The 2025 season was the 4th season for the Indian Premier League (IPL) cricket franchise Lucknow Super Giants. They were one of the ten teams that competed in the 2025 IPL. Ahead of the season, Rishabh Pant was appointed as the captain. The team was coached by Justin Langer.
Lucknow Super Giants were the fifth team to be eliminated from the 2025 IPL and finished the season in seventh place with six wins from 14 matches. Mitchell Marsh scored the most runs (627) while Digvesh Rathi took the most wickets (14) for Lucknow in the 2025 season.
Pre-season
The 2025 Indian Premier League was the 18th edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL), a professional Twenty20 (T20) cricket league, organised by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI). Lucknow Super Giants were one of the four active franchises to not have won the IPL title prior to 2025. The team finished in seventh place in the previous season. The tournament featured ten teams competing in 74 matches from 22 March to 3 June 2025. Lucknow played all their home matches at Ekana Cricket Stadium.
Player retention Franchises were allowed to retain a maximum of six players from their squad, including a maximum of five recent international players. Franchises were required to submit their retention lists before 31 October 2024. Lucknow retained five players, but did not retain their prior captain KL Rahul.
+ Retained players No. Player Salary 1 Nicholas Pooran 2 Ravi Bishnoi 3 Mayank Yadav 4 Mohsin Khan 5 Ayush Badoni
+ Released players Batters Wicket-keepers All-rounders Fast bowlers Spin bowlers Devdutt Padikkal Ashton Turner KL Rahul Quinton de Kock Arshad Khan Arshin Kulkarni David Willey Krishnappa Gowtham Marcus Stoinis Krunal Pandya Kyle Mayers Deepak Hooda Prerak Mankad Mark Wood Yudhvir Singh Shivam Mavi Yash Thakur Naveen-ul-Haq Matt Henry Shamar Joseph Amit Mishra Manimaran Siddharth
Auction The season's auction took place on 24 and 25 November 2024 in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. The auction purse for each franchise was set at , with the franchises being deducted an amount from the purse for each retained player. Lucknow had a purse remaining of . Franchises that did not retain six players, were allowed Right-to-Match (RTM) cards at the auction for each player not retained. Lucknow had one card available. Lucknow bought nineteen players in the auction, including nine capped players and six overseas players. Lucknow used their RTM card to buy back Shamar Joseph for .
Squad Players with international caps as of start of 2025 IPL are listed in bold. Ages are as of . Withdrawn players are indicated by a dagger symbol () and placed at the bottom of the table.
+ Lucknow Super Giants squad for the 2025 Indian Premier League S/N Name Nationality Birth date Batting style Bowling style Salary Notes 1 Abdul Samad Right-handed Right-arm leg break 3 Ayush Badoni Right-handed Right-arm off break 6 Avesh Khan Right-handed Right-arm medium-fast 8 Mitchell Marsh Right-handed Right-arm medium-fast Overseas 10 David Miller Left-handed Right-arm off break Overseas 17 Rishabh Pant Left-handed Captain 21 Shahbaz Ahmed Left-handed Left-arm orthodox 25 Prince Yadav Right-handed Right-arm medium-fast 29 Nicholas Pooran Left-handed Overseas 30 Manimaran Siddharth Right-handed Left-arm orthodox 33 Arshin Kulkarni Right-handed Right-arm medium-fast 54 Shardul Thakur Right-handed Right-arm medium Replacement 56 Ravi Bishnoi Right-handed Right-arm leg break 63 Shamar Joseph Left-handed Right-arm medium-fast Overseas 74 Digvesh Rathi Right-handed Right-arm leg break 94 Aiden Markram Right-handed Right-arm off break Overseas Matthew Breetzke Right-handed Right-arm medium Overseas Yuvraj Chaudhary Left-handed Left-arm orthodox Akash Deep Right-handed Right-arm medium-fast Rajvardhan Hangargekar Right-handed Right-arm medium-fast Aryan Juyal Right-handed Will O'Rourke Right-handed Right-arm fast Overseas; temporary replacement Akash Singh Right-handed Left-arm medium-fast Himmat Singh Right-handed Right-arm off break 47 Mohsin Khan Left-handed Left-arm medium-fast Withdrawn Mayank Yadav Right-handed Right-arm medium-fast Withdrawn
Support staff In September 2024, it was announced that Zaheer Khan would join Lucknow in a mentorship role.
Position Name Head coach Justin Langer Assistant coach Lance KlusenerVijay Dahiya Fielding coach Jonty Rhodes Mentor Zaheer Khan Source: Wisden
League stage Lucknow Super Giants began their season with a loss to Delhi Capitals. They won their next match against Sunrisers Hyderabad but lost to Punjab Kings. Lucknow won their next three matches against Mumbai Indians, Kolkata Knight Riders and Gujarat Titans; lost to Chennai Super Kings and won against Rajasthan Royals. They lost their next four matches against Delhi, Mumbai, Punjab and Hyderabad; and were eliminated from the 2025 IPL. They won their next game against Gujarat but lost to Royal Challengers Bengaluru.
Points table
League progression
Fixtures
Statistics
At the IPL end of season awards, Nicholas Pooran was awarded for scoring most sixes in the season.
+ Most runs Runs Player 627 Mitchell Marsh 524 Nicholas Pooran 445 Aiden Markram 329 Ayush Badoni 269 Rishabh Pant + Most wickets Wickets Player 14 Digvesh Rathi 13 Avesh Khan 13 Shardul Thakur 9 Ravi Bishnoi 6 Will O'Rourke
References Original 2025 IPL Schedule vs Revised 2025 IPL Schedule
General references
External links
Lucknow Super Giants at IPLT20.com