Team India's star batsman KL Rahul is not having a good time inside or outside the field. Questions are constantly being raised on his selection in Team India. He failed in the first test match against New Zealand while he was dropped from the second test match. Apart from all this, there are continuous reports that IPL franchise Lucknow Super Giants will not retain him, of which he was the captain for 3 years. It is now considered almost certain that Rahul will enter the mega auction this time, but before that a report has claimed that even before the decision of the franchise, Rahul refused to make any commitment regarding retention from LSG management. Was.

It has been said in the report of ESPN-Cricinfo that Rahul's separation from LSG is now almost certain. In the same report, it has been told that some time ago Rahul had met franchise owner Sanjeev Goenka, in which retention was discussed. According to the report, during this meeting Rahul was asked whether he would accept it if it was decided to retain him, but the star batsman did not make any promise on this. That means Rahul had also indicated that he was ready to leave the franchise.

Rahul was the captain of the team since the debut season of Lucknow Super Giants in 2022. During this period, Lucknow had made it to the playoffs in the first and second seasons of the team but could not do so in the last season. However, during this period, Rahul's captaincy and especially his slow batting remained at the center of criticism. In the last season itself, after the team's crushing defeat, franchise owner Goenka had reprimanded Rahul in an open field, after which speculations about their separation had intensified. However, in August itself, Goenka and Rahul had a meeting in Kolkata.

Apart from all this, it is being told that the team's head coach Justin Langer and new mentor Zaheer Khan had recently prepared a report on Rahul's performance, in which his slow batting highlighted the impact on the team's performance in many matches. Had gone. On the basis of this report, talks of releasing Rahul from the franchise started coming to the fore. Looking at the performance of the last two seasons, it is clear that Lucknow's first retention will be West Indies star Nicholas Pooran. The last date for declaring retention is 31st October.