LSG vs DC Highlights, IPL 2026: Sameer Rizvi, Tristan Stubb take DC home from tricky position with century partnership

LSG vs DC LIVE Score, IPL 2026: Mukul Choudhury on debut started off with two fine sweeps for four off Kuldeep, and now Vipraj Nigam comes on to be greeted with a pair of fours! A leg-bye down leg first, then Samad rocks back and hammers it through square leg for four more.

Crucial for LSG to get some momentum going.

LSG vs DC LIVE Score, IPL 2026: DC are having a party in Lucknow so far! Kuldeep gets hit for six, but this is what he does – he doesn't flatten it, but makes it loopier, dares Marsh to go again. This time it's just a touch slower and Marsh has to reach out, so the off-drive goes straight into the air with absolutely no distance.

Stubbs can get underneath it, and Marsh sent packing! 71/5.

LSG vs DC LIVE Score, IPL 2026: As awkward as batting can get! There is so much dip and cruve on that devious Ngidi slower ball, which seems to knuckle through the air and leave batters clueless. It's happened to Nicholas Pooran here – he is nowehre to be found as it beats his inside edge and rattles his stumps!

Four wickets down, not a lot of runs on the board – Delhi in cruise control at the minute!

LSG vs DC LIVE Score, IPL 2026: Good first over from Kuldeep Yadav in this IPL. Swept for four first ball by Pooran, but makes the adjustment immediately. Concedes 7 off it.

Ngidi on, DC looking for the wicket that could break the back of this innings.

LSG vs DC LIVE Score, IPL 2026: Interesting decision to send in Badoni ahead of Pooran and it doesn't work! Natarajan comes on with the field out and slants it across, it's a genuine edge which KL Rahul can pouch!

LSG stumbling big-time, it's 49/3!

LSG vs DC LIVE Score, IPL 2026: That's the thing about these LSG batters – you can bowl and create concerted pressure, but they always score quickly because of how easily they can hit the boundaries.

BUT THAT'S WHAT YOU CAN DO! Captain Axar Patel on the money! Slants it in, goes on with the arm, and Markram is beaten going for the cut! His stumps are a mess – Axar has made a career with wickets like that.

One ball from the end of the powerplay and it's 48/2.

LSG vs DC LIVE Score, IPL 2026: Mukesh had enjoyed himself against Mitchell Marsh, striking him on the pad and conceding four leg byes through slip. The next ball is much better from Marsh – shuffles down the pitch and it's a perfectly timed check-drive back over Mukesh's head! With his power, there's only one result for that shot when it's hit that well.

Mukesh under the pump.

LSG vs DC LIVE Score, IPL 2026: It's said about Rishabh Pant that he finds ways to get out that have never been found before. This one happens ever so often, but this is just a microcosm of his IPL journey over the last year! Marsh hits it back to Mukesh Kumar, and it's rather chipped back – Mukesh might be able to catch that, but it brushes the underside of his hand and goes on to hit the stumps at the bowler's end!

Rishabh Pant caught backing up, and he has to walk back on just 7! It's 19/1, but that's so unfortunate.

LSG vs DC LIVE Score, IPL 2026: Good over for LSG – DC know they have to be very careful against what Mitchell Marsh can do. Can they starve him of strike through the powerplay?

LSG vs DC LIVE Score, IPL 2026: Don't get in the way of that! Too much width from Lungi Ngidi, and Marsh has all the license to swat it through point. Races away – ridiculous power.

LSG vs DC LIVE Score, IPL 2026: Rishabh Pant gets going with a confident straight drive! Rockets past Mukesh. Just a touch of movement to be wary of early on.

LSG vs DC LIVE Score, IPL 2026: This was in discussion and it is the case! Rishabh Pant opens with Mitchell Marsh, breaking up an opening duo which scored nearly 600 runs together last season!

Mukesh Kumar first up – will LSG's gamble work out?

LSG vs DC LIVE Score, IPL 2026: DC's big struggle in 2025 was thir inability to take powerplay wickets, even with Starc at their disposal. In this match, they carry a pace attack of Ngidi, Natarajan, and Mukesh – Mukesh is a good powerplay bowler, but surely they want to save as much of Ngidi as possible for the death?

The middle overs should never be a concern if Kuldeep and Axar find a rhythm.

LSG vs DC LIVE Score, IPL 2026: Three fresh overseas players for DC, with three batting overseas – good to see a fit T Natarajan, but surprising to see Auqib Nabi starting on the bench with DC bowling first!

Playing XI: KL Rahul, Pathum Nissanka, Nitish Rana, David Miller, Tristan Stubbs, Axar Patel, Vipraj Nigam, Kuldeep Yadav, T Natarajan, Lungi Ngidi, Mukesh Kumar

Bench: Ashutosh, Sameer Rizvi, Karun Nair, Chameera, Auqib Nabi

LSG vs DC LIVE Score, IPL 2026: Interesting from LSG – Mohsin Khan deemed fit and ready, but not Mayank Yadav, not even for the bench.

