Is LSG going to spend 50 crores for Rohit? Know what team owner Sanjiv Goenka said

Sanjiv Goenka. (Photo by Indranil Bhoumik//Mint via Getty Images) Rohit Sharma was removed from the captaincy of Mumbai Indians before the last IPL season and Hardik Pandya was appointed as the new captain of the team in his place. After this decision of the franchise, the fans of this team were also seen very angry. After this, there was speculation on social media that Rohit might leave Mumbai Indians before IPL 2025. Meanwhile, news also came that Lucknow has saved Rs 50 crore to buy Rohit. Now a big statement has come from LSG owner Sanjiv Goenka regarding these rumours. Recently, during an interview on Sports Tak, Sanjiv Goenka was asked whether it is true that he has kept a purse of Rs 50 crore for himself to buy Rohit. Sanjiv Goenka believes that any team will benefit from a player like Rohit Sharma, but it would not be right to spend such a huge amount on him. Sanjeev Goenka gave a big statement on buying Rohit Sharma Sanjeev Goenka said that “Nobody knows whether Rohit Sharma is participating in the auction or not? It depends on whether Mumbai Indians will release Rohit. Still, if Rohit participates in the auction and if you spend 50 percent of the purse amount on him, then how will you be able to buy other players. Everyone wants a good player and captain. It depends on what you have and what you can do with it?” Let us tell you that before IPL 2025, Lucknow Super Giants has appointed former Indian veteran fast bowler Zaheer Khan as the new mentor of the team. Earlier Gautam Gambhir was the mentor of LSG but last season Gambhir joined his old team Kolkata Knight Riders. Now Zaheer Khan will be seen in this new role.

“He is like family…”, said Sanjiv Goenka on KL Rahul’s future in LSG

KL Rahul has been an important part of the Super Giants family. He has been there since the beginning – Sanjiv Goenka Sanjeev Goenka & KL Rahul (Photo Source: Lucknow Super Giants’ performance in IPL 2024 under the captaincy of KL Rahul was disappointing. During the season, there was a lot of commotion and tension between owner Sanjiv Goenka and captain KL Rahul. Ahead of the upcoming IPL 2025 auction, there are reports that LSG may release Rahul. Also, his former franchise Royal Challengers Bangalore may show interest in buying him. Let us tell you, before the IPL 2022 mega auction, Lucknow Super Giants bought Rahul for Rs 17 crore. Amidst speculations of KL Rahul’s retention, LSG owner Sanjeev Goenka has made a big statement. Goenka says that Rahul is an integral part of the team and he is like family to him. KL Rahul has been an important part of the Super Giants family- Sanjiv Goenka Amidst the news of KL Rahul’s release from LSG, Sanjeev Goenka recently invited KL Rahul to dinner in Kolkata, the pictures of which are going viral on social media. Speaking at a recent press conference, Goenka said, I am surprised that this meeting is getting so much attention. As I said earlier, we have not considered retention until the BCCI makes a rule. All I can say is that KL has been an important part of the Super Giants family. He has been there from the beginning, has played a very important role. For me personally, he is like family and will remain family. Sanjeev Goenka further talked about IPL retention, he said that there is enough time and a decision has to be taken carefully as the future of the team depends on it. We have the entire time of September, October and November to take a decision. We should wait for the retention policy to come. We have not even thought about the future team, whether the retention will be three-four-five or six, we do not know. Let’s see, there is enough time, whatever decision we take today will have an impact on the future, so a decision has to be taken after a lot of thought and consideration.

KL Rahul met LSG owner Sanjiv Goenka, what is the significance of this meeting, understand?

