Mohammad Kaif Slams Rishabh Pant After LSG Fail To Qualify For IPL 2025 Playoffs

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Last Updated:May 20, 2025, 20:23 IST

The Lucknow Super Giants skipper had bemoaned the sustained lack of his cardinal accelerated bowlers aft a dream-crushing nonaccomplishment to Sunrisers Hyderabad.

Mohammad Kaif slams Rishabh Pant aft LSG neglect to suffice for IPL 2025 playoffs. (Picture Credit: AP)

Former India subordinate Mohammad Kaif lashed retired astatine Rishabh Pant for citing aggregate injuries to cardinal bowlers arsenic 1 large crushed down Lucknow Super Giants’ struggles and league signifier exit astatine this year’s Indian Premier League. After LSG suffered a decision by six wickets against Sunrisers Hyderabad connected Monday (May 19) and crashed retired of the playoffs race, skipper Pant had blamed the lack of their important pacers – Mayank Yadav and Mohsin Khan – for their underperformance this season.

Kaif didn’t bargain Pant’s post-match comments and lambasted the skipper and his squad for their pre-season readying and strategy, banking connected specified injury-prone options. While explicit speedster Mayank Yadav was retained for Rs 11 crores, LSG offered left-arm speedy Mohsin Khan Rs 4 crores to enactment with the squad up of the IPL 2025 auction. But Yadav could lone play 2 games amid sustained backmost wounded troubles, and Mohsin couldn’t instrumentality portion successful immoderate of LSG’s matches.

“I would alternatively wage wealth to clasp players who tin play the afloat season. LSG’s full bowling onslaught is injury-prone. I’m not saying injuries don’t happen, but for players who are much susceptible to them, halt retaining them for large money. Instead, prime them up astatine the auction," said Kaif, arsenic quoted by NDTV.

Pant’s remarks came aft a disappointing bowling show allowed Sunrisers to seashore location to a comfy six-wicket triumph contempt the Super Giants posting a hefty 205/7. Openers Mitchell Marsh (65), Aiden Markram (61) and middle-order batter Nicholas Pooran (45) batted superbly for LSG, but Digvesh Rathi’s 2 for 37 emerged arsenic the lone bully enactment successful the bowling section successful what was a must-win encounter.

“Definitely it could person been 1 of our champion seasons, but coming into the tournament, we had a batch of gaps and injuries, and arsenic a team, we decided to not speech astir that, but it became hard to capable those gaps for us," Pant said astatine the post-match interrogation aft his team’s seventh nonaccomplishment successful 12 matches.

“The mode we planned the auction, if we had had the aforesaid bowling… but this is cricket; sometimes things spell your mode and sometimes they don’t. We instrumentality pridefulness successful the mode we played and instrumentality the positives from the play alternatively than the antagonistic side."

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