Lucknow Tremendous Giants (LSG) stunned followers on the Ekana Cricket Stadium in Lucknow on Saturday by naming Nicholas Pooran as their captain for the conflict towards Punjab Kings (PBKS) in IPL 2024. Common skipper KL Rahul was lacking from the captaincy position, with Pooran strolling out for the toss.
Why Nicholas Pooran is captaining LSG towards PBKS?
Pooran defined on the toss that the choice to step in as captain was attributable to Rahul managing his return from damage. Having missed the ultimate 4 Assessments of India’s dwelling sequence towards England attributable to a quadriceps situation, the staff administration opted to ease him again into motion. This isn’t Rahul’s first encounter with this damage, as he additionally missed a number of matches throughout IPL 2023 attributable to an analogous quadriceps damage that required surgical procedure.
Whereas relinquishing the captaincy for this match, Rahul nonetheless contributed on the sphere with the bat. He was used an ‘Impact Player,’ a brand new IPL rule permitting groups to introduce one substitute throughout a match. In Rahul’s absence throughout LSG’s bowling, wicketkeeping duties will probably fall to both Quinton de Kock or Pooran himself.
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Lucknow Tremendous Giants’ Taking part in XI and Influence substitutes
LSG (Taking part in XI): Quinton de Kock (wk), KL Rahul, Devdutt Padikkal, Ayush Badoni, Nicholas Pooran (c & wk), Marcus Stoinis, Krunal Pandya, Ravi Bishnoi, Mohsin Khan, Mayank Yadav, Manimaran Siddharth
LSG Subs: Ashton Turner, Naveen-ul-Haq, Amit Mishra, Deepak Hooda, Krishnappa Gowtham
Rahul had a powerful begin to the season
Regardless of lacking the captaincy position on this match, Rahul has proven good kind within the early levels of IPL 2024. He was the highest scorer for LSG of their season opener towards Rajasthan Royals (RR), contributing a priceless 58 runs off 44 balls, though they in the end fell quick by 20 runs.