Rishabh Pant Blames LSG's 'Gaps' For IPL 2025 Failure: 'We Decided To Not…'- News18 – News18

Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) captain Rishabh Pant attributed his side’s poor IPL 2025 season to the ‘gaps’ in their squad due to injuries after the auction. Speaking after the six-wicket defeat to Sunrisers Hyderabad on Monday, which ended their playoffs hopes in Lucknow, Pant said the team had ‘decided to not talk about’ these gaps but over time they became ‘difficult to fill’ and cost LSG dearly.
LSG were hurt by injuries for their entire frontline pace attack at the start of the season — Mohsin Khan, Akash Deep, Avesh Khan and Mayank Yadav. While the team started well and collected five wins in the first eight games, they went on a four-match losing streak, despite having three of those pacers back available.
“Definitely it could have been one of our best seasons but coming into the tournament, we had a lot of gaps, injuries and as a team we decided to not talk about that, but it became difficult to fill those gaps for us," Pant said in the post-match presentation. “The way we planned the auction, if we had had the same bowling. But this is cricket, sometimes things go your way and sometimes they don’t, we take pride in the way we played and take the positives from the season than the negative side. We have a strong batting line up, have enough firepower and that is the biggest positive for the season, even for bowlers, a lot of times they bowled in good areas but they were patchy."
LSG’s issues were deeper than injuries. Pant’s form was poor — 135 runs in 11 innings so far — and his decision making was not up to the mark in some other matches. Even against SRH, he got out for 7 (6) as they could put up 205/7 in the first innings despite a 115-run start from the openers. In the second innings, Digvesh Rathi took two wickets but Abhishek Sharma’s half-century and Heinrich Klaasen’s 47 saw the chase through in the 19th over.
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“We knew we were 10 runs short because the wicket was playing well, like I said before, we are playing well in patches and unable to close the momentum whenever it turned up on our side. The first half of the season we played really well but the second half it became tougher and tougher to catch up with the teams on the brighter side. The bowler Rathi has come up nicely for us, his first season, the way he bowled, he is one of the positives, but you need to keep improving yourself and get better and better as the seasons go," Pant said.
The best LSG can finish now is fifth with 14 points by winning their remaining two matches against Gujarat Titans and Royal Challengers Bengaluru.
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