LSG Sign William O'Rourke As Replacement Of Injured Mayank Yadav

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Last Updated:May 15, 2025, 20:57 IST

According to a merchandise shared by IPL, Yadav sustained a backmost wounded and is ruled retired for the remainder of the season.

William O'Rourke replaces Mayank Yadav successful LSG squad. (Picture Credit: PTI)

New Zealand accelerated bowler William O’Rourke connected Thursday (May 15) replaced Mayank Yadav successful the Lucknow Super Giants squad for the remainder of the IPL 2025 season.

According to a merchandise shared by IPL, “Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) person roped successful New Zealand pacer William O’Rourke arsenic an wounded replacement for Mayank Yadav. Yadav sustained a backmost wounded and is ruled retired for the remainder of the season. William O’Rourke volition beryllium his replacement astatine a reserve terms of INR 3 crore."

Mayank was retained by LSG for Rs 11 crore up of the IPL 2025 mega auction. But the 22-year-old accelerated bowler from Delhi could lone diagnostic successful 2 matches for the Rishabh Pant-led side. He kicked disconnected his IPL 2025 with figures of 2 for 40 successful 4 overs against the Mumbai Indians connected April 27 astatine Wankhede Stadium successful Mumbai, and successful the team’s adjacent match, played against the Punjab Kings astatine HPCA Stadium successful Dharamsala, helium conceded 60 runs successful his quota of 4 overs.

O’Rourke is 1 of the astir promising talents from New Zealand. The 23-year-old pacer has ne'er played successful the IPL before. He made headlines for his ace amusement successful the shot successful the two-match Test bid against Sri Lanka and the three-match Test bid against India past year.

He besides played a large relation successful New Zealand’s tally to the Champions Trophy 2025 last successful February-March 2025 nether Mitchell Santner’s leadership.

LSG live successful playoffs race

Rishabh Pant-led broadside Lucknow Super Giants are live successful the IPL 2025 playoffs. The Lucknow-based franchise has 10 points from 11 matches played truthful far, but if they triumph their remaining 3 league matches against Sunrisers Hyderabad (May 19), Gujarat Titans (May 22) and Royal Challengers Bengaluru (May 27) by large margins and not much than 3 teams decorativeness with much than 16 points, past LSG volition decorativeness successful the apical 4 and diagnostic successful the IPL playoffs for the 3rd clip successful 4 seasons.

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