IPL 2025: lucknow made a big move, and created a sensation by retaining this foreign player, not KL Rahul
LSG Retention List IPL 2025: lucknow Super Giants has not released its retention list. But the name of the first player retained by the team has come out!
Nicholas Pooran Retain LSG
A big update has come out on the retention list of lucknow Super Giants. According to Cricbuzz, West Indies' dashing wicketkeeper-batsman Nicholas Pooran reached RPGS house on tuesday to meet LSG owner sanjeev Goenka. It has been claimed in this report that Pooran has signed a deal to play for the next several seasons. Pooran has now become the first player to get a deal for IPL 2025.
According to the report, Nicholas Pooran has been retained as the first retention i.e. for Rs 18 crore. According to the retention policy issued by BCCI, the player retained at number one will get an amount of Rs 18 crore, but the team can retain the player by paying more than this amount at its convenience. Let us remind you that Pooran was bought by LSG for Rs 16 crore in the last auction, that is, this time he would be getting a profit of Rs 2 crore.
According to Cricbuzz, a lucknow Super Giants official, "Nicholas Pooran is committed to LSG and wants to move forward with a winning mindset. He has a different way of thinking and is capable of performing well in any batting order and any situation." The news of Pooran being retained has come at a time when the rumors of KL Rahul being released from LSG are at their peak.
Created havoc in IPL 2024
Nicholas Pooran was the second-highest run-scorer for lucknow Super Giants in IPL 2024. He scored 499 runs in 14 matches at an impressive average of 62.38. Apart from scoring three half-centuries in the season, he also stole the show by hitting 36 sixes. He has played a total of 29 IPL matches for lucknow so far, in which he has scored 857 runs including five fifties. His average for this team is around 43.
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