“Rishabh Pant’s time to say, ‘Nicholas Gariban, you take …”: LSG captain gave blunt advice

Rishabh Pant, Star India wicketkeeper-better and the most expensive player in the history of IPL 2025 with a price tag of Rs 27 crore, is a weak season with just 128 runs in ten innings. His performance includes five single -digit scores, a duck and only one half a century. In Sunday’s match against Punjab Kings, pants came to number 4 after two initial dismissal, but chased the target of 237 and managed only 18 runs off 17 balls. LSG lost the game by 37 runs and now sat on the seventh position on the table with six defeats in 11 matches.

Former Australian batsman Aaron Finch believes that Pants should hand over the role of wicketkeeping to Nicholas Gorn.

“When you are a wicketkeeper, it should be really difficult to captain one side. You possibly talk to your bowler between the overs, and with a stop -clock rule, that time is at least. It can be really difficult – the bowler’s plan can change the ball to the ball, and so how you can be animated and disappointed.

“Perhaps it’s time that he says, ‘Gorn, you take gloves. I need to get rhythm, manage plans better and talk directly to my attack.”

IPL 2025 has been the worst season for pants in the tournament since its debut in 2016. In its debut season, Pants scored 198 runs in 10 matches, including an average of 24.75, including a half -century.

In the ongoing season, the average of the pants has increased to 12.80 and for the first time in the tournament his strike rate has also come down to 100. In 122 IPL matches, Pant has scored 3412 runs, including 19 half -centuries and hundred at an average of hundred 33.13.

Former India opener Virender Sehwag believes that Lucknow Super Veteran (LSG) captain Rishabh Pant should contact his role model MS Dhoni to come out of the lean patch in IPL 2025.

“Again, he has a mobile, he needs to take a phone and call someone. If you think you are thinking negatively, there are many cricket with you can discuss. Dhoni is his role model, so he should call him. It will lighten it,” Sehwag said on the cricbuz.

“I think Rishabh Pant should look at his old IPL clip where he scored, and this will give him confidence. Many times, we forget our routine because this Rishabh pants are completely different, which we saw before his injury. Sometimes, when there is a disturbance in the routine, it affects the run.