Will the Coin flip favour Rishabh’s Lucknow or Pandya’s Mumbai?

LSG vs MI Toss Live Updates, IPL 2025: Rishabh Pant’s Lucknow Super Giants will host Hardik Pandya-led Mumbai Indians in the Indian Premier League 2025 Match No. 16 at the Ekana Cricket Stadium in Lucknow on Friday. LSG is coming into the contest after losing their previous match against Punjab Kings 8 wickets at their home ground while MI were back to winning ways after beating Ajinkya Rahane’s Kolkata Knight Riders in front of their their home crowd at Wankhede.The toss will again be a crucial factor at Lucknow’s strip. PBKS won the toss and chased down 177 in just 16.2 overs at the red soil surface, generally considered to ass batters. Both MI and LSG might want to chase if the strip remains the same. Considering both of their wins came while batting second, winning the toss and fielding first would be influential.
LSG vs MI LIVE Toss Updates IPl 2025 match at Ekana Cricket Stadium
The LSG vs MI toss is scheduled at 7:00 PM .
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Here’s how the Toss played its part last year for LSG at Ekana Cricket Stadium:
LSG at home in IPL 2024
Lucknow Super Giants won six tosses at home and enjoyed a good run in the coin flip. The team, which was led KL Rahul in IPL 2024, went on to win four of these six games where they had won the toss. LSG won two in three matches while batting first. They had a mirror record while batting second at home after winning the toss.
Toss won at home: 6/7
Matches Won after Toss win at home: 4/6; Batting first: 2/3 Batting second: 2/3
Matches Won after Toss loss at home: 0/1; Batting 1st: 0/1
Mumbai Indians in away matches in IPL 2024
Mumbai Indians’s toss-win percentage away from home last season was much more impressive than their performance. MI won five out of seven tosses in the away matches but went on to lose the match in each one of them. In the two tosses they lost in away matches, MI managed to win one of them.
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Matches Won after Toss win away: 0/5; Batting 1st: 0/1; Batting 2nd: 0/4
Matches Won after Toss loss away: 1/2; Batting 1st: 1/2
LSG vs MI, IPL 2025 Squads:
Lucknow Super Giants: Aiden Markram, Mitchell Marsh, Nicholas Pooran, Rishabh Pant(w/c), Ayush Badoni, David Miller, Abdul Samad, Shardul Thakur, Avesh Khan, Digvesh Singh Rathi, Ravi Bishnoi, Manimaran Siddharth, Prince Yadav, Shahbaz Ahmed, Himmat Singh, Akash Maharaj Singh, Matthew Breetzke, Aryan Juyal, RS Hangargekar, Yuvraj Chaudhary, Akash Deep, Mayank Yadav, Shamar Joseph, Arshin Kulkarni.
Mumbai Indians: Rohit Sharma, Ryan Rickelton(w), Will Jacks, Suryakumar Yadav, Tilak Varma, Hardik Pandya(c), Naman Dhir, Mitchell Santner, Deepak Chahar, Trent Boult, Ashwani Kumar, Vignesh Puthur, Corbin Bosch, Raj Bawa, Robin Minz, Satyanarayana Raju, Mujeeb Ur Rahman, Karn Sharma, Reece Topley, Bevon Jacobs, Krishnan Shrijith, Arjun Tendulkar