IPL franchise Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) is likely to announce its new captain ahead of the 2025 season when it holds a special press conference at the RPSG headquarters in Kolkata on Monday. But the franchise in its official communication did not mention the nature of the topics of the press conference, which is expected to be addressed by Sanjiv Goenka, the principal owner of LSG and chairman of the RPSG Group. After making the play-offs in the 2022 and 2023 IPL seasons, LSG missed the play-offs for the first time in 2024 as they finished seventh on the points table with a poor net run percentage.
Some franchise officials IANS spoke to have said one of two things, or both, could happen during Monday's press conference: the announcement of a new LSG captain or the unveiling of the franchise's new jersey, as some of the team's players are likely to be present. .
During the IPL mega auction in Jeddah last year, LSG stunned everyone by bagging Indian wicketkeeper-batsman Rishabh Pant for Rs 27 crore, making him the most expensive player ever sold at an IPL auction. With KL Rahul, their captain since the 2022 season, leaving the franchise before the auction and moving to Delhi Capitals, LSG are expected to appoint Pant as their new captain.
Pant had captained DC from the 2021 to 2024 editions of the IPL, barring the 2023 season, which he missed due to recovery from various injuries sustained in a car accident in December 2022. But before the retention deadline, he was released by DC. He ended his nine-year association with them and was picked up by LSG at the mega auction.
Other captaincy candidates that LSG have in their team include swashbuckling West Indian batsman Nicholas Pooran, who was the side's most retained player for Rs 21 crore and even captained them once in place of Rahul, as well as the South African T20I captain Aiden Markram and Australia's T20I skipper. Mitchell Marsh.
In an earlier press conference in August last year, LSG unveiled former Indian fast bowler Zaheer Khan as the new mentor of the side. Zaheer was previously associated with Mumbai Indians as director of cricket and head of global development from 2018 to 2022.
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