During IPL 2024, there was a tussle between LSG owner Sanjiv Goenka and captain KL Rahul. KL Rahul meets LSG owner Sanjiv Goenka KL Rahul meets LSG owner Sanjiv Goenka: Led by KL Rahul, Lucknow Super Giants performed brilliantly in their first two seasons of IPL and reached the playoffs. But things did not go well for both Lucknow Super Giants and KL Rahul during IPL 2024. During the tournament, there was a lot of commotion and tension between franchise owner Sanjiv Goenka and captain KL Rahul. After this, there are reports that KL Rahul may now leave the franchise. At the same time, LSG is also considering its new captain and management. However, meanwhile, there is news that KL Rahul has met LSG owner Sanjiv Goenka regarding retention for IPL 2025. KL Rahul met LSG owner Goenka “Yes, Rahul came to Kolkata and met Dr Goenka at the RPG head office. He has clearly told Dr Goenka that he wants to be retained. However, until the BCCI brings in a retention policy, the LSG management would not like to chalk out its plans,” an IPL Governing Council member, who is privy to LSG, told PTI on condition of anonymity. “Look, Rahul wants to be retained but until LSG knows how many are to be retained and what the new purse is, they cannot commit to anyone,” the IPL source further added. Rahul may have to come in the auction At the moment, it is being said that even if LSG retains Rahul, which is unlikely, he will not be the first retention. Retaining players like KL Rahul means that a huge amount can be deducted from the purse. And no franchise would want to invest such a huge amount (18-20 crores). It is also being said that the kind of batting style KL Rahul has is not suitable for T20 cricket. Apart from this, the franchises for which Rahul has captained have not been very successful. This is the reason why KL Rahul may have to come to the auction again, where he may not be in much demand. According to reports, Lucknow Super Giants’ deal with Zaheer Khan has been finalised and he will be announced as the mentor soon.

“IPL team owners come from business background”- KL Rahul created a sensation with his statement

KL Rahul captained the Lucknow Super Giants in IPL 2024. KL RAHUL (Pic Source BCCI/IPL) During the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2024, there was some commotion between Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) captain KL Rahul and the owner of this franchise team, Sanjiv Goenka. The Lucknow Super Giants franchise team was added to the IPL in IPL 2022. KL Rahul has captained this franchise team in the last three seasons. However, since the tussle between Sanjiv Goenka and KL Rahul in the 2024 IPL, there have been constant reports that LSG may release KL Rahul this season. After IPL 2024, some friendly pictures of KL Rahul and Sanjiv Goenka did come, but it seems that everything is not well between these two yet. Through a podcast, KL Rahul has said a lot about Sanjiv Goenka without naming him. KL Rahul gave a big statement regarding the owner of the IPL team KL Rahul said in Nikhil Kamat’s podcast, ‘The team owners in IPL come from a business background, they do a lot of research to select the players of the team, but this does not guarantee that you will win every match. You can select the best player according to the data, but it is possible that the year may go completely waste for that player, any player can have to go through bad days in the game.’ Meanwhile, different reports are coming about KL Rahul, where it is claimed that the Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) team is currently in contact with this batsman and can go after him in the mega auction for IPL 2025. Talking about IPL 2024, KL Rahul is the most expensive player playing in IPL for India. KL Rahul’s salary is Rs 17 crore. At number two in this case is Rohit Sharma, who plays for Mumbai Indians and his salary is Rs 16 crore.

KL Rahul was very scared after the show ‘Koffee With Karan’, the best player himself made a big revelation

