Lucknow Super Giants
IPL 2025 LSG Player Retention: Before the mega auction of IPL 2025, all the teams have announced their respective retentions. Lucknow Super Giants have shown their captain the way out of the team. That means LSG has released KL Rahul. There was already a possibility that Lucknow would not retain KL. Lucknow retained Nicholas Pooran the most for Rs 21 crore while Ravi Bishnoi and Mayank Yadav were retained for Rs 11 crore each. Mohsin Khan and Ayush Badoni were retained for Rs 4 crore each.
After being released from Lucknow Super Giants team, KL Rahul will now be seen trying his luck in the IPL mega auction. Let us tell you, each franchise has a purse of Rs 120 crore for retaining players and auction. All teams had the option to retain a maximum of 6 players but only Kolkata Knight Riders and Rajasthan Royals decided to retain 6 players. Apart from these two teams, the remaining 8 teams will now enter the auction with ‘Right to Match’ (RTM) cards.
Players retained by Lucknow Super Giants (LSG): Nicholas Pooran, Ravi Bishnoi, Mayank Yadav, Mohsin Khan and Ayush Badoni.
The squad of Lucknow Super Giants was like this in IPL 2024: KL Rahul (captain), Ravi Bishnoi, Deepak Hooda, Krunal Pandya, Krishnappa Gautam, Ayush Badoni, Devdutt Padikkal, Mohsin Khan, Amit Mishra, Yudhveer Charak, Prerak Mankad, Yash Thakur, Shivam Mavi, Arshin Kulkarni, M Siddharth, Arshad Khan. , Marcus Stoinis, Quinton de Kock, Nicholas Pooran, Kyle Mayers, Shamar Joseph, Naveen-ul-Haq, Ashton Turner, Matt Henry.
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