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3 Mistakes That 27 Crore Captain Rishabh Pant Committed Against His Ex-Team Delhi Capitals

Aashay Chopade

Rishabh Pant After Ashutosh Sharma's winning Six (Source:@mufaddal_vohra/X.com)Rishabh Pant After Ashutosh Sharma's winning Six (Source:@mufaddal_vohra/X.com)

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The IPL 2025 is up and running now, and the fourth match of IPL 2025 turned out to be a final-over thriller. Rishabh Pant was bought for 27 Crore as was expected to lead LSG with great distinction, however, despite being ahead of the game for a long time, Pant and co. let the game drift and DC registered a thrilling 1-run win.

Rishabh Pant's captaincy has not always been upto the mark in IPL, and it was not again in the game against LSG. It cost LSG game against DC at Visakhapatnam, and here are three of those mistakes.

1. Underutilising Shardul Thakur

Shardul Thakur started off with two wickets in the opening over, and those were the big wickets of Jake Fraser-McGurk and Abishek Porel.  Delhi Capitals were 2-2 and it put them under immense pressure in their run-chase of 210. However, he did not came back to bowl in the third over as Pant decided to go with a debutant Digvesh Rathi. He was hit for two fours and that eased off the pressure and gave DC, the breathing space they needed.

Shardul Thakur was then given the fifth over of the innings, but it was his last of the game which was quite strange given his experience in an already depleted LSG bowling attack. He could have been crucial when Ashutosh was going greats guns at the death with his variations, but was not used, and proved costly for LSG.

2. Pant's Brain-Fade Moment Results In Missed Stumping

Rishabh Pant also missed a stumping chance of Mohit Sharma in the final over of the match. It was the first ball of the over and Delhi Capitals had only one wicket in their kitty. Shahbaz Ahmed bowled a beauty to beat Mohit Sharma, but Pant under the pressure of the game missed a stumping chance.

Infact, he had all his focus on the ball hitting the pad and went up in appeal straightaway. The umpire did not gave it out, and Rishabh Pant in desperation took the DRS. The Ball Tracking showed that the ball is missing the stumps, and a moment of brain-fade where instead of going for a stumping, Pant kept his focus on LBW appeal was a big blunder.

3. Over-Reliance On Debutant Prince Yadav

Prince Yadav, the fast bowler, who made his IPL debut was brought in the 10th over of the innings. He was supposed to play a death-bowler role did well in his initial two overs, giving away just 11 runs.

The right-arm pacer from Delhi was then brought on in the 16th over of the game, and Ashutosh along with Vipraj Nigam smashed him all over the park. He went for 20 runs in that over and clearly looked short of ideas against the onslaught. 

However, instead of going towards more experienced Shardul Thakur who had two overs left in his bank, Pant persisted with Prince Yadav and he was hit for 16 in the penultimate over which brought the equation to run-a-ball and released the pressure that was creeping up in the run chase.

LSG eventually lost the game and all these three mistakes played a big role in DC's win in a game of short margin.