KL Rahul
IPL 2025 mega auction may happen next month. Before the mega auction, all teams can retain a maximum of 6 players, including RTM. If a team retains 5 players, they will have the opportunity to use one RTM at the time of the auction. While retaining 6 players, the teams will have to retain 5 capped players and also include one uncapped player. All the franchises have to submit the list of their retained players to the IPL Governing Council on October 31.
Rahul can go to mega auction
According to the report of ESPNcricinfo, Lucknow Super Giants team can retain 5 players. The special thing is that KL Rahul’s name is not included in it. He was captaining the team in IPL for the last 3 seasons, but under his captaincy the Lucknow team could not win the title even once. Questions have also been raised on his strike rate.
Lucknow Super Giants team is ready to retain Nicholas Puran, Mayank Yadav, Ravi Bishnoi as capped players. Apart from this, youngsters Mohsin Khan and Ayush Badoni can be retained as uncapped players. The franchise will have to pay Rs 4 crore to retain the uncapped player. It is almost certain that these five players will be back in the Lucknow team. Apart from this, Lucknow will also have the option of an RTM for the mega auction.
Nicholas Puran can also become captain
It is believed that the Lucknow team can retain Nicholas Puran at number one and can pay Rs 18 crore for this. Puran also took command of the team in the absence of KL Rahul in IPL 2024. He is known for explosive batting and can turn the match on his own. He can also perform the responsibility of wicketkeeper. So far he has scored 1769 runs in 76 IPL matches, which includes 9 half-centuries. Lucknow team can also make him captain.
Mayank Yadav gave a strong performance
Mayank Yadav was successful in impressing everyone in his first IPL season. He won the Player of the Award in his first two IPL matches. After this he got injured. He has played a total of four matches, in which he was successful in taking 7 wickets. Lucknow team bought him for IPL 2024 for Rs 20 lakh. Recently he made his debut in the T20 series against Bangladesh. Ravi Bishnoi has also performed well for the team in IPL and has emerged as a big match winner.
The team was at number 7 in IPL 2024
The Lucknow team had made it to the playoffs in IPL 2022 and 2023, but then the team could not progress beyond the eliminator. Apart from this, the team performed very poorly in IPL 2024, when it was at number 7 in the points table, far from reaching the playoffs.
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