'Ability And Calibre...': Zaheer Khan Sums Up Rishabh Pant's Lackluster Season

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Last Updated:May 28, 2025, 13:15 IST

Rishabh Pant rediscovered his big-hitting signifier successful the past crippled of the play with a 61-ball 118, but it was successful a losing effort against RCB.

Mentor Zaheer Khan (left) with LSG skipper Rishabh Pant. (BCCI Photo)

Lucknow Super Giants mentor Zaheer Khan has affirmed that skipper Rishabh Pant’s endowment and capableness were ne'er questioned contempt his lackluster performances for astir of the IPL season. He believes that the charismatic stumper volition go stronger aft this experience.

Acquired for a monolithic Rs 27 crore astatine the mega auction, Pant went done a unsmooth patch, scoring lone 269 runs from 13 innings. He rediscovered his big-hitting signifier successful the past crippled of the play with a 61-ball 118, but it was successful a losing effort against Royal Challengers Bengaluru connected Tuesday.

“He’s been bully arsenic a leader. That was a affirmative for america passim the season. The signifier with the bat was decidedly a learning acquisition for him, having this benignant of season. But the quality and calibre — nary 1 had immoderate uncertainty astir it," Zaheer said successful the post-match property league connected Tuesday.

The erstwhile India gait spearhead noted it was encouraging to spot Pant decorativeness the play strongly.

“We’re blessed helium finished connected a truly beardown enactment – that’s the calibre helium has, and the interaction helium tin person connected the game," Zaheer added.

It was a disappointing play for LSG, who ended seventh with six wins and 8 losses. Injuries to cardinal bowlers disrupted their bushed and consistency.

“When you commencement disconnected the IPL season, your archetypal extremity is to deliberation of the playoffs, however you are going to get there… We evidently made the conscious effort of (trying to handle) the challenges which we are facing successful the opening of the season, which is losing a fewer of our main bowlers to injuries," helium said.

“We made an effort to not wage excessively overmuch attraction to that… and uncovering ways of winning the match," Zaheer said.

“That is the process which everyone was aligned to and looking astatine that, we person had a decent season… but yes, we fell abbreviated and putting the crippled unneurotic was a situation which was evident close done the season…," Zaheer said.

Despite the bowling issues, Zaheer mentioned that stableness successful the batting portion was a large positive. The overseas trio of Aiden Markram, Mitchell Marsh, and Nicholas Pooran — the team’s standout performer with the bat — provided solidity to the line-up.

“There are positives, a batch of positives — the stableness was evident with respect to batting.

“But with respect to bowling, we were trying to fig retired the combinations, we were trying to fig retired the options which tin get america implicit the enactment and that is thing that was the communicative close passim the season," helium concluded.

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