Lucknow Super Giants is a franchise cricket team based in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh. They play in the Indian Premier League (IPL); the team's debut season was the 2022 edition of the IPL.
The team is owned by RPSG Group and was captained by KL Rahul and coached by Andy Flower in 2022.
Background As an expansion team, the franchise were able to add three players ahead of the 2022 mega-auction. The three players drafted were KL Rahul for 17 crore, Marcus Stoinis for 9.2 crore and leg-spinner Ravi Bishnoi for 4 crore. After these acquisitions the franchise was left with 59.8 crores ahead of the auction.
The team signed an additional 18 players at the auction. The most expensive addition to the squad was pace bowler Avesh Khan who became the most expensive uncapped player when Lucknow selected him for 10 crores.
Added Marcus Stoinis, KL Rahul, Ravi Bishnoi Acquired during the auction Deepak Hooda, Jason Holder, Manish Pandey, Quinton de Kock, Krunal Pandya, Mark Wood, Avesh Khan, Ankit Singh Rajpoot, Krishnappa Gowtham, Dushmanta Chameera, Shahbaz Nadeem, Manan Vohra, Mohsin Khan, Ayush Badoni, Kyle Mayers, Karan Sharma, Evin Lewis, Mayank Yadav.: Stadium
The play their home matches at the BRSABV Ekana Cricket Stadium in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh. The stadium has a capacity of 50,100 and has hosted several international cricket matches, including T20Is, ODIs, and a Test match. It is set to host seven of the Lucknow Super Giants' home matches during the IPL 2024 season.
Squad Players with international caps are listed in bold. Squad strength: 21 (14 - Indian, 7 - overseas) No. Name Nationality Birth date Batting style Bowling style Salary Year signed Notes Captain01 KL Rahul Right-handed Right-arm medium 2022 Captain Batters11 Ayush Badoni Right-Handed Right-Arm off-spin 2022 36Manan Vohra Right-handed Right-arm medium 2022 21 Manish Pandey Right-handed Right-arm Medium 2022 117 Evin Lewis Right-handed Right-arm medium 2022 Overseas All-rounders7Krishnappa Gowtham Right Handed Right-arm off-break 2022 17 Marcus Stoinis Right-handed Right-arm medium 2022 Overseas25 Krunal Pandya Left-handed Left Arm orthodox 2022 46 Karan Sharma Right Handed Right-arm offbreak 2022 57Deepak Hooda Right-handed Right-arm off break 2022 71 Kyle Mayers Left-Handed Right-arm medium 2022 Overseas98 Jason Holder Right-handed Right-arm medium 2022 Overseas Wicket-keepers12Quinton de Kock Left-handed - ₹6.75 crore (US$0.8 million) 2022 Overseas Spin bowlers56 Ravi Bishnoi Right-handed Right-arm leg break 2022 88 Shahbaz Nadeem Right-handed Left Arm orthodox 2022 Pace Bowlers05 Dushmantha Chameera Right-handedb Right-arm fast 2022 Overseas08 Mayank Yadav Right-handed Right-arm fast-medium 2022 39 Ankit Rajpoot Right-handed Right-arm medium-fast 2022 47 Mohsin Khan Left-handed Left-arm medium-fast 2022 65 Avesh Khan Right-handed Right-arm fast 2022 68 Andrew Tye Right-handed Right-arm medium fast NA 2022 Replacement for Mark Wood Mark Wood Right-handed Right-arm fast 2022 Overseas. Wood did not play during the season due to injury and was replaced by Andrew Tye
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Points table
Group fixtures
Playoffs Preliminary Eliminator
Statistics
Most runs No.NameMatchInnsNORunsHSAve.BFSR100s50s04s6s 1 KL Rahul 15 15 3 616 103* 51.33 455 135.38 2 4 3 45 30 2 Quinton de Kock 15 15 1 508 140* 36.28 341 148.97 1 3 0 47 23 3 Deepak Hooda 15 14 0 451 59 32.21 330 133.66 0 4 0 36 18 4 Krunal Pandya 14 13 4 183 42 20.33 145 126.20 0 0 1 16 4 5 Ayush Badoni 13 11 3 161 54 20.13 130 123.84 0 1 1 11 7 6 Marcus Stoinis 11 10 2 156 38* 19.50 106 147.16 0 0 1 7 13 7 Manish Pandey 6 6 0 88 38 14.67 80 110.00 0 0 0 9 2 8 Evin Lewis 6 5 2 73 55* 24.33 56 130.56 0 1 0 8 3
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