Lucknow Super Giants LSG
Lucknow Super Giants are at their best defending — 52.5% wins batting first against 41.9% chasing, across 71 decided IPL matches. Innings-by-innings win rates and target bands, season by season.
LSG's Chase vs Defend by Season
No Settled Split — Chasing Better in 2 of 5 Seasons
3+ matches per role per season
No fixed identity here: across five seasons, LSG's better record has sat with chasing two times and defending two, with one season split even. The gap was widest in 2022 — 87.5% (7 of 8) defending against 28.6% (2 of 7) chasing, 58.9 percentage points between them. The last two seasons have all gone the same way — the better record chasing each year.
LSG's Win Rate by Scoring Range — Defending
Marker = League Average (LG)
Furthest Above League Average While Defending — 180–199 (75.0%, 15.0% above average)
5+ matches per band
LSG's strongest defending range is a total of 180–199 — 6 of 8 matches (75.0%), 15.0% above the 60.0% league average for this scoring range. Performance falls away with a total of 200 or more, down to 7 of 13 (53.8%), short of the league's 75.9% average here.
LSG's Win Rate by Scoring Range — Chasing
Marker = League Average (LG)
Furthest Above League Average While Chasing — 180–199 (62.5%, 21.6% above average)
5+ matches per band
LSG are most dangerous against targets of 180–199, winning 5 of 8 matches there (62.5%) — 21.6% clear of the 40.9% league average in this band. That drops to 4 of 8 (50.0%) against targets below 160, 26.1% below the 76.1% league average for this scoring range.