Playing XI: Aiden Markram, Mitchell Marsh, Rishabh Pant, Nicholas Pooran, Ayush Badoni, Abdul Samad, Mukul Choudhury, Mohsin Khan, Mohammed Shami, Anrich Nortje, Prince Yadav

Impact bench: Digvesh Rathi, Avesh Khan, Himmat Singh, Shahbaz, Raghuwanshi

LSG vs DC LIVE Score, IPL 2026: News from the middle! A couple of chuckles swapped, and it's Axar who gets the toss in his favour early. Opts to bowl first – been the go-to move.

Team news next.

LSG vs DC LIVE Score, IPL 2026: Just seconds away from when we will get news from the middle. Knowing Axar and Rishabh, they are going to ensure they entertain each other and the crowd as that coin goes up.

LSG vs DC LIVE Score, IPL 2026: In live images from the Ekana, the DC huddle has taken place, and caps have been provided out to three of DC's new overseas acquisitions – the dangerous David Miller, the stylish Nissanka, and the penetrating Lungi Ngidi. It should be Nissanka at the top with KL Rahul, Miller in the middle one side of Tristan Stubbs, and Ngidi tasked with the death bowling.

Not Auqib Nabi yet – he should also be in the mix if all goes to plan for DC.

LSG vs DC LIVE Score, IPL 2026: About 35 minutes until Rishabh Pant flicks the coin and Axar Patel calls heads or tails – so what the decision will be is interesting. Thus far, it has been a no-question win toss and bowl first kind of tournament. In Lucknow, there might finally be a quandary – LSG are the kind of team who might enjoy runs on the board, allow the powerful batting to rack up a big total and put pressure on a DC unit which can't match it for power. But nullifying Kuldeep Yadav just a touch might make them want to chase – DC won by chasing both times last year out.

Average score of 187 at the Ekana in 2025.

LSG vs DC LIVE Score, IPL 2026: For Lucknow, the big upgrade over the auction was to their seam attack. It remains an injury-prone and fragile one – they had options heading into 2025 but saw them fall over like ninepins. In 2026, they have bolstered the ranks with Mohammed Shami, Anrich Nortje, and Arjun Tendulkar – but the biggest boost is undoubtedly the fitness of Mayank Yadav, who appears to be a truly unique talent in the Indian system but simply hasn't been able to stay fit enough for enough games at a stretch. But heading into the IPL opener for LSG, he has been deemed fit – and that is exciting news for every single Indian cricket fan.

LSG vs DC LIVE Score, IPL 2026: It was almost unbelievable how out of sorts Rishabh Pant looked with bat in hand last year. He barely scratched together a 250-run season, struggling against spin and pace alike, looking incapable of scoring boundaries – until the very end, when he hammered a century against the eventual champions, opening the batting. Pant is the IPL's most expensive player, one of Indian cricket's leading faces, and a lot more is expected from him by fans and LSG ownership alike. How does he spark into action in the tournament that he took by storm nearly a decade ago now? That player is still in there – how does the LSG captain wake him up?

LSG vs DC LIVE Score, IPL 2026: Prithvi Shaw was one of the most talented and high-potential batters in Indian cricket, but lost his way through a combination of losing discipline and the pressure that came with that stature. He never quite exploded for DC despite being a regular contributor in those 2020-21 playoff teams, and was subsequently released before the 2024 auction – with no team picking him up. But with DC trying to find cover for openers, Shaw was picked up by his old franchise – and it proves to be a good decision, with Ben Duckett excusing himself and continuing the trend of English batters leaving DC shortchanged after an auction.

LSG vs DC LIVE Score, IPL 2026: For the first half of the 2025 camapign, Delhi were the best team in the country – Kuldeep Yadav was unplayable, all the players were playing their roles to a T, and Axar Patel looked comfortable leading the charge. But things began to shuffle around at the top of the order for a variety of reasons, and things fell apart: Delhi endured a long losing streak in the second half of the tournament, particularly struggling at home, and failed to make the playoffs.

LSG vs DC LIVE Score, IPL 2026: DC and LSG got their campaigns started against one another in 2025 as well, in an IPL match for the ages in Vizag. Delhi were set a steep target to chase, and looked down and out early – but a phenomenal effort by Ashutosh Sharma, and an announcement of his arrival by Vipraj Nigam on debut, saw them take it down to the wire and win with just one wicket in hand – and LSG inches away.

LSG vs DC LIVE Score, IPL 2026: The Ekana Stadium in Lucknow will be the final host city in these first five matches. So far, each of the four matches has been won by the designated home team, and each of them with relative ease. Travelling teams not quite finding their footing – will LSG make it a perfect five, or do DC spring a surprise to reverse this trend?