Delhi Capitals vs Lucknow Super Giants: IPL Record
By CricketTaken EditorialPublished Cricket in the Indian Premier League9 min read
Delhi lead Lucknow Super Giants 5-3 in eight Indian Premier League matches, and the sequence matters more than the total. Lucknow won the first three meetings, in 2022 and 2023, by six wickets, six runs and fifty runs. Delhi have won the five since, in 2024, 2025 and 2026, and none of those five was in doubt for long except one — the extraordinary one-wicket chase in Visakhapatnam in March 2025.
The venue reading is the reverse of what the fixture list would suggest. Four of the eight have been staged at the Ekana Stadium in Lucknow and Delhi have won three of them. Delhi have hosted only one, at the Arun Jaitley Stadium in May 2024, and won it. Lucknow's two wins on neutral ground both came in Mumbai during the 2022 season, when the entire competition was played in Maharashtra.
Five of the eight have gone to the side batting second and Delhi have won four of those five, which is most of their advantage in the fixture. The three matches won by the side batting first are spread evenly: Lucknow at the Wankhede in 2022, Lucknow at home in 2023, and Delhi at home in 2024.
The eight meetings
| Season | Date | Venue | Scores | Won by | Margin | Player of the match |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 7 Apr | DY Patil Stadium, Navi Mumbai | DC 149/3; LSG 155/4 | LSG | 6 wickets | Quinton de Kock |
| 2022 | 1 May | Wankhede, Mumbai | LSG 195/3; DC 189/7 | LSG | 6 runs | Mohsin Khan |
| 2023 | 1 Apr | Ekana Stadium, Lucknow | LSG 193/6; DC 143/9 | LSG | 50 runs | Mark Wood |
| 2024 | 12 Apr | Ekana Stadium, Lucknow | LSG 167/7; DC 170/4 | DC | 6 wickets | Kuldeep Yadav |
| 2024 | 14 May | Arun Jaitley Stadium, Delhi | DC 208/4; LSG 189/9 | DC | 19 runs | Ishant Sharma |
| 2025 | 24 Mar | Visakhapatnam | LSG 209/8; DC 211/9 | DC | 1 wicket | Ashutosh Sharma |
| 2025 | 22 Apr | Ekana Stadium, Lucknow | LSG 159/6; DC 161/2 | DC | 8 wickets | Mukesh Kumar |
| 2026 | 1 Apr | Ekana Stadium, Lucknow | LSG 141; DC 145/4 | DC | 6 wickets | Sameer Rizvi |
Visakhapatnam, one wicket, three balls
Lucknow made 209 for 8 at the ACA-VDCA Stadium on 24 March 2025 — Nicholas Pooran 75 from 30, Mitchell Marsh 72 from 36 — and Delhi reached 211 for 9 with three balls to spare, having lost their ninth wicket in the process. Ashutosh Sharma made 66 from 31 to get them there and took the match award.
It is the only one-wicket result in the fixture, the highest aggregate at 420 runs, and the only match in the record in which either side has passed 209. Mitchell Starc's 3 for 42 was the most expensive successful spell of the eight; Shardul Thakur, then at Lucknow, took 2 for 19 in two overs and finished on the losing side.
The Visakhapatnam ground has been a secondary home for Delhi across several seasons and has generally produced results for the side batting second, which is what happened here, though not in a way anyone would have predicted at the halfway stage of the chase.
Lucknow's ground has been Delhi's
| Venue | Matches | DC | LSG |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ekana Stadium, Lucknow | 4 | 3 | 1 |
| Mumbai (Wankhede and Navi Mumbai) | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Arun Jaitley Stadium, Delhi | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Visakhapatnam | 1 | 1 | 0 |
Lucknow's only win at the Ekana in this fixture was the first match played there, on 1 April 2023, and it was the widest result of the eight: Lucknow 193 for 6, Delhi 143 for 9, fifty runs. Since then Delhi have chased 168, 160 and 142 there and won each time with at least eleven balls unused.
The 2026 fixture is the clearest of the three. Lucknow were bowled out for 141 in 18.4 overs — Lungi Ngidi 3 for 27, Thangarasu Natarajan 3 for 29 — and Delhi chased it with seventeen balls left, Sameer Rizvi making 70 from 47. The 141 is the lowest completed total in the record.
Delhi's win at home came in May 2024: 208 for 4, then Lucknow 189 for 9, with Ishant Sharma taking 3 for 34 and the match award. It is the only match in the fixture Delhi have won batting first.
Mark Wood's five for fourteen
The best bowling in the fixture came in Lucknow's last win. On 1 April 2023 Mark Wood took 5 for 14 in four overs, the only five-wicket haul the pairing has produced, and Delhi were held to 143 for 9 chasing 194.
It is worth putting the figures in context. Wood has bowled four overs in this fixture in total, and his economy of 3.50 across them is less a career statistic than a snapshot of one evening. The next-best return, Mohsin Khan's 4 for 16 at the Wankhede in May 2022, came in a six-run win and is the more sustainable performance: Mohsin Khan has bowled twelve overs in the fixture for 64 runs, an economy of 5.33 that no other bowler here comes near.
