When Lucknow Super Giants broke the bank to sign Rishabh Pant for ₹27 crore at the 2025 IPL auction, they weren’t just buying a wicketkeeper-batter. They were banking on his redemption arc.
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After his return from injury, Pant was seen as the spark LSG needed: a street-smart leader, an explosive left-hander, and a marketing dream. But ten matches into the season, the reality is brutally different.
Pant has not just underperformed - he has become the most disappointing signing in IPL history.
In Sunday’s must-win match against Punjab Kings, his strange dismissal - a mistimed slog that sent his bat flying and his wicket tumbling captured everything wrong with his season.
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Rishabh Pant's scores in each IPL 2025 match
- 0 (6) vs DC
- 15 (15) vs SRH
- 2 (5) vs PBKS
- 2 (6) vs PBKS
- 21 (18) vs MI
- 63 (49) vs CSK
- 3 (9) vs RR
- 0 (2) vs DC
- 4 (2) vs MI
- 18 (17) vs PBKS
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That’s 128 runs in 10 innings at an average of 12.80 and a strike rate of 99.2. Just one and seven scores in single digits. Both his ducks were against Delhi Capitals - the team he once captained.
₹21 lakh per run in IPL 2025 - LSG's costly gamble on Rishabh Pant
By any measure, these are dire numbers. But given the context of his price, they become astonishing.
Pant has effectively cost LSG ₹21 lakh for every run scored this season. That’s much more than the uncapped players earn in an entire tournament.
The numbers sting, but the intangibles hurt more. Pant has looked out of rhythm, frustrated and uncertain - a far cry from the bold match-winner LSG hoped to unleash.
Updated #IPL2025 stats for Rishabh Pant
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🏏 128 runs
📉 14.22 average
☄️ 99.2 strike rate
🔴 52.7% dot balls
🪢 13% boundary rate
₹21L per run scored#PBKSvsLSG https://t.co/TLBBHUN8CE
And as cameras caught Sanjiv Goenka visibly exasperated during the PBKS match, it is clear the franchise is beginning to feel the weight of its record-breaking gamble.
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