Nicholas Pooran To Be Retained For WHOPPING Rs 18 Crore By LSG For IPL 2025 | Report

Nicholas Pooran is reportedly set to be retained by Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) for Rs 18 crores for the IPL 2025 season.

Nicholas Pooran is reportedly slated to be LSG’s primary retention ahead of the IPL 2-25 mega auction.

Source : PTI

West Indies hard-hitting batter Nicholas Pooran is reportedly all but confirmed to be paid Rs 18 crores by Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) and will don their jersey for the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025 season. As per a Cricbuzz report, 29-years old Pooran secured a Rs 18 crore deal after meeting LSG owner Sanjiv Goenka in Kolkata on October 29 (Tuesday).

With the deadline for the IPL teams to submit their retention list ahead of the IPL 2025 mega auction set for October 31, Pooran is slated to be LSG’s primary retention according to the report.

“Cricbuzz can confirm that Pooran (29) was in the Kolkata office of the RPSG group on Tuesday to meet owner Sanjiv Goenka. He signed on the dotted lines to represent Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) in the coming seasons. The West Indian may now have become the first formal signing of the Indian Premier League (IPL) season 2025,” says the report.

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“He will be the franchise's primary retention, commanding a price of Rs 18 crore, the price slab prescribed by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), for the No. 1 retention. Although the franchise can pay more or less, it has been learnt he will have a salary of Rs 18 crore,” the report adds further.

Pooran’s previous auction price was Rs 16 crore, secured by LSG in the 2023 auction after he was released by Sunrisers Hyderabad. Although LSG finished seventh in the points table, Pooran was their standout player in the IPL 2024 season, scoring 499 runs with three fifties, 35 fours and 36 sixes. 

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