Facing Royal Challengers Bengaluru in the last league stage match of the Indian Premier League 2025, LSG Skipper Rishabh Pant bounced back in style after having a sluggish season this year. Winning the toss, the visitors invited the home team to bat first and opted to bowl first.
LSG opened with a new combination today, Matthew Breetzke replaced Aiden Markram and opened with Mitchell Mars,h while on the bowling end, N Thushara opened the bowling attack for RCB. Batting first, Rishabh did make a change in the batting order and upgraded himself to number third. Coming after the dismissal of Breetzke, Rishabh took on the field in the 3rd over and then took control of the shaky start of the team. He looked confident from the start and reached his half-century in just 29 balls.
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Rishabh Pant is in the mood tonight 😎
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After a quiet run through IPL 0225, Pnat finally found his rhythm delivering a much-needed counterattack against Royal Challengers Bengaluru. Before heading into this match, Pant had managed just 187 runs from 13 games with a modest average of 17.00 and a strike rate of 113.33- way below then his career standards. But today, he flipped the narrative and smashed his half-century in just 29 balls with a strike rate of 165 plus. By the end of the 11th over, he was on 57 off 32 balls, with LSG comfortably placed at 114/1. His partnership with Mitchell Marsh (89 off 51 balls) really set the tone for LSG’s innings.
Reaching his fifty in 29 balls, Pant smashed a total of 6 fours and 3 sixes to anchor his innings, and at the time of writing, he was still on the field and building a great score for the RCB to give them a tough chase.
LSG vs RCB: Playing XIs
Lucknow Super Giants Playing XI: Mitchell Marsh, Rishabh Pant (c & wk), Matthew Breetzke, Nicholas Pooran, Ayush Badoni, Abdul Samad, Himmat Singh, Shahbaz Ahmed, Digvesh Singh Rathi, Avesh Khan, William O’Rourke
Royal Challengers Bengaluru Playing XI: Virat Kohli, Philip Salt, Mayank Agarwal, Liam Livingstone, Jitesh Sharma (c & wk), Romario Shepherd, Krunal Pandya, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Yash Dayal, Nuwan Thushara, Suyash Sharma
