Rishabh Pant’s Indian Premier League 2025 for Lucknow Super Giants is getting bad to worse. While the team did string up a few good results early season, Pant’s lack of form went under the radar; they have been struggling of late, and now the form of Pant has come under sharp focus. Chasing 236 runs against Punjab Kings on a good batting track, Pant on Sunday had the opportunity to play a knock of substance, but the runs did not manifest, and the way he got out was more concerning.
Trying to hit a ball on the off-side, the bat slipped out of his hand and fell near the square-leg region, and the ball ended up as a simple catch, Shashank Singh in the ring.
“I think, at this point in time, I’m feeling very sorry for him because he’s not been changing his batting order or his approach,” Rayudu said on ESPNcricinfo’s Time Out. “I think he’s being pretty stubborn about how he wants to go about things. It’s not working in his favour at the moment. It happens in this sport, to be very honest, and he is going through a very, very bad patch. It can happen to anybody. I just hope that he takes this learning and improves on it and doesn’t become even more stubborn, but just accept the fact that he is struggling and start doing things a little differently, and] try and get better every day. That’s all you can do.”
“I think more than anything it’s just the clarity of what he wants to do because Pant ideally for me is an opener in white-ball cricket, because in the middle order he has not been great. I know he loves playing in the middle but he doesn’t have the batsmanship that is required or the skill set. Maybe he has the skillset, but not the mindset to execute that.” Rayudu added.
In 11 games so far, Pant has managed to score 128 runs at an average of 12.80 and a strike rate of 99.22.
