Lucknow Super Giants lead the CSK vs LSG head-to-head record 3–2 from six IPL meetings since 2022 — but Chennai Super Kings claimed the most recent encounter, a tense 5-wicket chase at Ekana on 14 April 2025 that Dhoni sealed with a 26* off 11 balls. Here is every result, every venue breakdown, and every iconic innings in this rivalry, updated through 9 May 2026 ahead of Match 53 at Chepauk tomorrow.
CSK
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WinsVS
Total 6
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WinsHead-to-Head At a Glance
- Total matches: 6 (March 2022 – April 2025), with 1 no result due to rain in Lucknow (May 2023)
- CSK wins: 2 · LSG wins: 3 · No result: 1 (5 completed matches)
- Highest total: CSK 217/7 (April 2023, Chepauk, Chennai)
- Biggest win by margin: LSG by 8 wickets at Ekana, Lucknow (April 19, 2024)
- Last meeting: CSK won by 5 wickets at Ekana, Lucknow (April 14, 2025) — Dhoni 26* off 11 balls
📊 What the H2H Record Really Says
The 3–2 scoreline in LSG’s favour tells one story, but split it by phase and another emerges. LSG’s three wins all came from the batting side — they’ve chased successfully every time they’ve won, while the one time CSK posted a big target and defended it (217/7 at Chepauk in April 2023), they walked away with a 12-run victory. The chasing team has won all five completed fixtures, which makes toss, dew, and death-overs bowling the swing factors every time these two sides meet. LSG’s dominant 2024 double — 8 wickets in Lucknow and a record-breaking Stoinis hundred in Chennai — was powered by two players who won’t appear for them in 2026: KL Rahul (now at Delhi Capitals) and Marcus Stoinis (released). Strip those performances out and the underlying H2H is closer to level.
CSK vs LSG — Season by Season
| Season | Date | Venue | Winner | Scores | Margin | POTM |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 31 Mar 2022 | Brabourne, Mumbai | LSG | CSK 210/7 · LSG 211/4 | 6 wickets | Evin Lewis 55*(23) |
| 2023 | 3 Apr 2023 | Chepauk, Chennai | CSK | CSK 217/7 · LSG 205/7 | 12 runs | Moeen Ali |
| 2023 | 3 May 2023 | Ekana, Lucknow | No Result | LSG 125/7 (19.2 ov) — rain | — | Ayush Badoni 59* |
| 2024 | 19 Apr 2024 | Ekana, Lucknow | LSG | CSK 176/6 · LSG won | 8 wickets | KL Rahul 82(53) |
| 2024 | 23 Apr 2024 | Chepauk, Chennai | LSG | CSK 210/4 · LSG 213/4 | 6 wickets | Marcus Stoinis 124*(63) |
| 2025 | 14 Apr 2025 | Ekana, Lucknow | CSK | LSG 166/7 · CSK 168/5 | 5 wickets | MS Dhoni 26*(11) |
By Venue
| Venue | Played | CSK Wins | LSG Wins | NR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ekana Stadium, Lucknow | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Brabourne Stadium, Mumbai | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
The venue split tells you how competitive this rivalry really is. At Chepauk — supposedly CSK’s fortress — the sides are locked at 1–1. At Ekana, it’s also 1–1 from completed matches. LSG’s aggregate 3–2 lead exists only because of that solitary 2022 win at Brabourne, a neutral Maharashtra venue used during COVID-era scheduling. On their respective home grounds, neither team dominates.
Biggest Wins on Each Side
🏆 LSG’s Biggest Win — 8 Wickets, Ekana (19 April 2024)
LSG’s most dominant performance in this fixture came when Ruturaj Gaikwad’s CSK posted 176/6 at Ekana, a total that felt competitive on a slow pitch. KL Rahul (82 off 53) and Quinton de Kock (54 off 43) then put on an unbroken 134-run opening stand — at the time the highest partnership for any wicket at Ekana Stadium — to chase it down with eight wickets and 12 balls in hand. MS Dhoni’s 28* off 9 at the death had kept CSK afloat, but the target was never going to be enough on that surface. Rahul’s ninth-wicket dismissal by Jadeja, a stunning one-handed catch at backward point, was the only blemish on an otherwise flawless chase.
