Today’s T20 Cricket match for the IPL 2026 was between the Lucknow Super Giants and the Delhi Capitals.
Elsewhere in the sports world, the MLB is off to a strong start, with teams like the New York Yankees and Toronto Blue Jays dominating early games. The NHL is slowly drawing to a close, with many teams seeing the finish line in a few weeks.
Just like the MLB, the IPL is just getting warmed up. On April 1st, the Lucknow Super Giants played against the Delhi Capitals. Who won today’s IPL match? Who was the Player of the Match? All of those questions and more will be answered here.
Who Won Today’s (April 1st, 2026) IPL Match Between Delhi Capitals and Lucknow Super Giants?
Here is everything you need to know about this match:
- Winner: Delhi Capitals won against the Lucknow Super Giants
- Final Score: 145/4 to 141
- Margin of Victory: 6 wickets
- Player of the Match: Sameer Rizvi
- Top Batter: Sameer Rizvi, 70 runs (47)
- Top Bowler: T Natarajan, 3/29 (4 overs)
Lucknow Super Giants vs Delhi Capitals: First Innings Stats
Here are all of the stats from the first inning of play in this April 1st match.
Lucknow Super Giants Batting Stats
Mitchell Marsh and Abdul Samad did their best to bring LSG to life with 35-run and 36-run knocks, respectively. Unfortunately for LSG, they came up short and could not secure more runs to earn a victory.
| Name | Runs | Balls | 4s | 6s |
| Mitchell Marsh | 35 | 28 | 2 | 3 |
| Rishabh Pant | 7 | 9 | 1 | 0 |
| Aiden Markram | 11 | 8 | 1 | 1 |
| Ayush Badoni | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| Nicholas Pooran | 8 | 8 | 1 | 0 |
| Abdul Samad | 36 | 25 | 3 | 1 |
| Mukul Choudhary | 14 | 11 | 2 | 0 |
| Shahbaz Ahamad | 15 | 16 | 1 | 0 |
| Mohammad Shami | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Anrich Nortje | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Mohsin Khan | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Delhi Capitals Bowling Stats
The Delhi Capitals bowlers featured two standout performances: Lungisani Ngidi and T Natarajan. Both bowlers collected three wickets each while limiting the LSG batters to under 30 runs during the course of their collective 7.4 overs.
| Name | Overs | Maidens | Runs | Wickets | Dot Balls |
| Mukesh Kumar | 3 | 0 | 17 | 0 | 11 |
| Lungisani Ngidi | 3.4 | 0 | 27 | 3 | 9 |
| Axar Patel | 3 | 0 | 17 | 1 | 9 |
| T Natarajan | 4 | 0 | 29 | 3 | 8 |
| Kuldeep Yadav | 4 | 0 | 31 | 2 | 8 |
| Vipraj Nigam | 1 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 2 |
Lucknow Super Giants vs Delhi Capitals: Second Innings Stats
These are all of the batting and bowling stats from the second innings.
Delhi Capitals Batting Stats
Sameer Rizvi earned the Player of the Match honors, and for good reason, too. Rizvi enjoyed a 70-run knock off 47 balls. This included five fours and four sixes, the most of any batter during the match.
Tristan Stubbs was the second-best batter during the match. He hit 39 runs of his own with three boundaries and a six to his credit.
| Name | Runs | Balls | 4s | 6s |
| KL Rahul | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Pathum Nissanka | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| Nitish Rana | 15 | 17 | 2 | 1 |
| Sameer Rizvi | 70 | 47 | 5 | 4 |
| Axar Patel | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Tristan Stubbs | 39 | 32 | 3 | 1 |
| David Miller | – | – | – | – |
| Vipraj Nigam | – | – | – | – |
| Lungisani Ngidi | – | – | – | – |
| Kuldeep Yadav | – | – | – | – |
| Mukesh Kumar | – | – | – | – |
Lucknow Super Giants Bowling Stats
Despite losing, the Lucknow Super Giants had a couple of standout bowling performances, particularly with Mohammad Shami, Prince Yadav, and Mohsin Khan. The most impressive of these performances is Mohsin Khan.
Khan put together a figure of 1/19 while also collecting a match-high 15 dot balls and the first maiden over of the IPL season.
| Name | Overs | Maidens | Runs | Wickets | Dot Balls |
| Mohammad Shami | 4 | 0 | 28 | 1 | 12 |
| Prince Yadav | 3 | 0 | 20 | 2 | 10 |
| Mohsin Khan | 4 | 1 | 19 | 1 | 15 |
| Anrich Nortje | 4 | 0 | 39 | 0 | 7 |
| Shahbaz Ahamad | 1 | 0 | 16 | 0 | 0 |
| Aiden Markram | 1 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 2 |
| Abdul Samad | 0.1 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 |
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