New Delhi: Lucknow Tremendous Giants (LSG) are prone to half methods with mentor Zaheer Khan forward of the following Indian Premier League (IPL) season in 2026, TimesofIndia.com has learnt. “LSG is ready to half methods with Zaheer Khan and the brand new mentor might be given a much bigger function to watch RPSG Group’s different franchises,” a supply monitoring the event confirmed to TimesofIndia.com.Additionally it is learnt that LSG’s proprietor Sanjiv Goenka, who’s at present within the UK for The Hundred, will announce a Director of Cricket, who will oversee the year-round improvement of LSG’s different franchises — Durban’s Tremendous Giants within the SA20 and Manchester Originals in The Hundred.Zaheer had stepped into the mentor function as a alternative for Gautam Gambhir who stepped down after IPL 2023. The previous India seamer was additionally fulfilling the bowling coach duties since Morne Morkel’s exit, who left his function to work alongside Gambhir and the India males’s cricket crew.Between 2018 and 2022, Zaheer was related to the Mumbai Indians (MI) franchise, initially serving as Director of Cricket earlier than taking over the job of head of world improvement.
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Ought to LSG half methods with Zaheer Khan as their mentor?
A few weeks in the past, LSG had roped in Bharat Arun as their new bowling coach. “Arun’s function can also be in depth as he might be given an additional duty for scouting and dealing on their younger quicks for Durban’s Tremendous Giants and, from subsequent yr, with the Manchester Originals as properly,” the supply mentioned.Below Rishabh Pant’s management, LSG had a largely forgettable IPL 2025 season with flashes of brilliance however consistency being a problem. Work to arrest that problematic run has already begun with Bharat Arun first and Zaheer Khan now.“It is an honour to affix the Lucknow Tremendous Giants, a franchise that displays professionalism, ambition, and imaginative and prescient at each degree,” Arun mentioned in a press release. “My conversations with Dr. Sanjiv Goenka and the administration have been extremely energizing — there’s a clear intent to put money into younger Indian expertise and construct a long-term legacy.“What excites me most is the imaginative and prescient for long-term improvement. LSG has invested in a younger, proficient, and dynamic group of Indian quick bowlers — Akash Deep, Avesh Khan, Mayank Yadav, Prince Yadav, Mohsin Khan, and Akash Singh — and I see immense potential in every of them. My mission is to assist form them right into a cohesive, fearless, and tactically sharp tempo unit that may problem the perfect batting line-ups on the earth.“