Tom Moody is Lucknow Super Giant’s new global Director of Cricket and will perform the role that Zaheer Khan did with LSG in IPL 2025.
Tom Moody set to join Lucknow Super Giants as global director of cricket.
Tom Moody, a former all-rounder for Australia, will be appointed worldwide director of cricket by the Lucknow Super Giants (LSG). He will oversee LSG in the IPL, Durban’s Super Giants in SA20, and their Manchester-based team in the Hundred. He will collaborate with Kane Williamson, who was just named the strategic advisor, and his old Western Australia and Australia teammate Justin Langer, who is still head coach.
Having led franchise and international teams for more than 20 years, Moody, who turned 60 in October, is one of the most renowned coaches in the sport.
As head coach, Moody led the Oval Invincibles to the Hundred title for the third year in a row earlier this summer in England. In the ILT20, he also held a comparable role with Desert Vipers, where he had a good tenure and finished second in both 2023 and 2025.
Reliance Industries Limited (RIL), the Mumbai Indians’ owners who purchased a 49% share in the Invincibles earlier this year, and Surrey were reportedly eager to keep Moody. It is thought, though, that Moody chose to accept the LSG offer since it offered him a more significant job.
Moody’s hiring has not yet been made public by LSG, which is controlled by RP Sanjiv Goenka Group (RPSG). His contract’s duration could not be verified.
Moody will replace former India fast bowler Zaheer Khan at LSG in the 2025 Indian Premier League. Zaheer was hired by LSG for a two-year period, although the partnership only lasted one season until Zaheer left the team in September.
LSG did not make it to the knockout stages in the preceding two seasons, despite qualifying for the playoffs in their first two IPL seasons in 2022 and 2023. They have six victories out of fourteen games in 2025, placing them seventh. LSG won five of their first eight games but just one of their final six, making it a season of contrasting halves. Of the seven games they played at their home venue, the Ekana Stadium, they won only two.