🏆 CSK’s Biggest Win — 12 Runs, Chepauk (3 April 2023)
CSK posted 217/7 on their Chepauk homecoming — their first match at the ground in over three years — and then Moeen Ali dismantled LSG’s chase, taking a wicket in each of his four overs. LSG were 136/5 at the 14th over before a Badoni cameo made it look close, but they fell 12 runs short at 205/7. Moeen’s four-wicket haul remains the most impactful bowling performance by either side in this rivalry.
Playoff & Final Meetings
CSK and LSG have never met in an IPL playoff fixture. Despite LSG reaching the Eliminator in both 2022 and 2023 — losing to RCB and Mumbai Indians respectively — and CSK going on to win the 2023 title, the bracket simply didn’t produce a knockout collision between these two sides. All six meetings have been regular-season matches, which means the pressure-cooker dynamic of do-or-die cricket hasn’t been tested here yet. That could change in 2026: with both teams needing wins down the home stretch, check the IPL 2026 Points Table to see how the qualification math sits ahead of Match 53.
⚡ Three Moments That Defined This Rivalry
Evin Lewis’s 55* off 23 balls at Brabourne in March 2022 — the fastest fifty of that IPL season — announced LSG to the world and left CSK 0–2 to start their year. Marcus Stoinis’s unbeaten 124 off 63 balls at Chepauk in April 2024, the highest individual score in an IPL run-chase at the time, breached “Fortress Chepauk” and handed CSK their first home defeat that season. And on 14 April 2025 — a night when CSK were mired in their worst-ever season — MS Dhoni walked out with 18 needed off 11 balls and hit a full toss over the square-leg rope, then dispatched two more boundaries to win by 5 wickets with 3 balls to spare, his first Player of the Match award since 2019. You can find full career context at MS Dhoni’s IPL stats page.
Top Performers in This Rivalry
Ruturaj Gaikwad’s unbeaten 108 off 60 balls at Chepauk in April 2024 — 12 fours and 3 sixes — remains the highest CSK innings in this fixture. His century wasn’t enough that night, but it’s the benchmark. On the other side, KL Rahul (now at Delhi Capitals) was the defining LSG batter in this rivalry, posting 82 off 53 in the 2024 Lucknow demolition and 40 off 26 in the inaugural 2022 clash. Marcus Stoinis’s 124* is the single greatest innings across these six matches, and almost certainly the most consequential: it erased a Gaikwad century and a Shivam Dube 66 in the same game. Stoinis has since been released by LSG, meaning that era of the rivalry is over.
With both Jadeja (traded to Rajasthan Royals) and KL Rahul (moved to DC) absent from 2026 editions of their franchises, the player dynamics that shaped results in 2023 and 2024 no longer apply. CSK’s 2026 squad page has the full breakdown of their rebuilt lineup under Gaikwad.
CSK Right Now (IPL 2026)
- Standing: 6th place, 10 pts from 10 matches (W5 L5)
- Captain: Ruturaj Gaikwad
- Key bat: Sanju Samson — 402 runs in 10 matches at avg 57.43, two centuries this season
- Key ball: Anshul Kamboj — 17 wickets, joint Purple Cap leader as of 9 May 2026
- Weak link: Top-order inconsistency outside Samson and Gaikwad
- X-factor: Noor Ahmad’s left-arm wrist spin on a turning Chepauk surface
LSG Right Now (IPL 2026)
- Standing: 10th place, 6 pts from 10 matches (W3 L7)
- Captain: Rishabh Pant
- Key bat: Mitchell Marsh — smashed the fastest LSG century in T20 history vs RCB (May 7)
- Key ball: Prince Yadav — 16 wickets, inside the top-5 Purple Cap standings
- Weak link: Middle-order has collapsed repeatedly; six-match losing streak only just snapped
- X-factor: Nicholas Pooran — capable of winning a match in 20 balls if he connects
CSK walk into tomorrow’s Chepauk fixture as clear favourites, and I don’t think it’s particularly close. The conditions are the decisive factor: Chepauk under lights means a spinning surface by the 10th over, and CSK’s twin spinners — Noor Ahmad and Akeal Hosein — are built for exactly this. Recall that in April 2023 here, Moeen Ali took a wicket in each of his four overs on the same ground. LSG’s batting lineup, which has leaked wickets in clusters all season, hasn’t shown it can handle quality spin when the pitch grips. Sanju Samson’s form (402 runs in 10 outings) means CSK have a batting anchor even if the top order stutters — a luxury LSG can’t match.
