Lucknow Gets Own IPL Team: All You Need To Know About Sanjiv Goenka's Lucknow IPL Team

On 25 October BCCI Board of Control for Cricket in India made the announcement for the two newly formed franchises of IPL. Sanjiv Goenka, the owner of RPSG Group won the bidding for a new franchise at the highest bid of 7090 crores and chose the Lucknow team as its own team becoming the owner of the Lucknow IPL team.

The second-highest bid of 5625 crores of owning the Ahmedabad team was won by CVC Capital, former owners of Formula One. The upcoming season of IPL i.e. IPL 2022 will be having a total of 10 teams and 74 matches on the basis of a newly formed team of Lucknow and Ahmedabad on Monday.

Sanjiv Goenka expressed his happiness of having the new Lucknow Team in the next Indian Premier League (IPL) and said that Uttar Pradesh had been dreaming of getting its own team for a long. He is delightful but stressed at the same time about the fact that the Board of Control for Cricket in India has not yet made the official announcement of retention of certain rules.

Sanjiv Goenka on Monday also said that the resources will be made available by the new IPL franchise willingly on the matter of the availability of players for the premier T20 tournament, 2022. RPSG Group is also the owner of the Indian Super League franchise ATK Mohun Bagan. Lucknow stadium is considered as the best regarding the seating capacity of the stadium and other facilities associated with it.

Sanjiv Goenka is a renowned personality who is the Chairman and founder of RP- Sanjiv Goenka Group and leads one of the leading business conglomerates in India. He is also the Chairperson of BDFSL, the Board of Directors of Firstsource Solutions Limited as well as Chairman of CESC Limited. Goenka was also the former President of AIMA, the All India Management Institute and CII, Confederation of Indian Industries. He was even a member of the Prime Minister's Council on Trade & Industry. He chairs the boards of numerous companies like Spencer's Retail Limited and Phillips Carbon Black Limited.

The stadium called Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ekana Stadium of Lucknow is a multipurpose stadium known as one of the best stadiums in all over the world for its drainage system that is top-class and seating capacity with the availability of 55,000 seats. It is an international standard cricket stadium owned by Ekana Sportz City.

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