If reviews are to be believed, Lucknow Tremendous Giants (LSG) need to bid farewell to their mentor Zaheer Khan forward of the 2026 version of the Indian Premier League (IPL). Zaheer changed Gautam Gambhir as LSG’s mentor and likewise took up the position of the crew’s bowling coach after Morne Morkel grew to become part of India’s help workers.
The Tremendous Giants made it to the playoffs in IPL 2022 and 2023. These have been their first two seasons within the league. Nonetheless, in IPL 2024 and 2025, LSG completed seventh within the standings.
Forward of this season, LSG acquired the providers of Rishabh Pant for a document INR 27 crore within the IPL 2025 mega-auction. The star wicketkeeper-batter changed KL Rahul because the captain of the facet. Nonetheless, fortunes did not change for the Lucknow-based franchise. They have been inconsistent in IPL 2025, finally ending the league with six wins and eight defeats from 14 matches.
“LSG is ready to half methods with Zaheer Khan, and the brand new mentor might be given an even bigger position to watch RPSG Group’s different franchises,” a supply monitoring the event confirmed to TimesofIndia.com.
The identical report states that LSG’s proprietor, Sanjiv Goenka, who’s at present in the UK for The Hundred, will announce a Director of Cricket, who will supervise the year-round growth of LSG’s different franchises — Durban Tremendous Giants within the SA20 and Manchester Originals in The Hundred.
From 2018 to 2022, Zaheer had been concerned with the Mumbai Indians (MI) franchise, initially serving as Director of Cricket earlier than taking over the place of head of worldwide growth. Throughout his tenure, Mumbai gained the title in 2019 and 2020 below Rohit Sharma’s captaincy.
Two weeks in the past, LSG introduced Bharat Arun on board as their new bowling coach. The 62-year-old has intensive expertise working as a bowling coach with the Indian crew earlier than becoming a member of the three-time champions Kolkata Knight Riders in the same position.
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