After Sanjiv Goenka's Indian Premier League (IPL) team revealed its name on Monday evening, other IPL teams rolled out the red carpet to welcome the newcomer. Named "Lucknow Super Giants", this is Goenka’s second stint as an IPL boss. He owned the now-disbanded Rising Super Giants Pune.
Taking to Twitter, IPL teams welcomed Lucknow Super Giants warmly. While Delhi Capitals offered a "Giant hug", Chennai Super Kings played around with the word "Super" common in both the team names and commented, "'Super' Name Machi!"
Nawaabon ke sheher ko hamaara 'Giant' Hug#LucknowSuperGiants https://t.co/CBuS6eP3Te— Delhi Capitals (@DelhiCapitals) January 24, 2022
'Super' Name Machi! https://t.co/RoWqWWrTRJ— Chennai Super Kings - Mask Podu Whistle Podu! (@ChennaiIPL) January 25, 2022
Mumbai Indians too welcomed the new team into "one family". "A Super welcome to the family, Super Giants," the team tweeted.
Super Giants ला आमच्या पलटन कडून Super welcome! #OneFamily #MumbaiIndians https://t.co/Igb79aEmvs— Mumbai Indians (@mipaltan) January 24, 2022
Meanwhile, Kolkata Knight Riders did not refrain from pointing out how the "Super Giants" are back in the game. The team added that they were looking forward to "the fairytale clashes between the Knights and the Giants."
Super Giants back in the #IPL we see!Looking forward to some fairytale clashes between the Knights and Giants this year
Welcome, @TeamLucknowIPL! https://t.co/OzPqlhHBY0
— KolkataKnightRiders (@KKRiders) January 24, 2022
Rajasthan Royals too did not back away to point out the similarity in both the names.
Pun(e) intended https://t.co/0BSl8twqat pic.twitter.com/yqujgBr5cJ— Rajasthan Royals (@rajasthanroyals) January 24, 2022
The Lucknow Super Giants have already faced backlash on Twitter for its name as owner Sanjiv Goenka's first team was named Rising Pune Super Giants. It was part of IPL for two years and were runner-up in 2017.
The Pune-based franchise was bought into the fore, once Chennai Super Kings and Rajasthan Royals were barred from participating in the IPL. Subsequently, two new franchises, Rising Pune Super Giants and Gujarat Lions were given entry into the IPL but were disbanded once the old franchises returned.
The official IPL team of Lucknow, owned by RPSG Group, had asked fans for suggestions for the team's name, and had received an overwhelming response with more than 7,500 comments.
Lucknow Super Giants owner Sanjiv Goenka in a video message on Monday said, “Thank you so much for your overwhelming response to the ‘Naam banao naam kamao (make a name, earn a name)’ contest. Lakhs and lakhs of people responded, based on that we are very happy to choose the name for the Lucknow IPL team."
“And the name that we have chosen based on your recommendations is Lucknow Super Giants. Thank you so much for your response and love and continue to give us your blessings in the future as well."
The name reveal, however, left the fans disappointed because of its similarity to Rising Pune Super Giants.
All that drama to ask the fans to participate in the contest only to go back to the old name— Aditya (@Adityakrsaha) January 24, 2022
I spent half my working day. Learnt everything about RPSG businesses. Wrote 7 creative names, used email IDs of my entire family to submit them just to find out that this is your team name. Just Ctrl + C, Ctrl + V & edit. Itna low effort toh 2021 ki graduation batch bhi nahi thi— Sagar (@sagarcasm) January 24, 2022
Lucknow Super Giants has KL Rahul as their captain. He was signed by the franchise for a record Rs 17 crore. The while they also landed Australian all-rounder Marcus Stoinis and uncapped Indian young spinner Ravi Bishnoi for Rs 9.2 crore, and Rs 4 crore, respectively.
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