Indian Premier League’s new Lucknow-based franchise has announced their team name on Monday as Lucknow Super Giants. Chairman of RPSG group Sanjiv Goenka revealed the name on social media.
Notably the Lucknow franchise was bought by RP-Sanjiv Goenka group in IPL team auctions last year for an amount of Rs 7090 Crore. They organized a crowd-sourced contest with the name ‘Naam Banao, Naam Kamao’ to finalise the name of its team.
While revealing the team name, Goenka said in his message that, “Thank you so much for your overwhelming response to the ‘Naam banao naam kamao’ contest. Lakhs and lakhs of people responded, based on that we are very happy to choose the name for the Lucknow IPL team,” And the name that we have chosen based on your recommendations is Lucknow Super Giants. Thak you so much for your response and love and continue to give us your blessings in the future as well.”
Last week, Lucknow franchise had announced their three pre-auction picks with KL Rahul set to lead the team. Rahul, who captained Punjab Kings in the last two years will earn a massive salary of Rs. 17 Crore. Meanwhile, they also chose Australian all-rounder Marcus Stoinis as one of their new picks. And their third pick is uncapped Indian leg-spinner Ravi Bishnoi.