Lucknow Super Giants captain KL Rahul will chance to miss IPL 2022

IPL 2022 mega auction was done last week; All 10-franchise ready for world big cricket league. The 2022 edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2022 is less than two months away and all 10 franchises would be gearing up for the gala tournament. Lucknow Super Giants captain KL Rahul will chance to miss IPL 2022.

Lucknow Super Giants, one of the two new franchises, will be a team to watch out for as they formed a formidable squad at the mega auction earlier this month. However, fitness issues of their skipper KL Rahul is something that can worry the team management. Lucknow Super Giants (LSG), who will be making their debut appearance in the Indian Premier League (IPL), formed a formidable side having picked 18 players at the two-day mega auction in Bengaluru for the 2022 season of the tournament.

Now talks are started about Lucknow Super Giants captain KL Rahul availability of IPL 2022. Former Indian opener Aakash Chopra is of the same opinion. Rahul sustained a hamstring injury while fielding during the second ODI against West Indies earlier this month. He subsequently got ruled out for the third ODI and the succeeding T20I series. He isn’t a part of India’s upcoming T20I and Test series against Sri Lanka either.

“KL Rahul have been ruled out for the entire Sri Lankan tour. The questions do come up. There is an issue with KL Rahul’s fitness and Lucknow must be sweating said Chopra on his YouTube channel. Notably, the Lucknow-based franchise picked KL Rahul for a whooping INR 17 crore in the draft ahead of the auction. As was sensational for Punjab Kings in the last four seasons, expectations are sky high from him.

Hence, the franchise would want Rahul to get fit ahead of the season. If KL Rahul not fit before start IPL 2022, he will miss IPL 2022, it is big tension for Lucknow Super Giants. All eight of their major picks came on the opening day of the auction when they had picked wicketkeeper-batsman Quinton de Kock, West Indies all-rounder Jason Holder, England pacer Mark Wood and uncapped Indian fast bowler in Avesh Khan. They had also picked two Indian all-rounders in Deepak Hooda and Krunal Pandya.

On the second day of the mega event, Lucknow’s purchases pertained to padding up the squad with back-ups, having picked all-rounder Krishnappa Gowtham for INR 90 lakh and Sri Lankan pacer Dushmanta Chameera. Shedding light on Lucknow’s work at the auction table, team mentor Gautam Gambhir told host broadcaster Star Sports, “We are satisfied… we bought players with experience who can walk in (to the playing XI). Yes, you can invest in a younger player, but you want players who can straightaway come into the XI.

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Lucknow Super Giants retained Players: KL Rahul (INR 17 Crore), Marcus Stoinis (INR 9.2 Crore), and Ravi Bishnoi (INR 4 Crore).

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Players Bought: Quinton de Kock (INR 6.75 Crore), Manish Pandey (INR 4.60 Crore), Jason Holder (INR 8.75 Crore), Deepak Hooda (INR 5.75 Crore), Krunal Pandya (INR 8.25 Crore), Avesh Khan (INR 10 crore), Ankit Singh Rajpoot (INR 50 lakh), Mark Wood (INR 7.50 Crore), Krishnappa Gowtham (INR 90 lakh), Dushmanta Chameera (INR 2 Crore), Shahbaz Nadeem (INR 50 lakh), Manan Vohra (INR 20 lakh), Mohsin Khan (INR 20 lakh), Ayush Badoni (INR 20 lakh), Kyle Mayers (INR 50 lakh), Karan Sharma (INR 20 lakh), Evin Lewis (INR 2 Crore), Mayank Yadav (INR 20 lakh).