Lucknow IPL Team Owner

Lucknow Super Giants IPL Cricket team is one of the newly formed cricket teams in the Indian Premier League a cricket extravaganza that happens every year in India and at times abroad. The Cricket Premier League has given new players to the Indian Cricket team and many of them have proved their worth in world cricket. The cricket league is recognized by BCCI and it makes one of the most fascinating money-making leagues in cricket. The teams are in huge numbers who play matches against each other and then on a points basis they reach the semi-finals. With two semi-finals being part of the IPL for a team and one semi-final for another team the finalists. The two teams reaching the final fight for the trophy and the match takes 20 overs per side. It is one of the best t20 matches tournament held in India. The teams play under lights and the weather is fine as most of the matches are played in April.

Lucknow Super Giants are one of the teams that in the current year has a captain, KL Rahul. It has the Coach as Justin Langer. Home Ground is BR SABV Ekana Cricket Stadium, Lucknow. It has won 0 IPL titles to date although is one of the most promising teams in this season. It has owners as RPSG Group. Lucknow Super Giants is one of the two teams that have come up as a new team to IPL ahead of the 2022 season. Lucknow IPL team owner ahead of the IPL 2022 Harsh bought this team for a record sum of Rs 7090 Crore. It adds with an approx. amount of US$940 Million. The team owner is RP Sanjay Goenka Group. He previously owned the Rising Pune Superguard franchise in 2016 and 2017. Andy Flower was the head coach and Gautam Gambhir was the mentor. Although both of them moved away from the team. The franchise has shown great response in the first two years of competition.

Lucknow Super Giants' history is not in the deep past but in the last few years, it has emerged as a favorable team. Lucknow Super Giant is a team that was formed the same year as Gujarat Titans. The debut of the franchisee in 2022.  Lucknow Super Giants was eliminated by Royal Challengers Bangalore in 2022. Mumbai Indians went passed them in 2023. In 2024 LSG could not reach the Semi-finals as KKR crushed them out in match number 54. KKR made a total run of 235/6 and LSG could make only 137 all out in 16.1 overs.

The key players at Lucknow Super Giants are as:

KL Rahul: Lucknow Super Giant owner Mr. Sanjay Goenka has bought KL Rahul as captain for Rs 17 Crore. Or $ 2.28 million approximately. It makes him one of the highest-paid IPL players. He has become the highest run scorer with Punjab Kings in past seasons. He has been on top of the charts for LSG in the first season with 616 runs. Again with the year 2024 the second highest run scorer in 2022 edition.

Quinton De Kock is one of the impact players at Lucknow Super Giant chosen by Sri Sanjay Goenka. He has been part of Mumbai Indians top run scorer in 2023. He has been part of a winning team with back-to-back trophies. He scored over 500 runs with LSG's inaugural season and was third on overall charts.  

Nicholas Pooran was one of the biggest players in the first season of 2023. He played a 15-ball half-century in the crucial match with a contribution to give LSG a chance to reach the play-offs. He played pace ballers by sending their balls all over the park and beyond boundary lines. He has a well-managed strike rate of 198.14 and finished the season with 26 fours and as many sixes. He got selected by Sri Sanjay Goenka for his team LSG. 

Avesh Khan is one of the premium bowlers as he took 24 wickets for Delhi Capitals in 2022. Avesh became the first ever uncapped player to hit the Rs 10 Crore mark. He got selected in the IPL auction by Sri Sanjay Goenka. He finished as a top 10 wicket-taker in IPL 2024. Lucknow traded him to Rajasthan Royals for Devdut Padikal.

This shows the acumen of Sri Sanjay Goenka in choosing the right team for his franchisee that he has made for IPL as Lucknow Super Giants. After most of his endeavors in the corporate world and being one of the most successful Goenkans he has been part of the corporate and cricket world.

His team Lucknow Super Giant made him one of the most prolific businesspeople in franchise-making and ruling the world in cricket.

Here are some of the strides made by Lucknow Super Giants season by season:

As a team, Lucknow Super Giant played well in the 2024 season. LSG although failed to make it into playoffs and first time in three years after prolonged struggles with batting at the top. It adds with bowling attack without much fuss. Although KL Rahul and Nicholas Pooran LSG found little rhythm throughout the season which reaches in the middle of the points table.

In the 2023 season after winning eight league stage games, LSG made it to playoffs. It was with second time in a row and knocked out in the eliminator. Lost their captain KL Rahul in the middle of the season. Afghanistan seamer took wickets in eight games within the debut season.

In 2022 with the debut season Super Giants qualified for playoffs with nine wins at the end of group stage. KL Rahul, Deepak Hooda, and Quinton De Kock made 1600 runs between them and uncapped seamer. Mohsin Khan has had a breakthrough season in this tournament. It has a high-scoring eliminator against Royal Challengers Bangalore.

The Lucknow Super Giants become one of the 10 most popular cricket clubs in IPL. In March 2024, the Club has 4.6 million followers on social media. 

Franchise history of Lucknow Super Giants

The governing council of IPL issued an institution with the tender of two new sides in August 2021, A total of 22 companies declared some interest but with a high base price with new teams. The Sanjay Goenka-owned RPSG Group won the rights to operate in Lucknow. The franchisee offered a huge bid of Rs 7,090 Core equivalent to rs 80 trillion or US$900 Million in 2023.

The team launched with a competition to decide its name and it was chosen in Jan 2022 as Lucknow Super Giants. The name is derived from the owner’s name abbreviation. Sri Sanjay Goeka as a Suffix added as Super Giant. The Suffix is part of the previous IPL franchisee Rising Pune Supergiants and with the renaming of Mohun Bagan’s Athletics Club with footballing division to Mohan Bagan Super Giant. 

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Lucknow Super Giant is a professional franchise cricket team that is based in Lucknow, UP. The team plays home matches at Ekana Cricket Stadium in Lucknow. The team is owned by RPSG Group. It is previously owned by Rising Pune by the Supergiant franchise between 2016 and 2017.

India billionaire and entrepreneur, chairman and founder of RPSG Group. His estimated net worth is around $3.4 Billion which is approximately Rs 28,390 Crore. He is passionate about sports such as football and cricket. He is with multiple teams as the Indian Super League, the Football club Mohun Bagan Super Giant, and the Indian premier league team Lucknow Super Giants which is captained by KL Rahul.