Delhi: The Indian Premier League (IPL) is in the 2025 match, Delhi Capitals (DC) and Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) are face to face. The match is being played at Ekana Stadium in Lucknow. The captain of Delhi Capitals won the toss and decided to bowl first. Lucknow started a great start, where Mitchell Marsh and Aiden Markram shared a tremendous 87 runs for the first wicket.
Delhi makes a great comeback
After the fast start, Delhi made a tremendous comeback and on seeing this, the team of Lucknow reached 87/0 to 110/4. During this time, the fans were surprised when captain Rishabh Pant did not come to bat. He sent his place to Impact Player Ayush Badoni and came to bat at number seven, that too in the last two balls of the innings.
Former Australian all -rounder Shane Watson and Indian batsman Ambati Rayudu did not understand this decision. Both believed that Pant should have batted before Abdul Samad. Due to the absence of Pant, questions started to arise on social media that why Pant did not come?
Pant had adopted such a strategy earlier also
This is not the first time Rishabh Pant has put himself behind in batting order. Earlier, he also did this against Kolkata Knight Riders. At that time Pant had said that the openers gave a good start and they wanted to maintain left-right combination.
This time the bet turned upside down
However, Pant’s strategy did not work this time. Nicholas Puran and the rest of the middle order batsmen could not show anything special. Pant probably kept himself down thinking that there are already many left handers in the middle order and his own form has not been special, so it would be right to give an in-form batsmen a chance.
Out without opening
Finally, Pant came out to bat in the last two balls of the innings but returned to the pavilion without scoring runs. In this season, he has scored only 106 runs in 9 matches so far and the strike rate has also been less than 100.
There may also be a reason for injury
Fans believe that another big reason for Pant’s not playing can be his fitness. During the match, he was seen tied with a bandage on the right hand, causing speculations that he may suffer minor injuries. However, no official statement has come on this so far.
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