{"id":3206,"date":"2022-01-24T19:59:37","date_gmt":"2022-01-24T14:29:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=185174"},"modified":"2022-01-24T20:10:46","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T14:40:46","slug":"ipl-franchise-of-lucknow-unveil-its-name-and-identify","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/ipl-franchise-of-lucknow-unveil-its-name-and-identify\/","title":{"rendered":"IPL franchise of Lucknow unveil its name and identify"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lucknow Super Giants! IPL franchise of Lucknow owned by RPSG group finally reveals its identity and name on Monday through their official media handle.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">And here it is,<br \/>Our identity, <br \/>Our name\u2026. \ud83e\udd29\ud83d\ude4c<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NaamBanaoNaamKamao?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#NaamBanaoNaamKamao<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/LucknowSuperGiants?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#LucknowSuperGiants<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BCCI?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@BCCI<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IPL?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@IPL<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GautamGambhir?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@GautamGambhir<\/a> @klrahul11 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OVQaw39l3A\">pic.twitter.com\/OVQaw39l3A<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Lucknow Super Giants (@LucknowIPL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LucknowIPL\/status\/1485608265438605317?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 24, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Two new franchises were bought to add to the Indian Premier League (IPL) last year in October one based in Lucknow and the other is in Ahmedabad.<\/p>\n<p>Lucknow\u2019s IPL team (now known as the Lucknow Super Giants) is set to be captained by KL Rahul, which was declared by the owner of the team, Sanjiv Goenka. The player was bought to the team for 17 crore INR that recorded the joint highest fees paid in the Indian league to any player.<\/p>\n<p>Sanjiv Goenka announced the name based on the names provided by lakhs of fans. The owner in a video while revealing the name said, \u201cThank you so much for your overwhelming response to the \u2018naam banaao naam kamao contest\u2026.. And the name we have chosen on your recommendations is Lucknow Super Giants.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Team owner, Dr. Sanjiv Goenka, Chairman <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rpsggroup?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@rpsggroup<\/a> unveils the name for the Lucknow IPL team. \ud83d\ude0a\ud83d\udc4f\ud83c\udffc<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/LucknowSuperGiants?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#LucknowSuperGiants<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NaamBanaoNaamKamao?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#NaamBanaoNaamKamao<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/IPL2022?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#IPL2022<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IPL?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@IPL<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BCCI?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@BCCI<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GautamGambhir?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@GautamGambhir<\/a> @klrahul11 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TvGaZlIgFR\">pic.twitter.com\/TvGaZlIgFR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Lucknow Super Giants (@LucknowIPL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LucknowIPL\/status\/1485610655977984001?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 24, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The team was welcomed by other franchises. \u201cSuper Giants Super Welcome,\u201d tweeted Mumbai based IPL team Mumbai Indians.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"hi\" dir=\"ltr\">\u092e\u0941\u0902\u092c\u0908 \u0935\u093e\u0932\u094b, \u0926\u093f\u0932 \u0938\u0947 \u0927\u0928\u094d\u092f\u0935\u093e\u0926! \ud83d\ude4f\u263a\ufe0f<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/LucknowSuperGiants?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#LucknowSuperGiants<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vkAh5JW8Yq\">https:\/\/t.co\/vkAh5JW8Yq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Lucknow Super Giants (@LucknowIPL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LucknowIPL\/status\/1485621080975081472?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 24, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The franchise was owned by the Goenka-owned RPSG group for 7090 crores last year. Along with KL Rahul, the franchise also signed Marcus Stoinis (Australian all-rounder) and spinner Ravi Bishnoi. The league is scheduled to start from the last week of March and will run until May.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sanjiv Goenka, the owner of the Lucknow based IPL franchise announced the name based on the names provided by lakhs of fans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":169,"featured_media":26283,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[608,1174,2991],"class_list":["post-3206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-kl-rahul","tag-lucknow","tag-lucknow-super-giants"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3206","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\/169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}