Did Rishabh Pant Fake Injury To Break KKR's Momentum vs LSG In IPL 2025? Internet's Big Allegation

The Rishabh Pant-led Lucknow Super Giants registered a slender four-win over Kolkata Knight Riders at the Eden Gardens, Kolkata, on Sunday to register their third win in five matches. Despite scoring 238/3 in 20 overs, LSG survived a scare after some terrific batting from Sunil Narine, Ajinkya Rahane, Venkatesh Iyer and Rinku Singh. Ultimately, Pant's side won by four runs. However, fans were intrigued when Pant received medical attendance at the start of the 13th over. KKR had reached 149/2 in 12 overs with Ajinkya Rahane and Venkatesh Iyer in full flow. Pant looked liked having an issue on his back.

Coincidentally, immediately after the medical break, KKR lost Rahane, Ramandeep Singh, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Venkatesh Iyer and Andre Russell in successive overs. A section of social media users compared the incident to Pant's medical time-out during the 2024 T20 World Cup final against South Africa when Heinrich Klaasen was in full flow. 

Did Rishabh Pant Use Fake Injury Tactics Of T20 World Cup 2024 Final vs KKR In IPL 2025?#RishabhPant #IPL2025 #DCvsKKR #FakeInjuryDebate #CricketControversy pic.twitter.com/OOKCpuFiNe

Rishabh Pant is so good at the art of slowing the game down with an injury !! We've seen that before #KKRvsLSG #KKRvLSG pic.twitter.com/4fEPM14CuX

KKR lost today's match because of an unsportive mischief of Rishabh Pant. KKR was going strong untill Pant's pretension of injury lying down on the ground. Then batters lost stance. Once Rohit Sharma said the same tactics was adopted by Pant against a foreign country.

Rishabh Pant's masterclass #KKRvsLSG pic.twitter.com/5hzCkA5hzR

Speaking about his ;medical timeout' during the T20 World Cup final, Pant made an interesting admission. "I actually thinking what to