Lucknow Super Giants: Goenka and Gambhir Met UP CM Yogi, Gifted Lucknow’s First Bat

Lucknow Super Giants: Goenka and Gambhir met UP CM Yogi, gifted Lucknow’s first bat, only a few weeks are left for the 15th season of IPL (IPL 2022) to start. This time 10 teams will be seen playing in the Indian Premier League instead of 8.

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UP’s IPL team LSG will also be on the field this time. With the addition of 2 more teams in the world’s biggest cricket league, its excitement has increased manifold.

Lucknow Super Giants has gifted the first bat from their team to Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath.

The LSG Gifted The First Bat:-

Lucknow Super Giants: On this occasion, Lucknow’s mentor and former Indian cricketer Gautam Gambhir and franchise owner Sanjeev Goenka met Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath in the capital and gifted him the first bat.

For the first time, a city from Uttar Pradesh has got an opportunity to guide in the Indian Premier League. Lucknow has put up a strong team for its first season. The team includes many fine bowlers and batsmen.

Lucknow Super Giants: The new IPL franchise LSG has shared pictures of the meeting between Gautam Gambhir, Sanjeev Goenka, and Yogi Adityanath on their Twitter account.

He wrote on his Twitter account, ‘The first bat was gifted to Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath from Lucknow, thank you for his support.

• Mentor- Gautam Gambhir
• Head Coach- Andy Flower
• Captain- KL Rahul

The Lucknow is the Most Expensive Team of IPL:-

Lucknow is the most expensive team in IPL history. The Lucknow franchise was bought by RPSG Group for Rs 7090 crore. Earlier, Mumbai was the most expensive franchise of IPL, which was worth 839 crores.

Apart from Lucknow, Ahmedabad is the second most expensive IPL franchise. Ahmedabad was bought by CVC Capitals for Rs 5625 crore.

The Lucknow Team

• Total Players – 21
• Overseas Players – 7
• Amount left in purse – 0
• players included in the draft

• KL Rahul – 17 crores
• Marcus Stoinis – 9.20 crores
• Ravi Bishnoi – 4 crores

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The Lucknow bought these players in The Mega Auction:-

• Quinton de Kock – (6.75 crores)
• Jason Holder – (8.75 crores)
• Deepak Hooda – (5.75 crores)
• Krunal Pandya – (8.25 crores)
• Avesh Khan – (10 crores)
• Ankit Rajput – (50 lakhs)
• Mark Wood – (7.50 crores)
• Krishnappa Gautam – (90 lakh)
• Dushmant Chamira – (2 crores)
• Shahbaz Nadeem – (50 lakh)
• Manan Vohra – (20 lakh)
• Mohsin Khan – (20 lakh)
• Ayush Badoni – (20 lakh)
• Kyle Meyers – (50 lakh)
• Karn Sharma – (20 lakhs)
• Evin Lewis – (2 crores)
• Mayank Yadav – (20 lakhs).