Pant on all the injuries that the team had which derailed the season for the Lucknow Super Giants this year.
Pant on gaps’ created by injuries after LSG’s playoff hopes end.
The “lot of gaps” caused by key personnel injuries contributed to LSG’s disappointing IPL 2025 performance. Shortly after Sunrisers Hyderabad in Lucknow officially eliminated his club from the playoffs on Monday, captain Rishabh Pant made that opinion.
When put in to bat, LSG amassed 205 thanks to half-centuries from openers Mitchell Marsh and Aiden Markram. However, Pant said that this score was “at least 10 short” and that SRH destroyed it with 10 balls remaining because to a six-hitting 20-ball 59 from Abhishek Sharma.
“It couldn’t be the best season for us,” Pant said. “Getting into the tournament we knew a lot of gaps were there because of injuries. We decided we won’t talk about that, but it became difficult to close out those gaps.”
Pant appeared to be alluding to the extended absence of a number of key players. Mohsin Khan, a left-arm pacer, missed the full season, but express rapid One of LSG’s most valued retentions, Mayank Yadav, was largely absent from the competition. Mayank made a brief comeback, but he appeared undercooked and was sidelined once more due to a back issue. Due to fitness concerns, Avesh Khan and Akash Deep, two other high-profile additions, only made their way into the starting lineup halfway through the season.
“The way we planned the auction, if we had the same bowling [attack], the story would be different,” Pant said. “At the same time, this is cricket, things can happen. Sometimes they go your way, sometimes they don’t. Need to take pride in the way we’re playing. Need to look at the positives other than discussing more on the negative side.”
When asked about the silver linings from LSG’s campaign, Pant said, “there’s enough firepower in the batting,” he said. “That’s the biggest positive. Even the bowlers, they were bowling in good areas but they were patchy, a little bit. We were trying to make the best of it.
“We’ve been playing well in patches. In the first half of the season, the players did well, we tried to cover up all problems, but in the second half it became tougher and tougher to catch up against the teams doing well.”