Lucknow vs Chennai, 59th Match

BRSABV Ekana Stadium, Lucknow

Fri, 15 May 2026
7:30 PM IST, 2:00 PM GMT

Pitch Report according to previous Records:

The pitch at the Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ekana Cricket Stadium in Lucknow is traditionally sluggish and balanced, favoring spin bowlers and timing-based batters over pure power hitters. Seamers get some early swing and carry, but as the match progresses, the surface tends to slow down, offering significant grip and turn for spinners.

Official Live Pitch Report:

"It's a lovely, vast stadium and for tonight's match, it feels fairly warm and certainly very humid, but thankfully, it doesn't seem as though there's any inclement weather. So, as I get to the centre pitch, pitch number four on this square, just to update you about the dimensions, to my right, the square boundary is about 57 meters, slightly bigger, 6-meter difference to the square boundary on my left, which is 63 meters and 77 down the ground if you're bowling from that far end," informs Ian Bishop. "Well, what I'm seeing really is that this pitch also is likely to be what we find earlier in the two matches, where there won't be too many runs being scored because when you have a look at the surface, as you go, there's no grass cover whatsoever, but there are patches over here which seem to be, maybe bowler's footmarks and the rough created sometimes by even the batters running on it. And that is the reason why I have a feeling, when the ball pitches over there, it might keep low or it might behave awkwardly. There might be a little bit of turn because it looks like a very dry surface. So it looks like, when I bent down and I felt the pitch, it looked like a dry surface. There might be just a little bit of grip, particularly for the wrist spinner. So, I think both the batting teams will have to bat really extraordinarily well to get to maybe 200 plus. And if they do that, the whole crowd will be in for a treat. But I doubt it," adds Sunil Gavaskar. "Just the history of those two games, the red soil surface on a length. It offers a little bit more bounce for the seamers in that powerplay because the strike rate in those two low-scoring games has been about, what, 40 in that powerplay on a length. So, it just seems as though we'll keep our fingers crossed for high scores, but as Sunny said, batters will have to work," concludes Bishop.

BRSABV Ekana Stadium T20 Matches Records:

Last 5 T20 matches 1st inn avg score: 198

Last 5 T20 matches 2nd inn avg score: 191

Last 5 T20 matches win records: bowl first 4 - 1 bat first

LUC vs CHE Head to Head in last 5 T20s:

Lucknow 3 - 2 Chennai