Kl Rahul | Lucknow Super Giants | IPL 2024: 17th IPL (Indian Premier League – 2024) The T20 cricket festival has been going on in India since March 22. Sunrisers Hyderabad – Lucknow Supergiants clashed in this series yesterday in a match held in Hyderabad on Wednesday.
Batting first, Lucknow scored 164 runs for the loss of 4 wickets in 20 overs. Chasing this target, Hyderabad won by 10 wickets in 9.4 overs without losing a single wicket.
Lucknow’s owner Sanjiv Goenka had spoken to the team’s captain KL Rahul after expressing his frustration on the field after the Lucknow team suffered a bad defeat. A related video is going viral on social media.
In this situation, Lucknow Supergiants team owner Sanjeev Goenka, captain K.L. The incident of disrespecting Rahul in a public place has caused unrest and some kind of confusion among the team players.
KL Rahul-led Lucknow Supergiants are 6th in the points table with 12 points. With two league games still to be played this season, speculation is rife over Rahul’s long-term future with the team.
After the Hyderabad game, cameras at the ground zoomed in on owner Sanjeev Goenka fuming at Rahul. At the time, commentator and former South Africa captain Graeme Smith said, “You always feel that these conversations have to happen behind closed doors. There are so many cameras around and they don’t miss anything. Rahul is not going to go to press conferences and maybe explain what is being discussed here.” .
The Indian Express understands that the main reason for Lucknow team owner Sanjeev Goenka’s anger towards Rahul was the Lucknow team’s lack of action in the batting. When asked about the Lucknow team, the owners questioned the team’s style of play and pointed out that the team lacked purpose. To make matters worse, the team’s net run rate has plummeted due to a heavy defeat against Hyderabad.
A day after the controversy, the team resumed operations as usual despite severe unrest in the team. Rahul is known to have followed his usual routine at the team’s pre-match briefing. But behind closed doors, talks about Rahul’s association with LSG are going on.
After acquiring the rights to the Lucknow team by paying Rs 7,090 crore in 2021, the Lucknow team management picked up Rahul for Rs 17 crore in a pre-auction deal. The team led by Rahul finished 3rd in the 2022 and 2023 seasons.
It is worth noting that during Sanjeev Goenka’s earlier tenure as the owner of Rising Pune Supergiants (now defunct), he sacked then captain MS Dhoni and replaced him with Steve Smith as the team finished 7th in 2016.
