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Rishabh Pant played a solid cameo as Lucknow Super Giants notched 235/2 against Gujarat Titans in an IPL 2025 match on Thursday. Under fire for a poor run of form, Pant came in to bat 19th over. Even then, he made an impact. On the first ball of the 20th over, he hit Kagiso Rabada for a six. Then on the fifth ball of the last over, he hit a no-look six. The video of the shot has gone viral.
Rishabh Pant's IPL 2025 campaign has been forgettable to say the least. He was picked at the IPL 2025 auction by the Sanjiv Goenka-owned Lucknow Super Giants for Rs 27 crore - the highest any franchise has paid for a player in the tournament's history. But the star wicketkeeper-batter had his poorest IPL ever as he scored just 135 in 12 matches with an average of 12.27. LSG even failed to qualify for the IPL 2025 playoffs.
With Rishabh Pant going through a wretched season, struggling to produce an innings of substance in the ongoing Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025, former India cricketer turned coach Yograj Singh has spotted a couple of technical flaws in his technique. Yograj says solving those issues will take only five minutes and would put the Lucknow Super Giants captain back on track and scoring big runs again. The 67-year-old former cricketer, who has coached current players like Shubman Gill and Abhishek Sharma besides his son Yuvraj Singh, says that with a bit of focused correction, Pant will be 'back to his best in no time'.
There might be an air of doubt about Mohammed Shami's ability to last a five-Test series but erstwhile national selection committee members MSK Prasad, Devang Gandhi and Jatin Paranjpe are unequivocal that the 'Amroha Express' is a must-pick for the tour of England. Shami has played nine IPL games this season for Sunrisers Hyderabad with only six wickets in his kitty and has gone for over 11 runs per over. However it has been learnt that Shami has already started bowling with the red Dukes at the SRH nets with an eye on England tour, now that SRH's play-off qualification hopes have been dashed. The Indian squad, which is expected to comprise 16 members, will be one of the trickiest ones in recent times as there is a debate around who the new captain should be.
It has been a terrible IPL 2025 season for Rishabh Pant till now. The Lucknow Super Giants skipper has scored just 135 runs in 12 matches till now at an average of just below 13. Pant failed to score big once again during the match against Sunrisers Hyderabad on Monday as he was dismissed for just 7. Legendary India batter Kris Srikkanth was extremely critical of Pant's batting and blasted him for his dismal run of form. Srikkanth suggested that Pant, who was bought for a record Rs 27 Crore, should spend some time alone and try to work on his game instead on concentrating on the failures.
Bought for a whopping fee of Rs. 27 crore, a record in the history of the Indian Premier League, Rishabh Pant has been nothing but a costly disappointment for the Lucknow Super Giants in the 2025 season. The wicket-keeper batter, who was also given the team's captaincy, only scored 135 runs in 12 matches so far, proving to be inefficient both with the bat and from a leadership point of view. As the defeat against the Sunrisers Hyderabad confirmed LSG's exit from the IPL playoffs race on Monday, Pant was branded as an 'okay player' who performs the worst in the T20 format.
Rohit Sharma wanted to travel to England for the five-Test series and retire midway just like Dhoni had done during the 2014 tour of Australia, according to a report by Sky Sports. However, the offer was rejected by the BCCI and that reportedly led to the decision to retire ahead of the series. "Selectors wanted consistency during the series and offered Sharma the opportunity to go to the series, but not as captain. He decided to retire instead," the report claimed. Rohit stunned everyone with his decision to retire from Test cricket and Kohli followed suit just few days later. As a result, the BCCI selectors face a tough challenge to fill the void left by the retirement of the two stalwarts of modern cricket.
Former India cricketer Aakash Chopra believes Rishabh Pant will need to reassess his approach in T20 cricket after enduring a "nightmare" IPL season, squandering a vital opportunity to stake a stronger claim for a spot in India's T20 set-up. Pant, who is not a regular in India's T20 squad, was expected to make a mark this season. However, the Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) skipper managed only 135 runs in 12 matches after being bought for a mammoth Rs 27 crore.