Currently KL Rahul is preparing for Duleep Trophy 2024. Hardik Pandya and KL Rahul. (Photo Source: Twitter) Indian team’s star wicketkeeper-batsman KL Rahul had to face a lot of problems when he went to the famous talk show ‘Koffee With Karan’ with his teammate Hardik Pandya in 2019. Both these Indian players had made some such statements, after which both of them had to face a lot of problems. Not only this, after their statement, the Board of Control for Cricket in India also suspended both the players for some matches. Let us tell you that both Pandya and Rahul had to return home in the middle of India’s Australia tour due to suspension. Recently KL Rahul revealed that he had to face a lot of things during this controversy. Not only this, this interview had completely changed him and he was also very scared of it. KL Rahul said on the YouTube channel of Podcast with Nikhil Kamat, ‘I was very good at trolling. I used to think that I don’t care about anyone. I was very young at that time. However, a few years ago I was trolled a lot. I used to be trolled when I used to sit and even when I used to stand, I used to be trolled. Interviews were a different world that changed me. I was a very quiet person and then when I played for India, my confidence grew a lot. People know that I have been in a room of 100 people. I didn’t know how to handle it: KL Rahul The best player of the Indian team further said, ‘Now I don’t do this because the show Koffee With Karan scared me a lot. Not only this, I was also suspended from the team. I have never been suspended from school nor have I been punished. I did not know how to face it. I have been very naughty in school but I have never been expelled from there nor have my family members been called.’ Currently KL Rahul is preparing for the Duleep Trophy 2024. He himself is working hard to get into the Indian team. Let us tell you, the Indian team now has to play a Test series against Bangladesh. Not only this, the team will also participate in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy against New Zealand and then Australia. Shaheen Afridi became a father, his wife gave birth to a son Top 10 best innings of Shikhar Dhawan in International Cricket- List of batsmen who have scored the most Test centuries on foreign soil- VIRAL VIDEO: Rohit Sharma is going to become a father again…! This team has won the Champions Trophy the most number of times 10 beautiful and HOT pictures of Shubhman Gill’s sister ENG vs IND: India will tour England in 2025, BCCI released the schedule Rohit Sharma does not like KL Rahul at all…! Proof found Breaking: Jay Shah will now leave BCCI and become the chairman of ICC…! List of top-5 batsmen who scored the most centuries in WTC-

On This Day In 2021: On this day KL Rahul scored an iconic century at Lord’s, fans still remember it

On this day in the year 2021, KL Rahul played a brilliant innings of 129 runs against England at the Lord’s Cricket Ground. KL Rahul (Photo Source: X/Twitter) Indian player KL Rahul was recently seen playing in the ODI series of the Sri Lanka tour. Rahul’s performance in the first two matches was not very good, due to which the management dropped him in the third ODI and included Rishabh Pant in the playing 11. Team India will now be seen playing the Test series against Bangladesh directly from September 19. Meanwhile, the cricket world is remembering the brilliant century played by KL Rahul against England at Lord’s Cricket Ground on this day, 12 August 2021. This innings of Rahul is considered to be one of the best innings played by an Indian batsman on England soil in Tests. KL Rahul has got his name registered on the honour board of Lord’s Stadium The second match of the five-match Test series between England and India in the year 2021 was played at Lord’s Cricket Ground from 12-16 August. In the first innings of this match, the opening pair of KL Rahul and Rohit Sharma gave Team India a great start, with a partnership of 126 runs for the first wicket between the two batsmen. KL Rahul faced 250 balls and scored 129 runs with the help of 12 fours and a six. It was on the basis of this brilliant century that India scored 364 runs in the first innings. Let us tell you, KL Rahul got his name registered on the honor board of Lord’s Cricket Stadium by scoring a century. THE KL RAHUL SPECIAL AT LORD’S…!!!! – Rahul smashed an iconic hundred “OTD in 2021” to help India win a famous victory at the Home of Cricket. pic.twitter.com/6RTFgjosiH — Johns (@CricCrazyJohns) August 12, 2024 Rahul also won the Player of the Match title Host England also played brilliantly in the first innings of the Lord’s Test, the team scored 391 runs on the basis of Joe Root’s innings of 180 runs. India then declared the second innings at 298 runs, Ajinkya Rahane scored the highest score of 61 runs. At the same time, Mohammad Shami scored an unbeaten 56 runs. England’s team was all out for 120 runs while chasing a target of 272 runs and India registered a historic victory of 151 runs at Lord’s. Mohammad Siraj took 4 wickets and Jasprit Bumrah took 3 wickets. KL Rahul won the Player of the Match title by making the biggest contribution in this victory.

