Rishabh Pant LSG Captain: Rishabh Pant becomes captain of Lucknow Supergiants, breaks a big IPL record

Rishabh Pant has become the captain of the Lucknow Supergiants team. Lucknow Supergiants announced their new captain for IPL 2025. KL Rahul captained Lucknow in the last three seasons but the team released him before this season. The team bet on Rishabh Pant and he was bought at a record-breaking price of Rs 27 crore. Pant has also become the most expensive captain apart from being the most expensive player in IPL history.
'Pant will become the greatest IPL captain'
Lucknow Supergiants team owner Sanjiv Goenka held a press conference with Rishabh Pant and said that this dashing wicketkeeper-batsman will take over the command of the team. Along with this announcement, Sanjiv Goenka claimed that Rishabh Pant will prove to be the greatest captain not only of this team but of the entire IPL. Rishabh Pant's captaincy in IPL 2025 was considered certain. However, he had the challenge of Nicholas Pooran, who has been the captain of West Indies, and his performance has also been strong. But in the end, Pant won the match.
- First with MS Dhoni.
— Johns. (@CricCrazyJohns) January 20, 2025
- Second with KL Rahul.
- Third with Rishabh Pant.
Indian Wicket Keeper batters 🤝 Sanjiv Goenka. pic.twitter.com/73sBCu05ed
Rishabh Pant has a good experience of captaining in IPL. He became the captain of Delhi Capitals in the year 2021. But after 2024, his paths parted from Delhi. After this, he joined the Lucknow team and now his aim will be to make the team a champion.
Lucknow has a fondness for Indian wicketkeepers.
Lucknow Supergiants have maintained their old tradition by making Pant the captain. In fact, Pant is the third Indian wicketkeeper who has been made captain by Sanjeev Goenka's franchise. Before Pant, Dhoni has captained Pune Supergiants. After this, KL Rahul was made the captain.
Lucknow Supergiants Squad
Rishabh Pant, Nicholas Pooran, Ayush Badoni, Ravi Bishnoi, Mayank Yadav, Mohsin Khan, David Miller, Aiden Markram, Mitchell Marsh, Shahbaz Ahmed, Akash Singh, Avesh Khan, Abdul Samad, Aryan Juyal, Akash Deep, Shemar Joseph, Prince Yadav, Yuvraj Chaudhary, Rajvardhan Hangargekar, Arshin Kulkarni, Matthew Breetzke, Himmat Singh, M. Siddharth, Digvesh Singh.