At a special press conference held Monday at the RPSG headquarters in Kolkata, the IPL team Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) is expected to reveal its new captain before to the 2025 season.
Sanjiv Goenka, the LSG primary owner and chairman of the RPSG Group, is anticipated to speak during the news conference, although the franchise did not specify the themes in its official statement.
LSG missed the playoffs for the first time in 2024 after qualifying for the IPL playoffs in 2022 and 2023 due to a weak net run rate and a seventh-place finish on the points table.
According to various franchise executives IANS talked with, given that some team members are probably going to be there, either the presentation of the new uniform or the naming of a new LSG captain might take place during Monday’s press conference.
LSG shocked everyone by acquiring India wicketkeeper-batter Rishabh Pant for Rs 27 crore in the IPL super auction in Jeddah last year, making him the most expensive player ever to be sold at an IPL auction. It is quite likely that LSG would select Pant as their new captain because KL Rahul, who has led the team since the 2022 season, left before the auction to join the Delhi Capitals.
Except for the 2023 season, when he had to recuperate from a number of injuries he had suffered in a vehicle accident in December 2022, Pant had been DC’s captain from the 2021 to 2024 IPL seasons. However, he was released by DC prior to the retention deadline, ending his nine-year relationship with them, and was acquired by LSG in the massive auction.
Swashbuckling West Indies batsman Nicholas Pooran, who was the team’s top retained player for Rs 21 crore and even captained them once in Rahul’s place, South Africa T20I captain Aiden Markram, and Australia T20I captain Mitchell Marsh are additional candidates for the position of captain that LSG has on their roster.
Zaheer Khan, a former left-arm fast bowler for India, was introduced by LSG as the team’s new coach during an earlier news conference in August of last year. From 2018 until 2022, Zaheer served as the Mumbai Indians’ director of cricket and head of global development.
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