LSG vs MI: Why Ravi Bishnoi Is Not Playing Today’s IPL 2025 Match?

The 16th match of IPL 2025 is being played between Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) and Mumbai Indians (MI). This exciting match is happening at the Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ekana Stadium in Lucknow.

Hardik Pandya, the captain of Mumbai Indians, won the toss and decided to bowl first. Mumbai are coming into this match after a win and are looking to continue their good form.

Lucknow Super Giants made only one change to their playing XI. Ravi Bishnoi is not playing today. He has been replaced by Akash Deep, who has fully recovered and is now fit to play.

Ravi Bishnoi has not had a good start this season. In the three matches he played, he gave away too many runs and could not control the flow of the game. He took only 3 wickets and his economy rate was over 12. Because of this, the team decided to leave him out of the playing XI for this match.

However, Ravi Bishnoi is still available as an impact substitute. If needed, Lucknow can bring him in during the game.

Here are the impact subs for both teams:

Mumbai Indians Impact Subs:

Tilak Varma, Corbin Bosch, Robin Minz, Satyanarayana Raju, Karn Sharma

Lucknow Super Giants Impact Subs:

Ravi Bishnoi, Prince Yadav, Shahbaz Ahmed, M Siddharth, Akash Singh
These are the players playing in today’s match:

Lucknow Super Giants (Playing XI):

Aiden Markram, Mitchell Marsh, Nicholas Pooran, Rishabh Pant (wk/c), Ayush Badoni, David Miller, Abdul Samad, Shardul Thakur, Digvesh Singh Rathi, Akash Deep, Avesh Khan

Mumbai Indians (Playing XI):

Will Jacks, Ryan Rickelton (wk), Suryakumar Yadav, Hardik Pandya (c), Naman Dhir, Raj Bawa, Mitchell Santner, Trent Boult, Ashwani Kumar, Deepak Chahar, Vignesh Puthur