Lucknow Super Giants IPL Stats 2026: Records, Squad & Big Failures

By Avasar Maru · Published 29 May 2026 · Updated 29 May 2026

Lucknow Super Giants arrived in IPL 2022 as a ₹7,090-crore franchise with big ambitions — and delivered two back-to-back playoff runs before hitting a wall. Three consecutive seasons without a finals appearance, including a last-place finish in IPL 2026, tell a cautionary tale about batting depth without bowling to match. Here’s the complete record: every season, every top performer, every record the franchise owns.

From Debut Darlings to Mid-Table Reality — LSG’s IPL Story

Few franchises have had a more dramatic arc than the Super Giants. Bought for a then-record ₹7,090 crore (approximately US$940 million) by the RP Sanjiv Goenka Group — the same ownership that ran Rising Pune Supergiant in 2016–17 — LSG burst onto the IPL scene in 2022 with a squad built around KL Rahul’s composure and an aggressive overseas core of Marcus Stoinis, Quinton de Kock, and Jason Holder.

Andy Flower took charge as head coach with Gautam Gambhir as mentor. Under Rahul’s calm leadership, LSG won nine of 14 league matches in 2022, finishing fourth and qualifying for the playoffs in their debut season — a feat only Gujarat Titans matched that year. The Eliminator, though, tripped them up: Rajat Patidar’s unforgettable century for RCB ended their run by 14 runs.

The 2023 campaign was eerily similar. Eight wins, another fourth-place finish, another Eliminator exit — this time to Mumbai Indians by 81 runs despite LSG posting 212/4 on their Ekana home ground. By that point the franchise had earned a reputation as excellent league-stage performers who couldn’t cross the playoff line when it mattered. What nobody anticipated was how sharply the next two years would decline.

After releasing Rahul ahead of 2025 and handing the captaincy to Rishabh Pant — signed for a record ₹27 crore at auction — LSG missed the playoffs in both 2024 and 2025, finishing seventh each time. In IPL 2026, with Josh Inglis (266 runs in 5 matches at a strike rate of 186.01) and Aiden Markram providing batting firepower, the team still managed only four wins in 14 matches, ending the league stage bottom of the table with eight points and an NRR of -0.740. They were the first franchise officially eliminated from the 2026 playoff race after their loss to CSK on May 10.

As of May 2026, LSG remain the only active IPL team never to have reached a final — a fact that haunts every auction and every pre-season media day.

Lucknow Super Giants — Season-by-Season Record

Their Best Season — IPL 2022: Nine Wins on Debut

LSG’s inaugural campaign remains their high-water mark by win percentage. Nine victories from 14 league matches — a 64.28% win rate — put them ahead of established franchises in their very first season. The combination of Rahul’s anchoring at the top and Quinton de Kock’s explosiveness made them the most complete batting unit in Lucknow. The pair put on a 210-run opening stand against Gujarat Titans on April 19, 2022, which stands as LSG’s highest partnership in IPL history.

Avesh Khan, signed for ₹10 crore as an uncapped player — a record at the time — delivered 18 wickets to anchor the bowling. Mohsin Khan’s left-arm swing added variety, and Marcus Stoinis proved a genuine match-winner in the death overs with both bat and ball. The Eliminator loss to RCB felt unlucky: Rajat Patidar’s 112* on a flat Kolkata pitch was simply an exceptional innings on the night.

LSG IPL 2026 Squad

Rishabh Pant captains LSG into their fifth season with Justin Langer remaining as head coach. The squad retained its batting-heavy identity with Josh Inglis (₹8.60 crore) added as a third elite wicket-keeper-batter option alongside Pant and Nicholas Pooran. Aiden Markram and Abdul Samad provide middle-order depth, while Ayush Badoni emerged as a genuine finisher after his 2025 performances. On the bowling front, Mohsin Khan’s swing, Akash Singh’s left-arm pace, and Digvesh Singh’s leg-spin form the core attack, with Mohammed Shami and Arjun Tendulkar added via trades ahead of the season. The batting depth — Pant, Inglis, Pooran, Markram, Badoni, Samad — is arguably IPL’s best. The bowling, once again, proved the ceiling.

Check the IPL 2026 points table for the final league-stage standings across all ten teams.