Before the mega auction of IPL 2025, the franchise may release these 3 captains

Today we tell you about three such players who can be removed from the captaincy before the mega auction of IPL 2025. IPL 2025 (Pic Source-X) All Indian fans are eagerly waiting for the Indian Premier League 2025. The mega auction of this great tournament is going to happen very soon. All the franchises would like to include many great players in their team in the upcoming mega auction. There will be some captains who captained their respective franchises in the 2024 season but they can be removed from this important post in the 2025 season. Today we tell you about three such players who can be removed from the captaincy before the mega auction of IPL 2025. Not only this, all these three players can also be seen playing for different teams in the upcoming edition. 1. Shubman Gill Shubman Gill (BCCI/IPL) Before the Indian Premier League 2024 season, Mumbai Indians traded Hardik Pandya from Gujarat Titans and appointed him as the captain of their team. After this, Gujarat Titans made the excellent opening batsman Shubman Gill their captain in the 2024 season. Let us tell you, under the captaincy of Hardik Pandya, Gujarat Titans won the Indian Premier League 2022 trophy while also made it to the final of the 2023 season. After Hardik Pandya left the Gujarat team, many people expected that Rashid Khan could be appointed as the new captain of the team. However, the franchise handed over this important responsibility to Shubman Gill. Under the captaincy of Shubman Gill, Gujarat Titans’ performance was very poor in the Indian Premier League 2024. The team won only 5 out of 14 matches while they lost 7. Gujarat Titans were at the eighth position in the points table of IPL 2024.

Aakash Chopra slammed the management for the continuous changes in the batting lineup of the Indian team during the Sri Lanka tour

India performed poorly in the ODI series and were defeated by Sri Lanka 2–0. Aakash Chopra (Photo Source: Twitter) India’s tour of Sri Lanka ended on 7 August. In this tour, India clean swept Sri Lanka 3-0 in the T20 series. However, India’s performance in the ODI series was quite poor and Sri Lanka defeated them 2-0. Under the coaching of Gautam Gambhir, the Indian team could not perform well in the ODI format. In this ODI series, it was seen that a lot of changes have been made in the batting lineup of the Indian players. Former player Aakash Chopra put forward his point of view regarding this. In the T20 series, Suryakumar Yadav, Rinku Singh and Riyan Parag also bowled very well and took important wickets for their team. However, in this tour, the players of the Indian team failed to bat well. Aakash Chopra said on his official YouTube channel, ‘Number four has now become a revolving door as we have given batting order to different players in every match. What is the idea of ​​making a player like KL Rahul bat at number 6 or number seven? Why don’t you fight from the beginning? In India, KL Rahul was included in the playing XI for only two matches and then he was dropped. It was really surprising to see this because KL Rahul was in his plans since 2023. This is also because no one else had scored more runs than him in the middle order since 2023. Number four has now become a matter of concern for the Indian team Let us tell you, in the first ODI match played between India and Sri Lanka, Washington Sundar batted at number four but he scored only five runs. After this, Shivam Dubey was given this important responsibility in the second ODI but he could not even open his account and India lost the match. In the third and final ODI match, Rishabh Pant was included in the team and was given batting at number four but he returned to the pavilion after scoring good runs. The Indian team will have to give a chance to such a player in this order as soon as possible, who can bat well at number four and win the hearts of all the fans. 5 Australian players who scored half-century in their debut IPL match IPL 2024: These 11 foreign players took crores of rupees but flopped IPL 2024: 5 players who hit the most sixes in the 19th and 20th overs of IPL 5 fastest bowlers in IPL history Who are the head coaches of all 10 teams in IPL 2024? Which team has won the most matches against RCB in Chinnaswamy IPL 2024: 3 former RCB players who are wreaking havoc in SRH 4 players who have played more than 500 T20 matches MS Dhoni: Dhoni’s amazing record as CSK captain Which teams changed their captains before the start of IPL 2024

“It’s a joke…” Why was KL Rahul dropped from the team for the third ODI? Former cricketer demands an answer

