Jaipur: The current IPL season (IPL 2026) has not gone well for Rishabh Pant. The team with the most expensive cricketer in the IPL has long since been eliminated from the play-off race, and Panth himself has not got many runs. Pant’s vice-captaincy of the national Test team came amid poor form, and he also lost his place in the India One team for the Afghanistan series. A few hours after joining the national team, Panth owns the team Lucknow Super Giants took the field against Rajasthan Royals (RR vs LSG). And Rishabh gave a strange interview at the toss of this match.

Broadcaster Ian Bishop asked the Lucknow captain about his team following the rules of the match that day. Panth said in the toss that his team is entering the field without Mohammed Shami and Aden Markram. But when he was later asked about the reason for Shami’s absence, Pant could not give a clear answer. Although he was repeatedly asked about not playing Shamir, Panth kept replying somewhat nonchalantly with a simple yes, no, Shami is not playing.

Such an incident before IPL Why, I doubt if a match has ever been seen. Panth was quite unprepared to answer a very simple and routine question. In today’s age of social media nothing goes unnoticed. Naturally, Panth’s strange behavior and toss-time conversation went viral as soon as it spread on social media. Netizens were surprised by Panth’s behavior. Panth also had to suffer some trolling on social media.

Talking about today’s match, once again the match was disappointing for Lucknow. They have to lose this match despite getting 220 runs on the board. Rajasthan Royals won the match with five balls and seven wickets on the back of Vaibhav Suryavanshi’s innings of 93 runs.





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