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27 Crore Wasted For Rishabh Pant! How Delhi Capitals Fooled LSG In IPL 2025 Auction

Aashay Chopade

Rishabh Pant in IPL 2025 (Source: AP Photos)Rishabh Pant in IPL 2025 (Source: AP Photos)

The IPL 2025 is now into its 13th game and it is the first match of the season at the Ekana Cricket Stadium in Lucknow. The home team, LSG batted first and got off to a disastrous start and somehow managed to reach 171 on the board. However, their skipper Rishabh Pant failed again and managed just two runs, raising questions over his record-breaking IPL price.

Rishabh Pant Struggles As LSG Captain In IPL 2025

In the three matches of IPL 2025, Rishabh Pant has scored just 17 runs and the knock of 15 against SRH too was just a run-a-ball one. His strike-rate is even less than Jofra Archer who has equal numbers of runs this season. It has exposed Rishabh Pant's shortcomings in the T20 format, and there are talks that LSG have made a big mistake by giving him 27 Crore.

Let's now look at how Delhi Capitals, the former team of Rishabh Pant tricked Lucknow Super Giants to inflate his price. The bid was started by LSG at his base price of 2 Crore and it was followed by RCB making the bid at 2.20 Crore. Sunrisers Hyderabad then jumped into the bid when his price was around 8 Crore and inflated it to 11.50 Crore.

Delhi Capitals Clever RTM Bid In Auction Sinks LSG

LSG though kept going and the intense bid between the two franchises started. It reached 20.75 crore and that is where LSG pulled out. However, that is where Delhi Capitals came in with the Right to Match (RTM) card and it forced LSG to inflate price at the level that DC would not think of buying him back.

They took the price to 27 Crore, and DC naturally avoided such a huge escalation, and it turned out to be a masterstroke from Delhi. Overall, LSG boss would not be happy with Rishabh Pant's performance so far and would be hoping that his wicketkeeper batter comes up with goods in the upcoming matches.

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