He is playing his first tournament since suffering serious injuries in a car accident in December 2022 that kept him out of last year's IPL as well as the 50-overs World Cup in India
Indian Premier League unveils Lucknow and Ahmedabad franchises
The Indian Premier League (IPL) on Monday unveiled two new teams for the Twenty20 competition, with the Lucknow and Ahmedabad franchises sold for a combined 127.15 billion Indian rupees ($1.7 billion).
Published : 25 Oct 2021, 03:59 PM
Updated : 25 Oct 2021, 03:59 PM
The RP-Sanjiv Goenka Group, which owned the now-defunct Pune franchise for two IPL campaigns, bid 70.9 billion Indian rupees for the Lucknow outfit while Irelia Company Pte Ltd. (CVC Capital Partners) bid a little over 56 billion Indian rupees for the Ahmedabad side.
Both teams will compete in the competition from the 2022 edition, which will have 10 teams and 74 matches, where each side will play seven home and seven away matches.
The league had approved a proposal in December to add two franchises to the world's richest Twenty20 competition, which has an estimated brand value of $6.8 billion.
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