The contrarian read is that the H2H doesn’t flatter CSK — they’ve lost 3 of 5 completed matches against LSG, including both encounters in 2024. But that 2024 double was won by Rahul and Stoinis, who aren’t here anymore. The 2025 Lucknow result was perhaps more honest about who these teams actually are: a CSK side fighting through a terrible season still found a way to win, which says something about franchise temperament. Use the IPL NRR calculator to see what these two teams need from their final matches, but CSK almost certainly needs this win more, and need tends to be a motivator at Chepauk.
🏆 Titles & Finals
CSK have won five IPL titles — 2010, 2011, 2018, 2021, and 2023 — making them joint-most successful franchise in IPL history alongside Mumbai Indians. LSG have yet to win their maiden IPL title in their four seasons of existence. The two sides have never met in an IPL final, and given LSG’s current 10th-place position in 2026, that looks unlikely to change this season. For historical context on the broader IPL title picture, the MS Dhoni stats page traces how a single captain carried CSK to all five of those championships.
CSK vs LSG — FAQs
Who has won more matches between CSK and LSG in the IPL?
Lucknow Super Giants lead 3–2 from five completed IPL meetings between 2022 and 2025 (one match in May 2023 was abandoned due to rain with no result). LSG’s three wins include back-to-back victories over CSK in the 2024 season, while CSK’s two wins came at Chepauk in April 2023 and Lucknow in April 2025.
When was the first CSK vs LSG IPL match?
The first CSK vs LSG match was played on 31 March 2022 at the Brabourne Stadium in Mumbai, during a phase when all IPL matches were hosted in Maharashtra. LSG, in just their second-ever IPL game, chased CSK’s 210/7 with Evin Lewis hitting an unbeaten 55 off 23 balls — at the time the fastest fifty of IPL 2022 — to win by 6 wickets with 3 balls remaining.
What is the highest individual score in CSK vs LSG matches?
Marcus Stoinis holds the record with an unbeaten 124 off 63 balls (13 fours, 6 sixes) for LSG at Chepauk on 23 April 2024. His innings overhauled CSK’s 210/4 — which included a Ruturaj Gaikwad century (108* off 60) and a Shivam Dube blitz of 66 off 27 — and is widely regarded as one of the greatest individual T20 chasing knocks played in Chennai. It also stands as the highest successful run-chase in T20 cricket history at Chepauk at the time.
Have CSK and LSG ever met in an IPL playoff?
No. Despite both franchises making the playoffs in overlapping seasons — LSG reaching the Eliminator in 2022 and 2023, CSK winning the 2023 IPL title — the bracket never produced a knockout fixture between them. All six of their IPL meetings have been league-stage matches. As a result, the rivalry hasn’t yet had a high-stakes, do-or-die encounter to truly define it.
What is the highest team total in CSK vs LSG IPL history?
The highest team total in this rivalry is CSK’s 217/7 posted at MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai on 3 April 2023. CSK defended that total by 12 runs, with Moeen Ali taking wickets in each of his four overs to bowl LSG out for 205/7. The highest total by LSG in this fixture is 213/4, also set at Chepauk — in April 2024, when they successfully chased CSK’s 210/4 on the same ground.
Who won the most recent CSK vs LSG IPL match?
CSK won the most recent meeting on 14 April 2025 at Ekana Stadium, Lucknow, chasing LSG’s 166/7 with five wickets and three balls to spare. MS Dhoni hit 26* off 11 balls to win the Player of the Match award — his first such award since 2019 — in what was one of the few high points of CSK’s 2025 season, where they finished 10th overall. The next meeting between these sides is Match 53 of IPL 2026, scheduled for 10 May 2026 at Chepauk, Chennai.
Bottom Line
LSG lead the all-time CSK vs LSG head-to-head 3–2 across six IPL meetings, but that margin is built on two performances — Stoinis’s 124* and Rahul’s 82 in 2024 — from players who no longer represent Lucknow. At every ground they’ve met on, home and away, the sides are evenly split in completed matches. The deciding factor in this rivalry has always been the chasing team: all five completed results have gone to the side batting second, so the toss looms large every time these two face off. Going into Match 53 at Chepauk on 10 May 2026, CSK — with Sanju Samson’s 402-run season and Anshul Kamboj’s 17 wickets — are the side in better form and better shape to keep a playoff push alive. LSG, mathematically still alive but effectively eliminated, can at best play spoiler at a ground where they’ve won before.
