrendorff, Kumar Kartikeya