Boxer Chandni Mehra

Price Rs 27 crore, Average 15.1: Rishabh Pant’s awful IPL 2025 continues with another failure

Rishabh Pant’s IPL 2025 rollercoaster continues to tilt downward after another disappointing outing, this time against Rajasthan Royals in Jaipur. Coming off a promising return to form with a 63 against Chennai Super Kings (CSK), expectations were high for the Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) captain.

Poor IPL 2025 continues for Pant, the batter

But he managed just 3 runs off 9 balls before falling to Wanindu Hasaranga in the 8th over — undone by a premeditated reverse sweep that found the edge, sharply caught by Dhruv Jurel. Jurel did a fantastic job in holding out the edge that came quickly to him off Pant’s willow.

Pant’s tournament has been a nightmare so far. In seven innings, he’s managed only 106 runs at an average of 15.14 and a strike rate of 89.08 — unthinkable numbers for a player of his calibre, let alone for the world’s costliest franchise player in T20 history. He’s now been dismissed caught in all seven of his innings, a sign of poor shot selection and mounting pressure.

Rishabh Pant IPL stats

Category IPL career IPL 2025
Matches 210 8
Innings 198 7
Runs 5128 106
Highest Score 128* 63
Average 31.07 15.14
Strike Rate 143.64 98.14
Centuries 2 0
Fifties 26 1
Ducks 10 1
Fours 468 8
Sixes 233 5

The post Price Rs 27 crore, Average 15.1: Rishabh Pant’s awful IPL 2025 continues with another failure appeared first on Inside Sport India.