Former India player Aakash Chopra has attributed the Lucknow Super Giants’ (LSG) underwhelming run in IPL 2025 to their formula of playing with four overseas batters and an all-Indian bowling attack. He noted that they didn’t have even a single bowler who has been playing T20I cricket regularly for India.
With 12 points from 14 games, LSG finished seventh on the IPL 2025 points table. Although they won five of their first eight games, they lost five of their last six matches to bow out of the playoff race.
In a video shared on his YouTube channel ‘Aakash Chopra,’ the former India opener opined that LSG’s reliance on a relatively unreliable all-Indian bowling attack contributed to their indifferent run in IPL 2025.
Chopra named the Indian bowlers among whom at least one should have been part of LSG’s bowling attack.
With 14 scalps at an economy rate of 8.25 in 13 innings, Digvesh Rathi was LSG’s highest wicket-taker in IPL 2025. Avesh Khan and Shardul Thakur, who accounted for 13 dismissals apiece, were the franchise’s only other bowlers to take more than 10 wickets this season.
In the same video, Aakash Chopra picked the performance of some of the Lucknow Super Giants‘ low-priced players as their positive from IPL 2025.
To conclude, the cricketer-turned-commentator opined that LSG need to bolster their overseas seam-bowling department and lower-middle-order batting in next season’s auction.
Shamar Joseph, who was the only overseas seamer in LSG’s original IPL 2025 squad, didn’t get to play a game this season. Will O’Rourke, who came in as a replacement for Mayank Yadav, picked up six wickets in three games, but conceded an average of 12.77 runs per over.
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