Former India player Aakash Chopra has opined on LSG’s poor run in IPL 2025 and their formula of playing with four overseas batters and an all-Indian bowling attack as well. He also added that they didn’t have even a single bowler who has been playing T20I cricket regularly for India as well. With 12 points from 14 games, LSG finished seventh on the points table this season as well.
In a video shared on his YouTube channel ‘Aakash Chopra,’ he said, “The formula they had hasn’t worked, and they will have to pivot away slightly from that formula. The formula was to have all overseas players in the batting order, and an entire made-in-India bowling attack. There wasn’t even one guy who is playing top-flight T20 cricket for India and was in your team. If that had been the case, you would still feel that they would be able to manage. You made an entire made-in-India bowling attack, in which there wasn’t even one reliable big name, and they had to pay for it.”
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“If you have an entire made-in-India bowling, you should have two or at least one of Mohammed Siraj, Mohammad Shami, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Prasidh Krishna, Jasprit Bumrah, Arshdeep Singh, Yuzvendra Chahal, Kuldeep Yadav, Axar Patel, Varun Chakaravarthy and Harshit Rana. Someone should have been there,” he again shared.
However, Aakash Chopra also praised the performance of some of the LSG’s low-priced players and called them as their positives from this season as well.
“The excellent part of their auction was that the low-priced buys like Mitchell Marsh and Aiden Markram did an excellent job. Digvesh Rathi was the find of the season, and Ayush Badoni was a good retention. What do they need? They need a few overseas fast bowlers. They will need a lower-order batter. It can be an Indian. They will have to improve their bowling because they will be able to manage in batting. The top four will be able to manage. They will have to revamp and reboot their bowling attack,” Aakash Chopra concluded.