Dodda Ganesh has criticised the Indian management for their decision to leave out an experienced player like KL Rahul for this do-or-die encounter. KL Rahul (Photo Source: X/Twitter) Former India fast bowler Dodda Ganesh has questioned the decision to drop KL Rahul and replace him with Shivam Dubey in the ODI match against Sri Lanka. Ganesh called the move ridiculous and said that KL Rahul had captained India in this format only a short time ago. Sri Lanka won the series 2-0 by defeating India by 110 runs in the third and final ODI played at R. Premadasa Stadium in Colombo on Wednesday, 7 August. Batting first, the host team scored 248 runs. After this, Dunith Welalage took 5 wickets for 27 runs in 5.1 overs and the Indian team collapsed for 138 runs in 26.1 overs. The Men in Blue made two changes to their playing XI for this do-or-die encounter. Rishabh Pant replaced KL Rahul, while Riyan Parag replaced Arshdeep Singh. Ganesh on his X handle has criticised the Indian management for the decision to leave out an experienced player like KL Rahul for this do-or-die encounter. Ganesh wrote in his post “Only a crazy person would replace KL Rahul with Shivam Dube and Riyan Parag for such an important match. Can’t understand what is happening. He was leading India just 3 ODIs ago and suddenly, after a flop performance, he is out of the playing XI. What a joke. Only in a crazy universe will u have Dube and Riyan Parag playing ahead of KL Rahul, in a decider ODI. Don’t understand what’s happening. He was leading India just 3 ODIs ago and all of a sudden, one failure & he is out of the playing XI. Ridiculous is an understatement. #SLvIND — Dodda Ganesh दौद्ग गानेश (@doddaganesha) August 7, 2024 The 51-year-old former Karnataka fast bowler also warned that dropping players after one or two failures could create a sense of insecurity in them. He wrote in the next post- “If a player who had great success last year can be dropped on a technicality after one failure, it creates a sense of insecurity among the players. Well, you can’t build a cricket team like that. Who would have thought that India would lose so easily to Sri Lanka?” If a player who’s had great success in the last year can be dropped after technically one failure, it creates a sense of insecurity amongst players. Well, you can’t build cricket teams like this. Who would’ve thought that India would lose to SL so convincingly? #SLvIND — Dodda Ganesh दौद्ग गानेश (@doddaganesha) August 7, 2024 What is your opinion? Was it the right move to keep KL Rahul out of the team in the last decisive match?

SL vs IND, 3rd ODI: These 11 big records can be made during the match, Rohit, Kohli and Rahul will create history

The last match of the three-match ODI series between India and Sri Lanka will be played on August 7 in Colombo. SL vs IND (Photo Source: Getty Images) SL vs IND, 3rd ODI: The last match of the three-match ODI series between India and Sri Lanka will be played in Colombo on August 7. The host team is leading the series 1-0. The first match of the series was a tie, while in the second match, Sri Lanka won by 32 runs. In the match, Sri Lanka batted first and scored 240 runs for the loss of 9 wickets. In response, Team India had a good start while chasing the target. Captain Rohit Sharma and Shubman Gill had a partnership of 97 runs for the first wicket. But the team faltered again and was all out for 208 runs in 42.2 overs. Jeffrey Vandersay took the maximum of 6 wickets for Sri Lanka. Team India would like to win the third ODI and end the series at 1-1. The Sri Lankan team will enter the match with the intention of winning the series. Let us tell you which records can be made by the players during the third ODI match- These records can be made during the third ODI match- 1. KL Rahul (199) is about to play the 200th match of his international career. 2. Charith Asalanka (1957) is 43 runs away from completing 2000 runs in the ODI format. 3. Virat Kohli (1298) is just 4 fours away from completing 1300 fours in the ODI format. 4. Rohit Sharma (95) is 5 catches away from completing 100 catches in ODIs. 5. Virat Kohli (26922) is 78 runs away from completing 27000 runs in his international career. 6. Charith Asalanka (43) needs seven sixes to complete 50 sixes in the ODI format. 7. Virat Kohli (13,886) is 114 runs away from completing 14,000 runs in the ODI format. 8. KL Rahul (2,851) needs 149 runs to complete 3000 runs in the ODI format. 9. Kusal Mendis (384) is 13 fours away from completing 400 fours in the ODI format. 10. Rishabh Pant (90) is 10 fours away from completing 100 fours in his international career. 11. Chamika Karunaratne (451) is 49 runs away from completing 500 runs in the ODI format.