LSG vs GT, IPL 2025 Highlights: Lucknow ignore captain Pant's continued flop show to beat Gujarat by 6 wickets

LSG vs GT, IPL 2025 Live Score: Gill gets his half-century in the fifth ball of the 8th over, off only 31 balls, packed with five fours and a six. Takes a single to get to his second fifty this season, and then Sudharsan wraps up Rathi’s over with another single. Good over for Rathi though, leaks only seven.

GT: 88/0 (9)

LSG vs GT, IPL 2025 Live Score: 15 runs leaked in the 8th over against Markram as Gill punishes him totally! Also gets a four and six! Gill (46*) is nearing his half-century now.

GT: 81/0 (8)

LSG vs GT, IPL 2025 Live Score: Bishnoi sends a quick delivery, and Gill cuts it behind square, goes late, and on the off side. It goes past short third man for a four. NICE SHOT! Bishnoi responds with a dot and then Gill takes a single to give Sudharsan strike. Bishnoi sends it short and Sudharsan breaks his confidence, by pulling it over square leg, goes between two deep fielders, for a stunning four! SHOT!

Bishnoi sends a wide, and will need to bowl it again. But the umpire calls it a wide! Pant discusses with Bishnoi and goes for the DRS appeal! GT review! No bat involved, and it's not a wide, as it flicked the batter’s wide, umpire reversed his wide decision.

GT: 66/0 (7)

LSG vs GT, IPL 2025 Live Score: Five overs wrapped up and GT reach 44/0, with Sudharsa (18*) and Gill (25*) building an opening partnership. LSG need to break this opening partnership soon, otherwise they could get frustrated.

GT: 44/0 (5)

LSG vs GT, IPL 2025 Live Score: Rathi is sent to bowl the fourth over. He begins with a short of length delivery, Gill guides it to wide mid-on for a double. Then he takes a single and Rathi responds with a dot in the third delivery. Then Sudharsan takes a single, followed by Gill doing the same in the fifth. Sudharsan wraps up the over with a four, past Miller at cover point, who is annoyed that he missed it.

GT: 35/0 (4)

LSG vs GT, IPL 2025 Live Score: 13 runs leaked in the second over, which Akash Deep completes. Gill (9*) and Sudharsan (10*) get a four each, and have begun their partnership now.

GT: 19/0 (2)

LSG vs GT, IPL 2025 Live Score: Shardul begins with a short of length delivery, with width on offer. Sudharsan accepts that and smacks it for a four, goes between point and cover. Shardul responds with a dot and then Sudharsan takes a single.

Gill takes strike. Gill defends his first ball. Then he takes a single to give Sudharsan strike. It was a risky single. Short delivery to end the over and Sudharsan can’t get the ramp connected, and it goes to Pant. Shardul thought he heard a nick, but Pant doesn’t think so!

GT: 6/0 (1)

LSG vs GT, IPL 2025 Live Score: The action begins as Gill, Sudharsan open for GT. Meanwhile, Shardul will bowl the opening over for LSG.

LSG vs GT, IPL 2025 Live Score: LSG - Aiden Markram, Nicholas Pooran, Rishabh Pant(w/c), Himmat Singh, David Miller, Abdul Samad, Shardul Thakur, Akash Deep, Digvesh Singh Rathi, Avesh Khan, Ravi Bishnoi

GT - Sai Sudharsan, Shubman Gill(c), Jos Buttler(w), Washington Sundar, Sherfane Rutherford, Shahrukh Khan, Rahul Tewatia, Arshad Khan, Rashid Khan, Ravisrinivasan Sai Kishore, Mohammed Siraj

LSG vs GT, IPL 2025 Live Score: After winning the toss, LSG skipper Pant said, “We are going to bowl first. The wicket looks good, Happy to win the last two matches. As a team, we talk about the process and the team is responding well now. Bowlers have done a really good job, we have to give credit to them. Instead of Mitchell Marsh, Himmat Singh comes in. His daughter is not well.”

Meanwhile, GT captain Gill said, “I would have bowled first as well. I don't think the wicket is going to change much. Everyone is contributing, that's been one of the hallmarks for us, Washi comes in for Kulwant.”

LSG vs GT, IPL 2025 Live Score: Pant wins the toss and opts to bowl!

LSG vs GT, IPL 2025 Live Score: Stay tuned folks! Toss is upcoming and we will soon see Pant and Gill take centre-stage for the coin flip!

