{"id":22940,"date":"2025-12-18T18:00:42","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T12:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=672670"},"modified":"2025-12-18T06:30:23","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T01:00:23","slug":"lsg-ipl-2026-probable-playing-xi-full-squad-biggest-buys-squad-composition-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/ipl\/lsg-ipl-2026-probable-playing-xi-full-squad-biggest-buys-squad-composition-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"LSG IPL 2026: Probable playing XI, full squad, biggest buys, squad composition and more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) added a mix of overseas firepower and Indian depth during the <strong>IPL 2026 auction in Abu Dhabi<\/strong>, focusing on strengthening their bowling attack and middle-order options ahead of the new season.<\/p>\n<p>The franchise\u2019s standout move came in the form of <strong>Josh Inglis<\/strong>, with LSG spending <strong>Rs 8.6 crore<\/strong> on the Australian wicketkeeper-batter after a bidding war with Sunrisers Hyderabad. The team also quietly snapped up <strong>Anrich Nortje<\/strong> and <strong>Wanindu Hasaranga<\/strong> at their base prices, significantly bolstering both pace and spin departments.<\/p>\n<h3>LSG IPL 2026 squad composition<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Wicketkeepers:<\/strong><br \/>\nRishabh Pant, Nicholas Pooran, Josh Inglis, Mukul Choudhary<\/p>\n<p><strong>Batters:<\/strong><br \/>\nAbdul Samad, Matthew Breetzke, Himmat Singh, Akshat Raghuwanshi<\/p>\n<p><strong>All-rounders:<\/strong><br \/>\nAyush Badoni, Aiden Markram, Mitchell Marsh, Shahbaz Ahmed, Arshin Kulkarni, Arjun Tendulkar, Wanindu Hasaranga<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fast bowlers:<\/strong><br \/>\nMayank Yadav, Avesh Khan, Mohsin Khan, Prince Yadav, Akash Singh, Mohammed Shami, Naman Tiwari, Anrich Nortje<\/p>\n<p><strong>Spinners:<\/strong><br \/>\nDigvesh Rathi, Manimaran Siddharth<\/p>\n<h3>LSG probable playing XII for IPL 2026<\/h3>\n<p>Mitchell Marsh, Nicholas Pooran, Josh Inglis, Rishabh Pant (c), Ayush Badoni, Abdul Samad, Shahbaz Ahmed, Mohammed Shami, Digvesh Rathi, Mayank Yadav, Avesh Khan<br \/>\n<strong>Impact Player:<\/strong> Anrich Nortje<\/p>\n<h3>LSG IPL 2026 full squad<\/h3>\n<p>Abdul Samad, Ayush Badoni, Aiden Markram, Matthew Breetzke, Himmat Singh, Rishabh Pant, Nicholas Pooran, Mitchell Marsh, Shahbaz Ahmed, Arshin Kulkarni, Mayank Yadav, Avesh Khan, Mohsin Khan, Manimaran Siddharth, Digvesh Rathi, Prince Yadav, Akash Singh, Mohammed Shami, Arjun Tendulkar, Josh Inglis, Mukul Choudhary, Akshat Raghuwanshi, Anrich Nortje, Wanindu Hasaranga, Naman Tiwari.<\/p>\n<p>With a strong core already in place and the addition of proven international match-winners, LSG head into IPL 2026 with a well-rounded squad capable of challenging across conditions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) added a mix of overseas firepower and Indian depth during the IPL 2026 auction in Abu\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":31448,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ipl"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}