IPL 2023: Predicting where each team will end up on the points table

3. Lucknow Super Giants

Lucknow Super Giants played an exciting brand of cricket in IPL 2022 and reached the knockout stages of the T20 carnival. Under the leadership of KL Rahul, they have a power-packed squad and could finish in the top half of the table in the coming season as well.

The Lucknow franchise has the likes of Rahul, Quinton de Kock, and Deepak Hooda at the top of the order. The trio fared well for the franchise in the previous edition and could again light up the upcoming season of the T20 extravaganza with its batting exploits. Further, LSG have Nicholas Pooran, a marauder with the bat who has shown his batting might in the IPL arena in the past.

Also, Lucknow have a great depth of multifaceted players in their ranks in the presence of Marcus Stoinis, Kyle Mayers, Daniel Sams, Krunal Pandya, and Romario Shepherd in the team. Coming to the bowling front, LSG will have the services of Mark Wood, who missed the last IPL edition due to an elbow injury, and it makes their bowling line-up more rounded. 

Moshin Khan, LSG’s shining star in IPL 2022, might miss the coming edition due to injury, but LSG has the in-form Jaydev Unadkat to bring variety to the pace attack.