All-Time Top Performers for LSG

Individual Records — LSG’s Roll of Honour

KL Rahul is the franchise’s undisputed batting king. He scored 616 runs at an average of 51.33 in 2022 — the highest individual season tally for LSG — and his unbeaten 103 against Mumbai Indians on April 16, 2022, at Wankhede remains the franchise’s highest individual score as a captain. His overall total of 1,410-plus runs across 38 matches for LSG makes him their all-time leading batter by a distance.

Ravi Bishnoi is their all-time wicket-taking leader with 29-plus scalps, his best spell being 3/28 in the 2023 Eliminator against Mumbai Indians at Lucknow. He’s also the franchise’s only bowler to have featured consistently across multiple playoff-era seasons without missing a significant chunk through injury. On the batting front, Quinton de Kock scored 901 runs for LSG across his two seasons at 143.24 strike rate, including a stunning 140* that stands as the highest score by any LSG batter.

The highest team total in franchise history is 257/5, posted against Punjab Kings on April 28, 2023. Marcus Stoinis top-scored with 72 off 40 balls, with Kyle Mayers, Ayush Badoni, and Nicholas Pooran all cracking cameos in an LSG batting showcase that produced the second-highest IPL total at the time. They won that match by 56 runs.

For the franchise’s bowling peak, look to May 7, 2022: chasing LSG’s 176, KKR were bowled out for 101 in 15 overs — a 75-run win — with Avesh Khan taking 3/19, Mohsin Khan claiming 1/6, and Dushmantha Chameera picking up 1/14 in a collective fast-bowling clinic.

My Take — Is LSG’s Model Broken?

Avasar Maru · IPL Daily

The easy take on LSG is that they’re a well-funded franchise that can’t convert. The harder truth is structural: the franchise has repeatedly built squads in which their best eleven contains three world-class wicket-keepers (Pant, Pooran, Inglis in 2026) but no fast bowler who genuinely scares top-order batters across 20 overs. When you watch LSG lose, the pattern is consistent — they post 180-195, then their bowlers can’t defend it in the death because no single seamer takes the game by the scruff.

The fix isn’t another auction record. It’s selecting a lean core with one elite pace enforcer at the top — someone who earns an over 18–20. Until LSG back that up with a genuinely complete bowling unit rather than a revolving cast of serviceable seamers, the batting depth will keep producing impressive scorecards in losing causes. The 2026 season — four wins, bottom of the table, first out — is the harshest verdict yet. Change is coming to Ekana. It needs to start at the bowling end.

Home Ground — BRSABV Ekana Cricket Stadium

LSG’s home, the Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ekana Cricket Stadium in Lucknow, holds just over 50,000 spectators and has developed a reputation as a batting-friendly surface with relatively true bounce. The first innings average at Ekana in IPL matches typically sits around 175–185. Dew becomes a significant factor in evening matches — teams winning the toss and bowling first have historically held an advantage in the back half of the season when Lucknow’s humidity peaks. For full venue data ahead of any LSG home fixture, the pitch report hub has you covered.

LSG drew an average home attendance of 47,795 per match in IPL 2024 — one of the highest crowd figures in the tournament — reflecting the franchise’s grip on Uttar Pradesh’s cricket appetite even through their declining form.

The 2026 Season — What Went Wrong

LSG were officially the first team eliminated from IPL 2026 playoffs contention after their loss to CSK on May 10 at the MA Chidambaram Stadium, with Mumbai Indians following them out the same evening. The numbers across the season tell a grim story: four wins from 14 games, an NRR of -0.740, and a final position of tenth — last among all ten franchises.

Yet individual performers were not to blame. Josh Inglis was electrifying in his five available matches — 266 runs at a strike rate of 186.01 — and Rishabh Pant led all LSG scorers with 312 runs across 14 appearances. Nicholas Pooran added 234. The batting collectively scored 2,511 runs for the season, hit 127 sixes, and posted 10 half-centuries. The bowling took 71 wickets across 14 games. The gap between those two returns — in runs conceded vs runs scored — tells you exactly where the season was lost: their bowlers consistently gave away more than the batters could set up.

Mohsin Khan’s best bowling figures for LSG in 2026 were 5/23 — the team’s best-bowling performance of the year — but those moments of brilliance were too sporadic to change the season’s direction. The IPL 2026 purple cap standings reflect how LSG bowlers finished outside the top-ten wicket-takers for the season.