Former India player Aakash Chopra has said that injury concerns as the LSG’s biggest challenge in IPL 2025. He added that Mitchell Marsh will not bowl this season as well. LSG acquired Marsh for ₹3.40 crore at the IPL 2025 auction but he missed the recently concluded 2025 Champions Trophy due to a back injury and will only play as a pure batter in the IPL 2025 as well.

In a video shared on his YouTube channel ‘Aakash Chopra’, he said, “The first and biggest challenge is injury concerns. Mitchell Marsh is not available as a bowler. You want to play Mitchell Marsh because he does two jobs. Considering the sort of pitch in Lucknow, red soil with a little grass, his bowling would also have worked decently. Then he becomes like a match-winner, but he won’t bowl now. After that, the injury concerns are not with him only. Avesh Khan, Mayank Yadav and Mohsin Khan are injured. If so many people are injured, and in case you have to play Akash Deep, Akash Singh and Shamar Joseph, the combination will totally change then. The injuries are already coming to the fore as a big challenge.”

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However, Aakash Chopra also said that the lack of potent spinners, apart from Ravi Bishnoi, and the inexperienced Indian seam attack is their other potential challenges in IPL 2025 as well.

“When I look at spin, Ravi Bishnoi is your only attacking wicket-taking spinner. Shahbaz Ahmed is okay. Then the Indian fast-bowling attack, which is promising, but extremely inexperienced. If the entire bowling attack is Indian, it sounds great, but we will get to know how effective it would be only after the season starts. This team can do well at home with this bowling attack, but when they travel, and play on extremely flat pitches, I don’t know, because we haven’t seen it thus far. This team could be seen slightly troubled in away games from their bowling department point of view,” Aakash Chopra concluded.