Lucknow Tremendous Giants skipper Rishabh Pant ended his Indian Premier League 2025 marketing campaign as a batter on a excessive after slamming a century on Tuesday in opposition to Royal Challengers Bengaluru within the final league recreation on the Ekana Cricket Stadium in Lucknow. This got here in the back of a horrible IPL 2025 season for Pant, who managed simply 151 in 12 innings forward of the RCB match.
All through IPL 2025, Pant crossed the 25-run mark simply twice whereas averaging a paltry 24.45. This additionally meant that LSG completed sixth within the standings with simply six wins in 14 matches. Pant’s 61-ball 118 additionally went in useless after RCB, using on their stand-in skipper Jitesh Sharma’s blinder, beat LSG by six wickets to e book their seat within the Qualifier 1.
Nonetheless, mentor Zaheer Khan believes there isn’t any query about skipper Pant’s calibre, and his skill was by no means unsure regardless of his underwhelming performances for many of the IPL.
“He’s been good as a frontrunner. That was a optimistic for us all through the season. The shape with the bat was positively a studying expertise for him, having this type of season. However the skill and calibre — nobody had any doubt about it,” Zaheer stated after their final league match.
Pant was purchased in for an enormous sum of Rs 27 crore on the mega public sale. The previous India pacer stated it was good to see the swashbuckling keeper-batter finish the season on a excessive.
“We’re glad he completed on a extremely robust word – that’s the calibre he has, and the affect he can have on the sport,” stated Zaheer.
“If you begin off the IPL season, your first objective is to consider the playoffs, how you’ll get there…We clearly made the aware effort of (attempting to deal with) the challenges which we face at first of the season, which is dropping a couple of of our fundamental bowlers to accidents,” he added.
(With company inputs)