Weather in Ekana Cricket Stadium: Weather Forecast in Lucknow for LSG vs CSK IPL 2023 Match Today

Toss has been delayed ahead of Indian Premier League 2023 Match 45 between Lucknow Super Giants and Chennai Super Kings at the Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ekana Cricket Stadium. With rain making its presence felt around several parts of Northern India, a delay to a match being played in Lucknow today isn’t surprising by any means.

Although it had been raining occasionally in the city since morning, match officials announced an official toss delay only a few minutes before the scheduled time, i.e., 03:00 PM (local time).

Historically, the month of May is generally known for soaring temperature as part of the peak summer season in India. Having said that, western disturbances causing a drastic change in the climate have slowed down the onset of the Indian summers this year.

Weather in Ekana Cricket Stadium

Fourth match of the season to have suffered an unfortunate fate on the part of weather gods, it is noteworthy that it might just become the first IPL 2023 match to face a loss of overs due to the climatic conditions.

If reliable weather portal BBC Weather is to be believed, rain probability will remain below 50% throughout the match hours on a double-header day. Slated to commence at 03:30 PM, there are 43% chances of rain over the Ekana Sports City at the time. In spite of a minor decrease, the number will remain in this vicinity till night (almost 08:00 PM).

Therefore, it wouldn’t be wrong to speculate a start-stop arrangement in what is going to be third match between Super Giants and Super Kings in IPL history.

UPDATE: The cut-off time for a match was 07:28 PM. However, the match officials called-off the match 30 minutes prior to that due to incessant weather conditions.

Hourly Weather in Lucknow Today

03:30 PM – 27 degree (Rain Probability – 43%).

04:30 PM – 26 degree (Rain Probability – 38%).

05:30 PM – 26 degree (Rain Probability – 36%).

06:30 PM – 25 degree (Rain Probability – 32%).

07:30 PM – 24 degree (Rain Probability – 37%).

08:30 PM – 23 degree (Rain Probability – 8%).

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Dixit Bhargav

Born and brought up in Pathankot, Dixit Bhargav is an engineering and sports management graduate who works as a Cricket Editor at The SportsRush. Having written more than 10,000 articles across more than five years at TSR, his first cricketing memory dates back to 2002 when former India captain Sourav Ganguly had waved his jersey at the historic Lord’s balcony. What followed for an 8-year-old was an instant adulation for both Ganguly and the sport. The optimist in him is waiting for the day when Punjab Kings will win their maiden Indian Premier League title. When not watching cricket, he is mostly found in a cinema hall watching a Punjabi movie.

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