Fantasy: Tough to look past in-form Pooran, Dube

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

Average first innings score in last three years:144

50% of the games have been won by team batting first

Pacers have picked 49.86% of the wickets to fall here. Spinners have picked 50.14% of the wickets.

*All data from last 3 years

Suggested teams

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Horses for courses

Top Run scorers at this venue

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Top wicket takers at this venue

The above graphic tells you the top bowlers at the venue in the past three years. Click here to check the full list categorized on different parameters - wickets taken, bowling average, bowling economy etc.

Probable XIs

Lucknow Super Giants: Marcus Stoinis, Quinton de Kock, KL Rahul (c/wk), Nicholas Pooran, Deepak Hooda, Krunal Pandya, Yash Thakur, Mohsin Khan, Ayush Badoni, Ravi Bishnoi, Shamar Joseph

Chennai Super Kings: MS Dhoni (wk), Ravindra Jadeja, Ajinkya Rahane, Daryl Mitchell, Shardul Thakur, Mustafizur Rahman, Tushar Deshpande, Shivam Dube, Rachin Ravindra, Ruturaj Gaikwad ( c ), Sameer Rizvi