Rishabh Pant: Lucknow Super Giants can announce its new captain before the 2025 season. On Monday, the franchise will hold a special press conference at the RPSG headquarters in Kolkata, in which the name of the captain can be confirmed. However, the franchise has not officially told on what issue this press conference is being held. If reports are to be believed, Rishabh Pant could have been announced as the new captain of Lucknow in this press conference.
According to news agency IANS, some franchise officials said that regarding Monday’s press conference, two things could happen or both could happen. First- Announcement of new captain of LSG. Second- Unveiling of the new jersey of the franchise, because some players of the team are also likely to attend this press conference.
ENPS Cricinfo Report According to, Rishabh Pant is sure to be made the captain of Lucknow Super Giants before IPL 2025. Pant became the most expensive player of IPL in the mega auction of November 2024, who was bought by Lucknow for Rs 27 crore. Let us tell you, along with Rishabh Pant, Nicholas Pooran and Aiden Markram were also in the race for captaincy. Lucknow had retained Nicholas Puran for Rs 21 crore.
Under the leadership of Indian wicketkeeper-batsman KL Rahul, Lucknow made it to the playoffs in two years in its first three seasons. However, he failed to make it to the finals on both occasions. IPL 2024 was very bad for Lucknow as the franchise finished seventh in the points table.
This is the second franchise for Rishabh Pant, where he will be the captain. Earlier he had led Delhi Capitals. Captaincy was the reason for the distance between Rishabh Pant and Delhi Capitals after IPL 2024. Delhi was ready to retain him, but it was confirming that he would be the captain. After which Rishabh Pant decided to go to the auction. Before the auction, Lucknow had retained five players – Nicholas Pooran, Ravi Bishnoi, Mayank Yadav, Ayush Badoni and Mohsin Khan.
Lucknow was looking for such an Indian player in the auction and the franchise bid for Rishabh Pant. Rishabh Pant and Shreyas Iyer were at the top of his list. In the auction, they initially won a tough bidding war with Hyderabad and bought Pant for Rs 20.75 crore. But then Delhi Capitals chose to use the right-to-match. Lucknow then increased the bid to Rs 27 crore, after which Delhi was out.
Rishabh Pant has been a part of Delhi Capitals since 2016 and the franchise gave him the captaincy in 2021. Pant remained the captain of Delhi Capitals for the rest of the seasons except the 2023 season. Rishabh Pant will now work closely with head coach Justin Langer, with whom he had interacted during the Border-Gavaskar Trophy in Australia, and will also work with new team mentor Zaheer Khan.
