After Gambhir, these giants also left Lucknow team (photo-PTI)
Zaheer Khan: Legendary player Zaheer Khan has broken his ties with IPL team Lucknow Super GIANTS. Zaheer left this team on Thursday. Zaheer could last only one year in this team. The question is that what was the reason that Mentor Zaheer Khan left this team. According to reports, the most important reason for Zaheer Khan’s resignation was not to get his view from Head Coach Justin Langer and Team owner Sanjeev Goenka. Zaheer Khan did not understand the system of Lucknow Super Giants and that is why he has opted out of this team.
After Gambhir, Zaheer also separated from Lucknow
Zaheer joined Lucknow Super Giants in August 2024. Gautam Gambhir in place after IPL 2023 Zaheer Khan Had taken only Gambhir played the role of Mentor in Kolkata Knight Riders for IPL 2024 and after that he became the head coach of the Indian cricket team. Talking about Zaheer, he has worked with a champion team like Mumbai Indians. He was with Mumbai Indians from 2018 to 2022. After this, he did a two -year contract with Lucknow Supergiants, but his journey ended in a single year.
Lucknow failed from two seasons
In its first two years of IPL, in 2022 and 2023, Lucknow team reached the playoffs but in 2024 and 2025, the team was ruled out of the league stage. In 2025, these teams won only 6 out of 14 matches and their position was 7. Zaheer Khan had taken some steps for the success of Lucknow, which surprised everyone but he was also successful. He also got an opening with Rishabh Pant. Mitchell Marsh and Aiden Markram were also launched on opening and both performed very well. Marsh was the fifth highest run -scorer scoring 627 runs at a strike rate of 163.70. Markram scored 445 runs at a strike rate of 148.82. Despite this, this team proved to be a failure in 2025. Now it will be interesting to see which team Zaheer Khan joins.