Kane Williamson joins Lucknow Super Giants as strategic advisor

New Zealand prima Kane Williamson has joined Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) arsenic a strategical advisor up of the 2026 Indian Premier League’s (IPL) season.

LSG proprietor Sanjiv Goenka confirmed Williamson’s assignment with a station connected X and wrote connected Thursday (October 16, 2025), “Kane has been a portion of the Super Giants family, and it’s an implicit delight to invited him successful his caller relation arsenic Strategic Advisor for @LucknowIPL. His leadership, strategical insight, heavy knowing of the game, and quality to animate players marque him an invaluable summation to the team.”

Williamson has been associated with the Super Giants franchise, peculiarly their Durban team, successful the SA20 league. The 35-year-old made his past quality for New Zealand during the Champions Trophy last successful March earlier this year.

He is yet to measurement distant from the planetary circuit and has opted for a casual declaration with New Zealand Cricket. Williamson volition miss New Zealand’s T20I location bid against England but is expected to instrumentality for the ODIs. The archetypal 50-over fixture is scheduled to instrumentality spot astatine his location municipality successful Tauranga connected October 26.

Williamson, a seasoned of the IPL, has hardly made an on-field beingness successful the past 3 seasons. In IPL 2023, Williamson was picked by the Gujarat Titans (GT) and sustained a genu wounded successful their archetypal crippled of the play and played nary further portion successful the cash-rich tournament.

He stayed with Gujarat successful IPL 2024 and played conscionable 2 games, amassing 27 runs successful 27 balls. In 2025, helium was incapable to find a purchaser for himself successful the mega auction. His latest quality dates backmost to The Hundred successful England. He hammered 204 runs successful 8 innings astatine a onslaught complaint of 129.93 for London Spirit, who finished astatine No. 7 connected the eight-team table.

Williamson doesn’t person managerial acquisition and has not been portion of the team’s enactment staff. Despite his decreasing fig of appearances, Williamson remains a reputed fig globally. He captained New Zealand to the 2019 ODI World Cup last and secured the inaugural World Test Championship 2 years later.

He volition articulation LSG, who are led by Rishabh Pant and coached by Justin Langer. The Super Giants struggled successful the past play and wrapped up their run successful the seventh position, the aforesaid arsenic successful IPL 2024.