The first three and the last five
Lucknow's three wins were built on their batting: 155 for 4 chasing 150, 195 for 3, and 193 for 6. In none of the three did they lose more than six wickets. Delhi's five wins have been built the other way — on restricting Lucknow to 167, 189, 159 and 141, and on the one occasion Lucknow scored heavily, on chasing 210 with a wicket to spare.
That change coincides with a change in Delhi's bowling. Seven Delhi bowlers have taken three or more wickets in an innings in this fixture, and six of them did it in the last five matches: Kuldeep Yadav, Mukesh Kumar, Ishant Sharma, Mitchell Starc, Lungi Ngidi and Thangarasu Natarajan. Only Shardul Thakur's 3 for 40 at the Wankhede in 2022 came earlier, and Lucknow won that match anyway.
The batting
| Batter | For | Innings | Runs | Strike rate | Best |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nicholas Pooran | LSG | 6 | 189 | 205 | 75 off 30 |
| Rishabh Pant | DC | 4 | 157 | 139 | 44 off 30 |
| KL Rahul | LSG | 5 | 153 | 135 | 77 off 51 |
| Mitchell Marsh | LSG | 3 | 152 | 152 | 72 off 36 |
| Tristan Stubbs | DC | 4 | 145 | 165 | 57 off 25 |
| Quinton de Kock | LSG | 4 | 134 | 158 | 80 off 51 |
| Ayush Badoni | LSG | 7 | 129 | 155 | 55 off 35 |
| Axar Patel | DC | 6 | 128 | 166 | 42 off 24 |
Nicholas Pooran leads the fixture for runs from 92 balls faced, a strike rate above 205, and fourteen of his 31 boundaries have been sixes. He has two scores above sixty and no other Lucknow batter has more than one.
The Delhi list is flatter and shorter. Rishabh Pant has 157 runs from four innings without passing 44, and Axar Patel has 128 at a strike rate of 166 with a best of 42 — the two Delhi batters in this table whose highest score in the fixture is under fifty. Quinton de Kock's 80 from 51 in the first meeting of all remains the highest individual score in the pairing, which after eight matches is an unusual thing to be able to say.
KL Rahul made his 153 runs in this fixture as Lucknow's captain, before moving to Delhi in 2025.
The bowling
| Bowler | For | Innings | Wickets | Economy | Best |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kuldeep Yadav | DC | 8 | 11 | 7.57 | 3/20 |
| Ravi Bishnoi | LSG | 7 | 10 | 8.19 | 2/22 |
| Mukesh Kumar | DC | 6 | 7 | 8.57 | 4/33 |
| Mohsin Khan | LSG | 3 | 5 | 5.33 | 4/16 |
| Khaleel Ahmed | DC | 3 | 5 | 9.30 | 2/30 |
| Mark Wood | LSG | 1 | 5 | 3.50 | 5/14 |
Kuldeep Yadav has bowled in all eight matches and taken eleven wickets, more than anyone else in the fixture, and his 3 for 20 in Lucknow in April 2024 began Delhi's run of five wins. Ravi Bishnoi has ten from seven innings without ever taking three in a match, which is a fair summary of how Lucknow's spin has gone here: consistent without being decisive.
Only Wood, Mohsin Khan and Mukesh Kumar have taken four or more in an innings. Delhi's five three-wicket returns since 2024 are spread across four different matches and five different bowlers, none of whom has more than six innings in the fixture.
Reading eight matches
Delhi's five-match winning run is the longest by either side and it has been built at Lucknow's ground rather than their own, which is the least intuitive thing in the record and the hardest to draw a conclusion from.
The scoring has been moderate. Only two of the eight matches have contained a total above 195, and four of the sixteen innings finished under 150. That is a low-scoring profile for a fixture played entirely since 2022.
Both squads have changed. Lucknow's leading run-scorer against Delhi, Nicholas Pooran, is still there; their third, KL Rahul, now plays for Delhi. Delhi's wicket-taking in the fixture has come from a different pair of bowlers in each of the last three seasons.
Fuller histories are on the Delhi Capitals and Lucknow Super Giants pages, with the 2025 campaign on the IPL 2025 season page, the competition on the IPL hub and the game around it under cricket in India.
Sources and method
All eight Delhi–Lucknow Super Giants matches from April 2022 to April 2026 were compiled from ball-by-ball scorecard data, with results, venues, margins, match awards and innings figures checked against ESPNcricinfo Statsguru and the official IPL archive. The record is complete to the end of the 2026 season.
Totals count this fixture alone, credited to whichever side the player turned out for that day. Wickets exclude run-outs. Strike rates and economy rates are rounded, and where a bowler has fewer than four innings the rate is a description of those spells rather than a measure of anything wider — Mark Wood's economy of 3.50 comes from a single four-over spell.
"Lowest completed total" counts only innings in which a side was bowled out or batted its full twenty overs. The Ekana Cricket Stadium appears in official listings as the Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ekana Cricket Stadium and is shortened here; the ACA-VDCA Stadium in Visakhapatnam is a secondary Delhi home rather than a neutral venue, and is listed separately in the venue table for that reason.