Lucknow IPL Team Title Sponsor: Fantasy platform My11Circle signs a three-year deal with the Lucknow IPL team to be their title sponsor.  In this three-year deal, the logo of ‘My11Circle’ will be seen on the jersey of the Lucknow team.
As per the BCCI’s rules for IPL 2022 Auction, Lucknow can pick a maximum of 3 players from the Auction pool players before the IPL 2022 Mega Auction.
Lucknow IPL Team Title Sponsor
RPSG Group of Sanjiv Goenka is the owner of the Lucknow-based IPL team. RPSG Group is one of the winners of the 2 IPL new team auctions which was hosted by BCCI in Dubai on October 25, 2021.
I am told it is one of the biggest @IPL sponsorship deals as @TeamLucknowIPL gets on board @My11Circle as their title sponsor for a period of 3 years! Shows the power of the @IPL brand as well. @rpsggroup
I am told it is one of the biggest @IPL sponsorship deals as @TeamLucknowIPL gets on board @My11Circle as their title sponsor for a period of 3 years! Shows the power of the @IPL brand as well. @rpsggroup
— Boria Majumdar (@BoriaMajumdar) January 6, 2022
RPSG Group of Sanjiv Goenka won the bid war for a whopping 7090 crore (over 932 million USD). The RPSG bid was 250% more than BCCI’s base price of INR 2000 Crores for the IPL team.
Notably, Goenka Group has bid the highest at 7,000cr in the IPL 2022 new team auction.
| Team | Owner | Price |
| Lucknow | RPSG Group of Sanjiv Goenka |
7090Â crore (over 932 million USD)
|
| Ahmedabad | CVC Capital |
5625 crores crore (over 692 million USD)
|
Lucknow IPL Team 2022 Coach
The Lucknow team ropes former Zimbabwean cricket coach and former cricketer Andy Flower to be their head coach for the IPL 2022 season.
| Role | Name | Country |
| Head Coach | Andy Flower | Zimbabwe |
| Assistant coach | Vijay Dahiya | India |
| Mentor | Gautam Gambhir | India |
Who is Sanjiv Goenka?
RP – Sanjiv Goenka Group with a US $6 billion asset base and US $4 billion revenue is one of India’s fastest-growing conglomerates with a significant global presence.
The Group’s businesses include power and energy, carbon black manufacturing, retail, IT-enabled services, FMCG, media and entertainment, and agriculture.
The group has a revenue of ₹26,900 crores (US$3.6 billion) in 2020 with a total assets value of ₹47,405 crores (US$6.3 billion). The Group has over 50,000 employees and over a hundred thousand shareholders.
Sanjiv Goenka was a former President of the Confederation of Indian Industries (CII) as well as the All India Management Institute (AIMA), and a member of the Prime Minister’s Council on Trade & Industry.
He is also the current Chairman of the Board of Directors of Woodlands Medical Centre Ltd, Kolkata. Born in 1961, Sanjiv Goenka is currently the Honorary Consul of Canada in Kolkata.
In April 2001, he took over as the youngest-ever President of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), was appointed Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur (IIT-KGP), and currently serves on the board of the Indian Institute of Management, Kolkata (IIM-Kolkata).
