KL Rahul's Possible Decision to Step Down as LSG Captain Ahead of IPL 2025: Insights from Lengthy Discussion with Sanjiv Goenka

New Delhi: KL Rahul has conveyed his wish to continue playing for the Lucknow Super Giants in the upcoming IPL 2025 season, as reported by IANS. Rahul took the initiative to visit LSG owner Sanjiv Goenka at his office in Alipore, Kolkata, where he discussed the possibility of relinquishing his captaincy role and focusing more on his batting contributions.

According to sources close to LSG, Rahul is likely to be retained but the captaincy role remains uncertain as the franchise have a couple of options with Krunal Pandya and Nicholas Pooran being the two big names to fill in Rahul’s shoes. “The meeting was official with the CEO Sanjiv Goenka on Monday, the captaincy and retention topics were discussed.

“However, Rahul is unlikely to captain the side in the upcoming edition as he wants to explore himself more as a batter. Goenka has full confidence in Rahul and he will be retained as a player, but will not be seen captaining the side,” sources close to the LSG told IANS.

“We are still exploring the captaincy option but with BCCI agreeing on player retention conditions we have two players (Krunal Pandya and Nicholas Pooran) in race,” he added. Following a long chat with Goenka for about four hours, Rahul left for Bengaluru where he will start his Duleep Trophy training at the National Cricket Academy.

Rahul will be playing under Shubman Gill in Team A.