At the Ekana Cricket Stadium in Lucknow on Tuesday, April 22, the Delhi Capitals (DC) defeated the Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) in the 40th IPL 2025 match. After eight games, DC is now in second place on the points table with six victories and two losses.
On a two-paced surface, LSG scored 159 runs at a cost of six wickets in 20 overs after being asked to bat first. Ayush Badoni (36) had a respectable performance to end the innings, while top order openers Aiden Markram (52) and Mitchell Marsh (45) did well. DC pacer Mukesh Kumar helped his team limit the opponents to a below-average score by taking four wickets with the ball.
On the other hand, Abhishek Porel (51), KL Rahul (57), and Axar Patel (34) helped DC easily chase down the goal in 17.5 overs. Along with taking two wickets with the ball, Aiden Markram scored a half-century in the first innings.
The crowd were entertained by the captivating action between bat and ball during Tuesday night’s IPL 2025 encounter between LSG and DC. On X (previously known as Twitter), they shared amusing memes to show their reactions.
The following are a some of the top contest-related memes:
— Out Of Context Cricket (@GemsOfCricket) April 22, 2025 Finished the chase for DC against LSG at Ekana in front of Goenka with a SIX 🤯 pic.twitter.com/BshnxPWokW
— Dinda Academy (@academy_dinda) April 22, 2025KL Rahul: I know how it feels bro. pic.twitter.com/lFUXjJ5aJh
— Silly Point (@FarziCricketer) April 22, 2025Pichli baar kya bola tha? Aukaat –
KL Rahul 🥵 pic.twitter.com/z0njhTggQW
— Dinda Academy (@academy_dinda) April 22, 2025Post match scenes tonight 💀 pic.twitter.com/HrWUrvvKQv
— Dinda Academy (@academy_dinda) April 22, 2025KL Rahul has Royally ignored Sanjeev Goenka. 😂🔥 pic.twitter.com/huRLCcw7lQ
— Ishita❤️ (@ishi_178) April 22, 2025— Out Of Context Cricket (@GemsOfCricket) April 22, 2025 KL Rahul motivation while batting today pic.twitter.com/fsAvRJYJYc
— Out Of Context Cricket (@GemsOfCricket) April 22, 2025"Batting karke thak gaye hoge aap, thodi der rest karlein?" pic.twitter.com/hPLASciHEC
— Silly Point (@FarziCricketer) April 22, 2025Match summary.#KLRahul | #RishabhPant | #LSGvsDC pic.twitter.com/bPWsvTw6n9
— Rajabets 🇮🇳👑 (@rajabetsindia) April 22, 2025“20 Runs Short” – Rishabh Pant Reviews DC’s Win Over LSG
LSG captain Rishabh Pant offered his thoughts on the defeat during the post-game presentation, saying:
“We were like 20 runs short, in Lucknow, toss plays a huge part and whoever is bowling first, they get a lot of help and we just had to stay in the game for longer period of times, but we just couldn’t get away. It always happens here in second innings, it gets better to bat on in IPL. It happens in cricket, as a team we’re not looking for excuses. One idea is, why we’re having Ayush as impact player.”
Rishabh Pant
“Just trying to fit Mayank in till he’s ready as he’s just came from NCA. Idea was to capitalize on wicket like that, after that Miller came in and we were stuck too, we need to figure these things, try to find best combination going forward in IPL. We haven’t thought about as of now, we need to regroup, just got to play the next game fresh.”
Rishabh Pant
The forthcoming IPL 2025 encounter between SunRisers Hyderabad (SRH) and Mumbai Indians (MI) will take place at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium in Hyderabad on Wednesday, April 23.
