Lucknow Super Giants Caption Rishabh Pant: Indian team's star wicketkeeper batsman Rishabh Pant has been chosen as the captain of Lucknow Super Giants. Team owner Sanjeev Goenka announced the new captain for IPL 2025. Before this, KL Rahul was captaining Lucknow Super Giants. The team has announced a new captain without retaining KL Rahul.
Goenka said that Lucknow Super Giants will be captained by Rishabh Pant. We were waiting for its announcement for a long time after the auction.
Most expensive player in IPL history
Lucknow Super Giants bought Pant for Rs 27 crore for IPL 2025. With this he became the most expensive player in the history of IPL. Earlier, the highest bid of Shreyas Iyer was Rs 26.75 crore. Pant played for Delhi Capitals from 2016 to 2024. Rishabh Pant has been representing Delhi Capitals since 2016. He has scored 3284 runs in 110 matches at an average of 35.31. This includes one century and 18 half-centuries. In 2021, the team made him the captain. He was the playoff player of the season at that time. Lucknow retained Nicholas Pooran, Mayank Yadav, Ravi Bishnoi, Mohsin Khan and Ayush Badoni in the mega auction for the IPL 2025 season.
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