IPL 2026 LSG vs RCB Live Cricket Score, Playing 11 Updates: Lucknow Super Giants vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru Today Match Live Scorecard

IPL 2026 LSG vs RCB Live Cricket Score, Lucknow Super Giants vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru Playing 11 Updates: The playoff spot is firmly in sight for the defending champion Royal Challengers Bengaluru, who will also pose a threat to new table-toppers Sunrisers Hyderabad’s position. RCB gun for two more points and their seventh win of the Indian Premier League 2026 when they take on an out-of-form Lucknow Super Giants at the Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ekana Cricket Stadium in Lucknow on Thursday.Story continues below this ad
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 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 his long absences at work. “Ab khush hai,” he says quietly, as if checking the truth of it speaking. (READ MORE)