LSG vs GT, IPL 2025 Live Score: The Lucknow pitch is expected to be spinner friendly and GT went with four seamers vs RR. Sundar is expected to return to the playing XI and replace one of the pacers.

LSG vs GT, IPL 2025 Live Score: In Lucknow this season, 15 wickets have been scalped by pacers this season, with six going to spinners. After Zaheer complained there was lack of assistance for spinners, the Ekana did switch to black soil, but spinners struck only twice of the ten dismissals to fall int he 472-ru game previously.

There could also be slight rain in the evening, during the run-chase.

LSG vs GT, IPL 2025 Live Score: Digvesh has played in seven T20s, out of which five have come in IPL 2025. He has an economy rate of 7.75, and in LSG’s previous fixture vs KKR, his economy was 8.25, in a match where 472 runs were scored.

LSG vs GT, IPL 2025 Live Score: Prasidh’s pace will be a big weapon for Gill, and also his height has come in handy during the middle overs. He will look to hit the middle of the pitch and get that extra bounce against the likes of Pant and Miller.

LSG vs GT, IPL 2025 Live Score: Speaking ahead of the match, GT batter Shahrukh said, “Ashish Nehra is a very compassionate about the players, and that's why it seems like [he is animated] from the outside. He cares a lot for people around him. It is good to see the combination of Ashish Nehra and Shubman Gill.”

LSG vs GT, IPL 2025 Live Score: Speaking ahead of the match, ex-GT player Miller, who plays for LSG now, said, “The games that we have won, we've kind of found ways to win, been under pressure with our bowling and batting at certain stages and getting through that and still winning, so for me that's the encouraging part for the team.”

LSG vs GT, IPL 2025 Live Score: Against LSG, Gill has scored 176 runs in five innings, at a strike rate of 139.68. Meanwhile, Pant has 147 runs in three innings, at a strike rate of 177.1 vs GT.

LSG vs GT, IPL 2025 Live Score: Pooran has 150.08 strike rate in 363 T20 innings. Meanwhile at the Ekana, he has a 132.52 strike rate, which includes 273 runs in 16 innings. Meanwhile, Badoni who has a career T20 strike rate of 135.43, has a strike rate of 142.07 at this venue.

LSG vs GT, IPL 2025 Live Score: Against GT’s top order, Avesh will be Pant’s trump card and he has removed Gill twice in 51 T20I balls since 2022, and has leaked only 64 runs. Against Buttler, he has conceded 43 off 23 balls, but also taking his wicket thrice. Meanwhile, he has removed Shahrukh twice in only seven deliveries.

LSG vs GT, IPL 2025 Live Score: Rashid has been average for GT this season, but will once again be his side’s key player vs the big-hitting Pooran, who has hammered 24 sixes this season, nine more than Marsh, who is the second best. Rashid has dismissed Pooran twice in T20Is and has leaked 77 off 66 balls.

LSG vs GT, IPL 2025 Live Score: LSG began their season wih a loss to PBKS, and then it was followed by Zaheer Khan criticising the pitch conditions. Then it was switched from red soil to black, and they won their second game. Wins in Hyderabad and Kolkata have kept them on track and they face GT today!

LSG vs GT, IPL 2025 Live Score: Sai Sudharsan, Shubman Gill(c), Jos Buttler(w), Sherfane Rutherford, Shahrukh Khan, Rahul Tewatia, Arshad Khan, Rashid Khan, Ravisrinivasan Sai Kishore, Mohammed Siraj, Prasidh Krishna, Kulwant Khejroliya, Washington Sundar, Nishant Sindhu, Anuj Rawat, Ishant Sharma, Mahipal Lomror, Glenn Phillips, Gerald Coetzee, Karim Janat, Manav Suthar, Gurnoor Brar, Kumar Kushagra, Jayant Yadav

LSG vs GT, IPL 2025 Live Score: Mitchell Marsh, Aiden Markram, Nicholas Pooran, Rishabh Pant(w/c), Ayush Badoni, David Miller, Abdul Samad, Shardul Thakur, Akash Deep, Avesh Khan, Digvesh Singh Rathi, Ravi Bishnoi, Prince Yadav, Shahbaz Ahmed, Matthew Breetzke, Himmat Singh, Manimaran Siddharth, Akash Maharaj Singh, Shamar Joseph, Arshin Kulkarni, Yuvraj Chaudhary, RS Hangargekar, Aryan Juyal