KL Rahul LSG IPL 2025 Update: KL Rahul will not be seen playing in the Lucknow Super Giants team in IPL 2025. In such a situation, this team owned by Sanjiv Goenka will now be looking for a captain in the IPL season. For the last several days, there were rumors about what would be KL Rahul’s future in the Lucknow team? But now the situation has almost become clear about this.
A source associated with the team told aajtak.in that it has been decided that KL Rahul will no longer captain the Lucknow team in the upcoming IPL season. In such a situation, this franchise will be looking for a new captain. However, who will be the new captain of the Lucknow team? Will he be from within the team or will he come through a mega auction? A decision on this is yet to be taken.
Since KL Rahul steps down from captaincy, it is obvious that he will go to the mega auction, where he can be seen playing for other teams. The discussion is that now he can play for Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB), because if he goes, he can also do wicketkeeping there after Dinesh Karthik’s retirement. By the way, there are many teams in IPL 2025 who are looking for Indian wicketkeeper and batsman in the auction, in such a situation Rahul fulfills this option.
Keep in mind that KL Rahul was leading the team since the debut of the Lucknow team in IPL 2022. He led the team to the playoffs under his captaincy in IPL 2022 and IPL 2023. At the same time, the IPL 2024 season was very bad for the Lucknow team, where the team was at number seven.
Who will be the LSG captain in place of KL Rahul?
KL Rahul joined the Lucknow team in the 2022 season with a contract of Rs 17 crore. Now the question is who will be the captain of the Lucknow Super Giants team in place of KL Rahul. If we look at the statistics, apart from Rahul, there have been only two players of the team, Krunal Pandya and Nicholas Pooran, who have taken over the captaincy in his absence. In such a situation, the question is whether the management of the Lucknow team will bring a captain from within the team, or will another player take over the command of the team through the mega auction.
On May 1, 2023, Rahul suffered a hamstring injury in the match against Royal Challengers Bangalore at the Ekana Stadium in Lucknow, after which KL Rahul was not only out of the IPL, but he could not play for Team India for a long time. He suffered a serious hamstring injury during the IPL, this injury was so serious that he had to undergo surgery on his right thigh.
Since KL Rahul had to step down in IPL 2023, Krunal Pandya took over the captaincy in 6 matches. Out of these 6 matches, Lucknow won 3, lost 2 and one match was inconclusive. Similarly, KL Rahul did not play in a match of IPL 2024, then Nicholas Pooran took over as captain in his place, where he won.
Talking about KL Rahul’s captaincy of the Lucknow team, he played 37 matches as captain, where he won 20 and lost 17. In IPL 2024, Lucknow lost 7 out of 14 matches. During this time, questions were also raised on his captaincy.
KL Rahul’s performance for LSG
By the way, know how KL Rahul’s performance has been as a player for Lucknow Super Giants. In IPL 2022, KL Rahul scored 616 runs in 15 matches at an average of 51.33 and a strike rate of 135.38. At the same time, he got injured in IPL 2023, where he scored 274 runs in 9 matches at an average of 34.25 and a strike rate of 113.22. KL Rahul’s performance as a batsman was good in IPL 2024. Then he scored 520 runs in 14 matches at an average of 37.14 and a strike rate of 136.13.
If we talk about KL Rahul’s overall performance, he has been playing in IPL since 2013. During this time, he has scored 4683 runs in 132 matches at an average of 45.47 and a strike rate of 134.61. During this time, he has 4 centuries and 37 half-centuries to his name. He has also taken 76 catches and 7 stumps.
KL Rahul met Sanjeev Goenka
KL Rahul recently met Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) owner Sanjiv Goenka. Then there was a buzz that he wanted to be retained by LSG in IPL. This meeting of KL Rahul with Sanjiv Goenka took place at Judges Court Road, Alipore in Kolkata. Where his office is located. Later, another statement came from Sanjiv Goenka where he said that KL Rahul is a member of the LSG family, but he did not give any statement on retaining KL Rahul.
On the other hand, KL Rahul is no longer a member of Team India in T20. Rahul may have led LSG to the playoffs under his captaincy in two seasons of IPL, but his contribution in this was less, Gautam Gambhir’s mentorship was said to be a bigger reason. Because in 2024, without Gambhir, the team was at number seven in the points table.
Source (PTI) (NDTV) (HINDUSTANTIMES)