Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) IPL 2026 Live Cricket Score Updates: Rain interrupted proceedings after Royal Challengers Bengaluru won the toss and opted to bowl first against Lucknow Super Giants at the Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ekana Cricket Stadium in Lucknow on Thursday. Lucknow made 3 changes with Josh Inglis, Mohsin Khan and Avesh Khan all sitting out while Arshin Kulkarni and Shahbaz Ahmed come in. RCB are playing with the same team.
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A win over LSG would vault the defending champions to the top of the points table, ahead of overnight leader SRH.
With their campaign already all but over, the bottom-placed LSG will play for self-respect as they eye only their third win of the season. Rishabh Pant’s side have been winless at home in their last nine games, with their last victory at Ekana coming against Gujarat Titans in April 2025.
Having lost seven of their nine games in IPL 2026 thus far, LSG sit at the bottom of the points table with just four points.
RCB lead the head-to-head record, having won five of the seven meetings against LSG. The defending champions beat Lucknow by five wickets at home earlier this season when the two sides last faced each other.
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Prince Yadav: The ‘bigda hua’ son his father tried to stop
Lucknow Super Giants’ Prince Yadav celebrates a wicket during an Indian Premier League cricket match. (AP Photo)
“Mayank Yadav ek Indian player hai. Avesh Khan Indian player hai. Mohsin Khan, woh bhi India khel sakta hai. Sachin Tendulkar ka ladka Arjun bhi hai. Tera number kaise padega?”
The extended pace pack at the Lucknow Super Giants camp had rattled Ram Niwas Yadav in ways his son’s IPL contract the previous year had not. He’d counted the names aloud. He knew what each one meant. Sitting in the corner of the living room on a rainy April afternoon, Ram Niwas holds his chai without the weight he used to carry. His cousins Surender and Vikram have settled in around him—the family punctuated by his long absences at work. “Ab khush hai,” he says quietly, as if checking the truth of it by speaking. (READ MORE)
