Why Has BCCI Punished Captain Rishabh Pant And Entire LSG XII?

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Last Updated:May 28, 2025, 09:14 IST

Rishabh Pant has been slapped with a Rs 30 lakh good portion different LSG players volition person to fork retired Rs 12 lakh good each oregon 50 per cent of their lucifer interest - whichever is less.

Rishabh Pant signed disconnected with a century. (BCCI Photo)

Lucknow Super Giants finished their IPL 2025 run connected Tuesday nighttime with a decision to Royal Challengers Bengaluru astatine the Ekana Cricket Stadium. Batting first, LSG racked up 228/3 acknowledgment to an unbeaten period from skipper Rishabh Pant. However, the people was chased down by Royal Challengers Bengaluru with Pant’s counterpart Jitesh Sharma playing a blinder of an innings to occurrence his squad to a six-wicket win.

It was LSG‘s eighth decision of the season, and they finished seventh connected the points table. The Pant-led squad was recovered blameworthy of exceeding the time-limit to implicit their 20 overs against RCB and frankincense their skipper has been slapped with a good of Rs 30 lakh.

“As this was his team’s 3rd offence of the play nether the IPL‘s Code of Conduct for minimum over-rate offences, Rishabh Pant was fined INR 30 Lakh," IPL said successful a media merchandise connected Wednesday morning.

“The remainder of the Playing XI, including the Impact Player, were each fined either INR 12 Lakh oregon 50 per cent of their respective lucifer fees, whichever is lesser," it added.

Though Pant ended the play connected a affirmative note, overall, helium would’ve been disappointed with the campaign. LSG splurged a grounds Rs 27 crore to motion the wicketkeeper-batter astatine the IPL mega auction past year, but the returns weren’t commensurate.

Pant scored 269 runs from 13 innings this IPL with 181 of them being scored crossed 2 matches.

“Eventually you got to play 40 overs of bully cricket. 20 overs volition decidedly not prevention you successful a T20 crippled and that’s been our story. There were a batch of wounded concerns earlier the tournament, that’s thing that wounded america going done the season," Pant said aft the match.

The 27-year-old volition beryllium adjacent seen successful enactment during the archetypal Test of India’s England circuit that starts from June 20. He volition service arsenic the vice-captain of the squad that volition beryllium led by Shubman Gill.

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