Pant incurs another fine with regards to slow-over rate while other members of the playing XII were each fined as well.
Pant incurs another fine for third slow over-rate offence.
As a result of his team’s slow over-rate in Tuesday’s IPL 2025 encounter against Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) in Lucknow, skipper Rishabh Pant of the Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) has been punished.
Given that it was the third LSG infraction of the season (the first and second occurred on April 5 and April 26, respectively), Pant was fined INR 30 lakh for violating the IPL’s code of conduct regarding over-rate offences. Either INR 12 lakh or 50% of their individual match fees, whichever was smaller, was fined to the other players in the starting XII.
Pant will not be suspended, as was the case until the 2024 Indian Premier League, even though this is his third infraction. Hardik Pandya, the captain of the Mumbai Indians (MI), missed his team’s season start since his ban from the previous season carried over, however the regulation was changed in advance of the 2025 Indian Premier League.
When LSG was selected to bat on Tuesday, Pant’s undefeated 118 off 61 balls had led them to 227 for 3, but Virat Kohli’s 54 and Jitesh Sharma’s undefeated 85 helped RCB chase it down with eight balls and six wickets remaining.
LSG placed seventh on the ten-team points table at the end of the season with six victories and 12 points from 14 games. Meanwhile, with 19 points from the league phase, RCB has advanced to Qualifier 1.