Lucknow IPL Picks up Rahul, Stoinis and Bishnoi

Lucknow IPL picks: Rahul also set to be captain of Lucknow IPL – The new franchise of IPL 2022. Lucknow IPL Picks up Rahul, Stoinis and Bishnoi. KL Rahul is one of the three players to be picked by the yet-to-be-named Lucknow franchise and will also lead the team in the upcoming season of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2022. The other two are likely to be Australian all-rounder Marcus Stoinis and uncapped leg spinner Ravi Bishnoi. “Rahul will captain Lucknow.

KL Rahul, who will lead India in the ODI series in South Africa, is one of the three players who have been picked up by the Lucknow IPL franchise. Australian allrounder Marcus Stoinis and uncapped Indian legspinner Ravi Bishnoi are the other two.

ESPNcricinfo understands that the Lucknow franchise will go into the February auction with a purse of INR 60 crore – Rahul cost them INR 15 crore, Stoinis INR 11 crore, and Bishnoi INR 4 crore. It is learned that Rahul will also captain the franchise.

ESPNcricinfo has learned that KL Rahul, Marcus Stoinis and Ravi Bishnoi have been picked up by the Lucknow IPL franchise

It is also believed that KL Rahul will captain the team ⤵ #IPL2022

— ESPNcricinfo (@ESPNcricinfo) January 18, 2022

Lucknow will be his fourth IPL franchise for Stoinis. He had started in 2015 with Delhi Daredevils (now Delhi Capitals), where he returned in 2020 after being bought for INR 4.8 crore. In the 27 matches he has played for the Capitals, 32-year-old Stoinis scored 441 runs at a strike rate of 142.71 and picked 15 wickets. In between, he had also turned out for Punjab and Royal Challengers.

The other new IPL franchise, based in Ahmedabad, named their three players of choice yesterday, picking up Hardik Pandya, Rashid Khan and Shubman Gill.

The Trio in Lucknow Rahul, Stoinis and Bishnoi will help the team to form a better start from IPL 2022 as a franchise.