KL Rahul will once again be seen playing for LSG in IPL 2025, coach Justin Langer gave a big hint.

sports desk : All the franchises have released the retention list for IPL 2025. In which Lucknow Super Giants let KL Rahul go. Lucknow has retained Nicholas Puran, Mayank Yadav, Mohsin Khan, Ayush Badoni and Ravi Bishnoi. Team coach Justin Langer said that he will try to bring back players from last year's IPL team in the upcoming auction after achieving his objective of maintaining a strong core of the team.

Lucknow has retained 4 players from India. Langer said that we are very happy to include four of the best players of India. All four are very talented players. I hope that these players will perform better this time also. He said about Nicholas Puran that he is a great player. We can't wait to see him in action again.

“𝘈 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘤𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘩𝘰𝘱𝘦𝘧𝘶𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘢 𝘧𝘦𝘸 𝘧𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘢𝘳 𝘧𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘣𝘢𝘤𝘬” 👀🫡 pic.twitter.com/kAobiuFQ6s

— Lucknow Super Giants (@LucknowIPL) November 2, 2024

He said that we also have a right to match card. In this auction we will try to include as many of our players from last year as possible in our team. He said that team owner Goenka has thought long and deeply about this and as I have said, we have discussed all the possibilities again and again.

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Pooran was retained for a whopping Rs 21 crore, which is the second highest paid to a player in this retention cycle along with Royal Challengers Bangalore talisman Virat Kohli and only Sunrisers Hyderabad's Heinrich Klaasen (Rs 23 crore). Is behind. After releasing big names like captain KL Rahul, Quinton de Kock, Marcus Stoinis and Deepak Hooda, the franchise will enter the auction with a purse of Rs 69 crore.

When the LSG team entered IPL 2022, the team made KL Rahul the captain. KL Rahul has captained the team till 2024. Rahul was let go this season after LSG's poor performance last year. LSG will not bet on Rahul now.