Rishabh Pant
The Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) team failed to make the IPL 2025 debut under the leadership of new captain Rishabh Pant. Lucknow suffered defeat to Delhi Capitals (DC). Batting first, Lucknow scored 209 runs after losing 8 wickets in 20 overs. In response, Delhi achieved a target of 210 runs with 1 wicket remaining. This happened for the 5th time in IPL history when a team managed to win the match by one wicket. Ashutosh Sharma’s biggest contributor to Delhi’s victory, who scored a brilliant half -century.
Pant told the score enough
After the defeat in the first match of Lucknow, captain Rishabh Pant said that the team had scored a good score. Although we lost Momentum between 13 and 17 overs, but the score was quite good. We will learn from this defeat and try to improve. It is easy to say where there was a mistake but the wicket was good for batting. Triston Stabs, Ashutosh batted well and the Vipraj Nigam together made the match in favor of Delhi. The captain further said that he feels that our top -order batsmen really played well and they feel that it was a very good score on this wicket. As a team, we want to take positivity from every match and learn.
Assistant coach’s opinion separated
However, at the press conference after the match, LSG’s Assistant Coach Lance Clushernar’s opinion appeared to his captain. Clusherner said that after a good start from Mitchell Marsh and Nicholas Puran, he was about 20–30 runs behind. He said that this was probably the reason why we came under pressure during bowling. He said that Delhi Capitals performed well with the bat, but we are in this position because we did not score enough runs, which we should have made. When the bowlers bowled properly, there was a little spin, so they felt that it was a very good wicket. There was a lot of a lot for everyone.
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