Rishabh Pant: Garibly captaincy, out of 0, stumping miss … seven balls could not play 27 crores player

Last updated:March 25, 2025, 08:27 IST

LSG vs DC IPL 2025 Highlights: Delhi Capitals made history by achieving a target of 210 against Lucknow Supergiants. Lucknow lost due to poor captaincy and performance of Rishabh Pant. Pant made many mistakes in the match.

Lucknow Supergiants lost to Rishabh Pant’s poor performance

New Delhi: When Lucknow Supergiants set a target of 210 runs on the night of 24 March, Delhi Capitals had a history to achieve it. Before today, Delhi had never had such a big run chase in the IPL history. But Delhi made the impossible possible. Its big credit goes to former captain of the team Rishabh Pant.

Now you must be wondering how Rishabh Pant can win Delhi because he is now captaining his new franchise Lucknow Supergiants! Although Rishabh has left Delhi, but seeing his poor performance last night, the fans feel that he is still playing with the old team in the new jersey.

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For the Mega auction of IPL 2025, Rishabh Pant was bought by Lucknow Supergiants for a hefty amount of Rs 27 crore. But in the first match of the season, this Khabu wicketkeeper batter did not perform even seven rupees. One after the other, he kept making mistakes in the entire match. Bad captaincy, poor decisions, useless strategy… all the stakes of Pant were reverse and Lucknow lost the winning match. Let’s take a look at the four mistakes from Rishabh Pant in the match…

Pant dismissed on Duck Rishabh Pant, who came to bat at number four, was expected to perform well. Fans reached the ground to see his long sixes. But the player of 27 crores could not even play seven balls and kept on a score of 0 in six balls.

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Run out missed- When the match was standing at a critical turn in the 10th over, Rishabh Pant lost the chance to run out Triston Stabs. Stubs were then playing for 12 runs. After this life, he played an important innings of 34 runs in 22 balls.

Stumping left in the last over- Delhi needed six runs in the last six balls to win and it had only one wicket left. On the brilliant ball of Shahbaz Ahmed in 19.1 overs, batsman Mohit Sharma got completely bit, if Rishabh Pant had collecting the ball and stumping, the match would have ended.

18 and 20th over from spinners- Rishabh Pant’s performance was not only bad, but his captaincy also remained inferior. It is beyond comprehension to put spinners on bowling in the 18th and 20th over. In the 18th over, Ravi Bishnoi took 17 runs and Shahbaz Ahmed could not save six runs in the 20th over.