January 24
The New IPL Team To Be Called As Lucknow Super Giants
The name of new IPL Team Of Lucknow will be Lucknow Super Giants. The officials of the team named the team on Saturday ahead of the mega auction. The announcement was made by Sanjiv Goenka on social media on Monday.
The franchise of the team was purchased by the Sanjiv Goenka-owned RPSG group for an amount of Rs 7090 Crore and Ahmedabad was bought by the Irelia Company Pte Ltd. (CVC Capital Partners) for Rs 5635 Crore.
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The new IPL teams from Lucknow and Ahmedabad had already announced their coaching staff, captains and the three new signings.
On January 21, the Lucknow franchise signed KL Rahul for Rs 17 crore, Australia all-rounder Marcus Stoinis for Rs 9.2 crore and uncapped leg spinner Ravi Bishnoi for Rs 4 crore.
Ahmedabad picked all-rounder Hardik Pandya and Afghanistan star spinner Rashid Khan for Rs 15 crore each while shelling out Rs 7 crore for stylish young batter Shubman Gill.
