‘We dropped many catches…’, said Lucknow Super Giants captain Pant after the defeat against CSK.

Rishabh Pant Statement: In the 53rd match of IPL 2026, Chennai Super Kings (CSK) performed brilliantly and defeated Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) by 5 wickets. LSG captain Rishabh Pant looked extremely disappointed with the eighth defeat of this season.

Pant admitted that the LSG team dropped a lot of catches in this match, due to which the team had to suffer the consequences. After the defeat at the MA Chidambaram Cricket Stadium, Pant said, ‘Obviously it was a great match. Everything was going well, we knew they would put pressure on us, because that’s what happens in Chennai. The standard of fielding should be good in T20, we dropped many catches.”

Urvil’s praise

LSG captain Urvil Patel Appreciated the strong innings of. He said, ‘Urville played a brilliant, unbelievable innings, as did Josh Inglis for us. We knew that someone would have to take responsibility for the attack. Inglis did this work for us, while Urvil did this responsibility for CSK. However, we kept fighting and had chances. Given the way we started, we wanted to put more runs on the scoreboard. However, we knew that a score closer to 200-210 was good. Batting was easy in the beginning and then it became difficult.”

After the defeat against Chennai Super Kings, the path of Lucknow Super Giants to reach the playoffs has become even more difficult. Batting first, LSG scored 203 runs on the scoreboard after losing 8 wickets in 20 overs. On behalf of the team, Josh Inglis batted brilliantly and played a brilliant inning of 85 runs in just 33 balls. Whereas, Shahbaz Ahmed played an unbeaten inning of 43 runs in 25 balls.

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However, CSK achieved the target of 204 runs in 19.2 overs by losing 5 wickets. Urvil Patel batted brilliantly for Chennai Super Kings and played a explosive inning of 65 runs in just 23 balls. Ruturaj Gaikwad contributed 42 runs in 28 balls, while Sanju Samson scored 28 runs in 14 balls.

With IANS inputs