Rishabh Pant fails yet again, LSG owner Sanjiv Goenka can’t hide disappointment – Watch | Cricket News
Rishabh Pant’s dismal Indian Premier League (IPL) season continued as the Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) captain scored a 17-ball 18 against Punjab Kings at the HPCA Stadium in Dharamsala on Sunday.
LSG owner Sanjiv Goenka couldn’t hide his disappointment after Rishabh Pant’s failure and looked visibly upset.
Pant stepped down the track, made room, and threw the kitchen sink at it, but by doing so, he lost his shape. The bat flew off his hand and landed near the square leg umpire, while the ball flew towards the deep point region, where Shashank Singh took a comfortable catch. Azmatullah Omarzai got the wicket for Punjab.
Pant has endured a disappointing run with the bat, registering six single-digit scores for a total of 128 runs in 11 matches with a below-par strike rate of 99.22. His only noteworthy knock this season has been a 63 against Chennai Super Kings. Of the 70 batters who have faced at least 60 balls this season, only Pant has a sub-100 strike rate.
Earlier, Punjab Kings produced a superlative batting display, led by Prabhsimran Singh, to post 236 for five against LSG in their crucial IPL match.
Sent in to bat, Prabhsimran smashed a 48-ball 91 and shared a 78-run stand with skipper Shreyas Iyer (45) to lay the foundation before Nehal Wadhera (16), Shashank Singh (33), and Marcus Stoinis (15) chipped in to take PBKS to the imposing total.
For LSG, Akash Maharaj Singh (2/30) and Digvesh Singh Rathi (2/46) took two wickets each, while Price Yadav (1/43) accounted for a wicket. Mayank Yadav, in fact, conceded 60 runs in his four overs, without taking a wicket.
The LSG batting unit, which has performed well below par after the first stage of the tournament, will need to bat out of their skins to chase down the target. But at the end of 10 overs, LSG were reeling at 74 for 5.
