LSG coach Justin Langer angry over Rishabh Pant’s flop show of Rs 27 crore, said “Rishabh is just…

The performance of Lucknow Super Giants, captained by Rishabh Pant, in IPL 2026 has been very poor so far. Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) has played 7 matches so far, in which they won only 2 matches, while they had to face defeat in 5 matches. Lucknow Super Giants team is now almost out of the race for the playoffs (IPL 2026 Playoff).

Team coach Justin Langer is very disappointed on the poor performance of LSG, while Justin Langer has also expressed his disappointment on the poor performance of Rs 27 crore player Rishabh Pant. Justin Langer has also talked about the poor performance of LSG captain Rishabh Pant.

Justin Langer said this on Rishabh Pant’s poor performance

In the mega auction of IPL 2025, Lucknow Super Giants bought Rishabh Pant for a huge amount of Rs 27 crores. He was a flop in the entire season, in only 2 matches he scored a century in 1 and a half-century in 1. At the same time, this season the LSG captain has been able to score only 147 runs so far, during which his average has been only 21.

On Rishabh Pant’s poor performance, LSG coach Justin Langer said that

“We all know that a lot of his game is based on his instincts. He bats at the important number three position and wants to play an aggressive style. He wants to show the same game as he did against Punjab. But we are disappointed with him not being able to do that, and he himself is more upset by it. He still wants to play aggressive shots. We are not short of options and there is so much Indian talent in the team that only three foreign players are playing.”

Rishabh Pant has captained very poorly for 2 seasons

Not only the individual performance of Rishabh Pant, but his captaincy has also been very poor. In IPL 2025, LSG could win only 6 out of 14 matches under his captaincy, while they had to face defeat in 8 matches. LSG team had missed a place in the playoffs.

This season too, his performance and captaincy had been very poor so far, under the captaincy of this player this season the LSG team has been able to win only 2 out of 7 matches and is at 9th place in the points table of IPL 2026.