Rishabh Pant Blames LSG's 'Gaps' For IPL 2025 Failure: 'We Decided To Not...'

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Last Updated:May 20, 2025, 00:21 IST

LSG skipper Rishabh Pant blamed their mediocre IPL 2025 play connected injuries. Despite a beardown start, LSG's signifier dipped, with Pant's show lacking and cardinal pacers injured.

Rishabh Pant's LSG mislaid to SRH by 6 wickets (Picture Credit: AP)

Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) skipper Rishabh Pant attributed his side’s mediocre IPL 2025 play to the ‘gaps’ successful their squad owed to injuries aft the auction. Speaking aft the six-wicket decision to Sunrisers Hyderabad connected Monday, which ended their playoffs hopes successful Lucknow, Pant said the squad had ‘decided to not speech about’ these gaps but implicit clip they became ‘difficult to fill’ and outgo LSG dearly.

LSG were wounded by injuries for their full frontline gait onslaught astatine the commencement of the play — Mohsin Khan, Akash Deep, Avesh Khan and Mayank Yadav. While the squad started good and collected 5 wins successful the archetypal 8 games, they went connected a four-match losing streak, contempt having 3 of those pacers backmost available.

“Definitely it could person been 1 of our champion seasons but coming into the tournament, we had a batch of gaps, injuries and arsenic a squad we decided to not speech astir that, but it became hard to capable those gaps for us," Pant said successful the post-match presentation. “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 than the antagonistic side. We person a beardown batting enactment up, person capable firepower and that is the biggest affirmative for the season, adjacent for bowlers, a batch of times they bowled successful bully areas but they were patchy."

LSG’s issues were deeper than injuries. Pant’s signifier was mediocre — 135 runs successful 11 innings truthful acold — and his determination making was not up to the people successful immoderate different matches. Even against SRH, helium got retired for 7 (6) arsenic they could enactment up 205/7 successful the archetypal innings contempt a 115-run commencement from the openers. In the 2nd innings, Digvesh Rathi took 2 wickets but Abhishek Sharma’s half-century and Heinrich Klaasen’s 47 saw the pursuit done successful the 19th over.

“We knew we were 10 runs abbreviated due to the fact that the wicket was playing well, similar I said before, we are playing good successful patches and incapable to adjacent the momentum whenever it turned up connected our side. The archetypal fractional of the play we played truly good but the 2nd fractional it became tougher and tougher to drawback up with the teams connected the brighter side. The bowler Rathi has travel up nicely for us, his archetypal season, the mode helium bowled, helium is 1 of the positives, but you request to support improving yourself and get amended and amended arsenic the seasons go," Pant said.

The champion LSG tin decorativeness present is 5th with 14 points by winning their remaining 2 matches against Gujarat Titans and Royal Challengers Bengaluru.

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