Delhi: Now there is no other option but to believe that the Indian Premier League (IPL) can write Rishabh Pant’s name on top in the list of the biggest ‘flop show’ of the 2025 season. From his perspective of Rs 27 crore, the franchise money was not recovered at all and also flopped as captain and batsman. The interesting thing is that this is not the first IPL season when he is a flop as captain, no matter what the team is. In 2021, the team played with him, while in 2022, 2024 and 2025, this group could not grow even beyond the stage.
Flop as captain-batsman
Similarly, as a captain-batsman, a flop and the captain’s lowest batting average (at least 10 innings) in an IPL season, Ion Morgan (2021) with an average of 11.08 is now below him. Pant’s record: In the 11 innings of 12 matches, 135 runs at 12.27 average. They count a much better batsman than Morgan, so their plight is even more pity.
Rishabh Pant’s worst record
Another aspect of this discussion is his record as wicketkeeper-batsman. There was a time when due to his batting, this discussion started in Team India itself that he should play as a pure batsman and do wicketkeeping. This is why Rishabh Pant has flopped badly this season as a wicketkeeper-batsman. Rishabh Pant has the worst record of wicketkeeper-batsman who batted in at least 10 innings in IPL 2025. Rishabh Pant’s name is after Jose Butler (500 in 11 innings), RD Ricelton (336 in 12 innings), H Classen (311 in 10 innings) and MS Dhoni (180 in 12 innings).
Rishabh Pant on top with 12.27 average
If you look at the record of the lowest average of the wicketkeeper-batsman (among the minimum 10 innings players) in an IPL season, Rishabh Pant is at the top with a average of 12.27 in the flop. They see so much ‘out of touch’ that their critics are almost assuming that they will not be able to do anything special even in the remaining 2 matches. Compared to him, Naman Ojha (2011) with an average of 12.30, Dinesh Karthik (2023) with an average of 12.72, Dinesh Karthik (2015) with an average of 12.81 and Naman Ojha (2016) with an average of 13.60 is looking better. Note that Rishabh Pant’s name is above both of them in the reputation of a batsman.
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