Rishabh Pant: Before IPL 2025, another team has announced its captain. Indian premier League’s one of famous Franchise Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) announced new captain for upcoming season.
Rishabh Pant has been made the new captain of Lucknow Super Giants. Lucknow Super Giants bought Rishabh Pant for hopping Rs 27 crore in the auction. Rishabh Pant has also captained Delhi before this. Before Rishabh Pant, KL Rahul was the captain of the team. He captained the team in three seasons. During this time the performance of the team was decent.
Krunal Pandya and Nicholas Pooran was also in race of captaincy.
Apart from KL Rahul, two more players was in the race of captaincy. Krunal Pandya and Nicholas Pooran are named in this list. Pandya has captained LSG in 6 matches, winning three of them and losing two. At the same time, Nicholas Pooran has captained one match. He won this match.
Ricky Ponting wants Rishbah Pant to sit in the dugout during IPL 2023
📰 “If he’s actually not physically fit enough to play, we’d still love to have him around,” the DC head coach said.
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Rishabh Pant’s record in IPL
Rishabh Pant made his IPL debut in 2016. He has scored 3,284 runs in 111 matches in the IPL. He scored 684 runs in IPL 2018. During this, he played an unbeaten innings of 128 against Mumbai Indians. Apart from this, Pant has scored more than 400 runs in three seasons.
Sanjiv Sanjiv GoenkaOwner of LSGpraised Rishabh Pant after announcement of New Captain
LSG owner Sanjiv Goenka said,
“I think Rishabh Pant will emerge as one of the best IPL captains ever. In 10-12 years you will hear his name along with MS Dhoni and Rohit Sharma.
IPL 2025 LSGFull Squad
Rishabh Pant (Captain), Nicholas Pooran, Ravi Bishnoi, Mayank Yadav, Mohsin Khan, Ayush Badoni, David Miller, Aiden Markram, Mitchell Marsh, Avesh Khan, Abdul Samad, Aryan Juyal, Akash Deep, Shahbaz Ahmed, Akash Singh, Shamar Joseph, Prince Yadav, Yuvraj Chaudhary, Rajvardhan Hungergekar, Arshin Kulkarni, Matthew Breetzke, Himmat Singh, M. Siddharth, Digvesh Singh.
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