Lucknow Super Giants has announced its captain for the 18th season of the Indian Premier League. Lucknow Super Giants owner Sanjeev Goenka has confirmed that Rishabh Pant will be the captain of the team in IPL 2025. Lucknow Super Giants bought him in the auction for Rs 27 crore, which was the most expensive bid in IPL history. Rishabh Pant had earlier captained Delhi Capitals.
Lucknow Super Giants owner Sanjeev Goenka held a press conference with Rishabh Pant. During this, he announced that Rishabh Pant will take charge of Lucknow Super Giants. Along with this, Sanjeev Goenka claimed that Rishabh Pant will become the greatest captain in the history of IPL. Let us tell you that Rishabh Pant was earlier the captain of Delhi Capitals.
Rahul was the previous captain
Lucknow Super Giant team is playing from IPL 2022. The years 2022, 2023 and 2024 Lucknow Super Giants were captained by KL Rahul. Under his captaincy, the team had qualified for the playoffs in the years 2022 and 2023, but his team could not do so in the year 2024. Lucknow did not even retain KL Rahul before the mega auction. KL Rahul will be seen playing for Delhi Capitals team next season. This time the Lucknow team is coming with new expectations. In such a situation, the fans will have very high expectations from their new captain.
What did Goenka say about Pant?
Confirming the appointment of Pant as the captain, Lucknow's Owner Goenka said that all the strategy that was made revolved around Rishabh, all this was done keeping him in mind. Why Pant from Goenka? When asked, he said that I think, time will prove that he is not only the most expensive player of IPL but also the best player of IPL. After being named as the new captain of LSG, Pant said that it is amazing, I am overwhelmed by what sir said about me.
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