Will Rahul be among LSG's retained players? Does he not want to stay with the team? Will they keep him but not make him captain? These were some of the questions raised ever since LSG finished seventh in IPL 2024, after making the playoffs in their first two seasons.

Rahul is LSG's top-scorer across three seasons. He was the second highest run-scorer in IPL 2022 with 616 runs, before missing the second half of the 2023 season with an injury, but was once again LSG's top-scorer in 2024 with 520 runs. However, while the volume of Rahul's runs has always been high, his strike rate - which was 136.12 in IPL 2024 - has often come under scrutiny, especially as the league has seen much higher scoring rates in the last two seasons.

It is understood that during a meeting with LSG's owners recently Rahul had not committed to accepting if a retention offer was made. ESPNcricinfo has learned that a final decision will be taken in a few days.