Rishabh Pant & Digvesh Rathi
The last league stage match of IPL 2025 was played between Royal Challengers Bangalore and Lucknow Super Giants. A lot was seen in the last few overs of this match. Meanwhile, Digvesh Rathi tried to runout the non -striker end. There was a lot of talk in the cricket world about which. R Ashwin has given his response to this. Ashwin believes that Pant should not have withdrawn the appeal and should have supported his bowler.
R Ashwin landed in support of Digvesh Rathi
Ashwin supported LSG bowler Digvesh Rathi and said that a captain’s job is to support the bowler. He said that he is a very big fan of Pant. He is making it clear again before he is targeted by people. But imagine, you are Rathi’s father and his captain criticized him in front of crores of people. He really moved forward. The job of a captain is to support the bowler and not make him feel small.
He also said that Pant is a great cricketer. He scored a brilliant century and he knows that he would do very well in cricket. He is waiting for the England series for him, he is keen to see how Pant performs in the England series.
What was the whole matter?
In fact, Digvesh Rathi tried to run out the batsman Jitesh Sharma at the non-strayer end in the match against Royal Challengers Bangalore, but the third umpire did not listen to it after seeing the replay and called it right and called not out. Meanwhile, Pant withdrew the appeal when the third umpire was watching the replay after the runout appeal. After the match, this runout has become a topic of discussion. Talking about the match, while batting first, LSG scored 227 runs thanks to Rishabh Pant’s century innings. RCB created history by achieving this target with 6 wickets.
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