Former India cricketer turned veteran commentator Aakash Chopra lauded the Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) for their performance in the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2022 auction. In their first ever mega auction, LSG built a good team with captain KL Rahul, Australian all-rounder Marcus Stoinis and uncapped Indian leg-spinner Ravi Bishnoi. They bought 21 players out of the potential 25 members they could have in their team as well.

Taking to Twitter to share a video to rate LSG’s performance at the IPL 2022 auction, Chopra shared: “It’s their first ever auction, but @LucknowIPL have aced it in my opinion.”

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He further added: “It is said that forming a team in your first auction is very difficult because you have to start from the scratch and there is nothing that you can look back to. There are some franchises who can look back at the decisions that worked for them and there are some who learn from the mistakes and opt for a clean slate. Keeping that in mind, I think Lucknow Super Giants (in their first auction) did a phenomenal job. For me they are 9 on 10.”

The Super Giants have assembled. 🤩🤩
Lucknow, how's our squad looking? 💪#TATAIPLAuction #IPLAuction #LucknowSuperGiants pic.twitter.com/41aHZ1wokj

— Lucknow Super Giants (@LucknowIPL) February 13, 2022

Aakash Chopra again said that LSG have a lot of options as all-rounders.

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“Does any team have more all-rounders than them? There are multifaceted players from 1 to 11, or that’s what it seems like. Almost all key players can contribute with bat and ball and can be rotated in the batting order. That gives them a lot of depth in batting and the bowling attack also has a lot of variety,” Aakash Chopra concluded.