Delhi Capitals and Lucknow Super Giants will kick start their IPL 2026 campaigns on Wednesday at the Ekana Stadium in Lucknow. The two teams failed to make the playoffs last year, but will aim to get off to a flyer for this season. Captain Axar Patel won the toss and opted to field first.

Delhi Capitals and Lucknow Super Giants will kick start their IPL 2026 campaigns on Wednesday at the Ekana Stadium in Lucknow. The two teams failed to make the playoffs last year, but will aim to get off to a flyer for this season. Captain Axar Patel won the toss and opted to field first.

Delhi Capitals have handed debuts to David Miller, Lungi Ngidi, Nitish Rana and Pathum Nissanka in the team huddle. For Lucknow, Anrich Nortje makes his debut for the franchise.

Lucknow Super Giants (Playing XI): Aiden Markram, Mitchell Marsh, Nicholas Pooran, Rishabh Pant(w/c), Ayush Badoni, Abdul Samad, Mukul Choudhary, Mohsin Khan, Mohammed Shami, Anrich Nortje, Prince Yadav

Delhi Capitals (Playing XI): KL Rahul(w), Pathum Nissanka, Nitish Rana, Axar Patel(c), Tristan Stubbs, David Miller, Vipraj Nigam, Lungi Ngidi, Kuldeep Yadav, T Natarajan, Mukesh Kumar