It has been announced, Rishabh Pant will be the new captain of Lucknow Super Giants; Will the team become champion now?
Before the upcoming season of IPL 2025, a big news has come out from the camp of Lucknow Super Giants. In fact, on Monday, January 20, LSG franchise owner Sanjiv Goenka Indian team Star wicketkeeper batsman Rishabh Pant has been declared the new captain of Lucknow Super Giants.
Rishabh Pant was included in their team by Lucknow Super Giants in the IPL 2025 auction by paying a huge amount of Rs 27 crores. With this, Rishabh Pant also became the most expensive player in IPL history. Since then, speculations were also being made that Super Giants were looking at Rishabh Pant as their new captain, which has now been proved correct.
It is noteworthy that before this, Rishabh Pant had captained Delhi Capitals in IPL 2021, 2022 and 2024. Let us tell you that Pant has captained Team India in 5 T20 Internationals. Now he is going to be the fourth captain of Lucknow Super Giants. Before him, KL Rahul (37 matches), Krunal Pandya (6 matches), and Nicholas Pooran (1 match) have played this role for Super Giants.
Rishabh Pant's record in IPL is like this
Also know that Rishabh Pant is one of the most explosive wicketkeeper batsman in the Indian Premier League. He has played 8 seasons of this tournament so far, during which he has scored 3,284 runs in 111 matches at an average of 35.31 and strike rate of 148.93. During this period, one century and 18 half centuries have come from his bat. In such a situation, it will be very interesting to see how the upcoming season of IPL turns out for Rishabh Pant as the captain of Lucknow Super Giants. The Super Giants will be hoping that captain Pant helps them win their first IPL title, however, only time will tell whether their dream comes true or not.
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