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Before IPL 2025, Lucknow Super Giants has made an important change in the team. Lucknow has appointed Zaheer Khan as the mentor of the team. Before Zaheer, Gautam Gambhir was in this position. Lucknow owner Sanjiv Goenka has also reacted on the KL Rahul issue. There were rumors that Lucknow would not keep Rahul with them. But on this Goenka has said that Rahul is an important part of the Lucknow Super Giants family. There is still a lot of time to decide on anything.
Sanjeev Goenka said a big thing about KL Rahul
After Lucknow advised Zaheer, Sanjiv Goenka reacted on the issue of KL Rahul. According to the report, Goenka said, “KL Rahul is an important part of the Super Giants family. I will not talk about any rumor. There is still a lot of time to decide on captaincy and retention. Sanjiv Goenka was not happy with this” He also spoke rudely to Rahul after the team's defeat in the last season of IPL.
LSG could not do anything special last season
KL Rahul has performed well so far. But last season, the Lucknow team could not do anything special. Lucknow was at 7th position in the IPL 2024 points table. They played 14 matches and won 7. But in 2023, the team performed brilliantly. Lucknow played 14 matches and won 8. They faced defeat in 5 matches. Lucknow reached the playoffs.
Rahul's IPL career is coming up
If we look at Rahul's IPL career, he has played 132 matches so far. During this, he has scored 4683 runs. Rahul has scored 4 centuries and 37 half-centuries in this league. Rahul scored 520 runs in 14 matches of IPL 2024. During this, he scored 4 half-centuries. Now if Rahul is removed from the captaincy, then Krunal Pandya can get the responsibility in his place.