Rishabh Pant, LSG’s 27-crore captain, creates historical past for Lucknow as he finds kind late in IPL 2025

New Delhi:

Lucknow Super Guants skipper Rishabh Pant lastly discovered an innings of nice significance as he slammed an excellent century in his staff’s last league stage match towards Royal Challengers Bengaluru on Tuesday, May 27. After making just one fifty in all the season, and that too a struggling one towards CSK, Pant performed a masterful knock to energy LSG to a powerful whole towards RCB.

Pant hit his solely second IPL hundred and his first since 2018 as he slammed a 54-ball hundred towards RCB. He received to the milestone with a 4 over covers. Pant carried on and smacked 118 runs from 61 balls, laced with 11 fours and eight sixes as he displayed his jaw-dropping strokes across the park. 

Pant registered just a few main milestones for Lucknow Super Giants en path to his hundred.

Pant hits quickest century for LSG

Meanwhile, Pant’s 54-ball hundred is the quickest hundred by an LSG batter. He was trying unstoppable all through his knock. Pant, at his finest, displayed the big variety of strokes that he’s used to as he took down the RCB bowlers for enjoyable. Pant has now additionally turn into the primary LSG batter to hit 100 towards RCB. 

Highest rating by an LSG skipper in IPL

Pant registered the best rating by an LSG skipper within the event. The earlier highest rating for an LSG skipper belonged to KL Rahul, who had KL Rahul, who had made 103.

Lucknow slammed 227/3 led by Pant’s good century. Mitchell Marsh additionally performed a powerful hand as he scored 67 from 37 deliveries. RCB had gained the toss and had opted to bowl first. 

Jitesh is the stand-in captain rather than Rajat Patidar, who will play as an Impact participant resulting from his earlier hand damage that he sustained in RCB’s conflict towards Chennai Super Kings. “We will field first. Looks like a good wicket, we’ll fancy to chase. Rajat Patidar is our impact player. Looking to win and make it into the top 2. Tim David misses out, Liam comes in, so does Thushara, he replaces Ngidi who left the team,” Jitesh stated on the toss.

“We don’t mind batting or bowling first, we did show a glimpse of the potential in our last game, but every match is a learning curve, till the last ball is bowled, we will give our 100 per cent. Few changes – Breetzke is in and Digvesh Rathi is back in,” LSG skipper Rishabh Pant stated on the toss.

Royal Challengers Bengaluru’s Playing XI: Philip Salt, Virat Kohli, Mayank Agarwal, Rajat Patidar, Liam Livingstone, Jitesh Sharma(w/c), Romario Shepherd, Krunal Pandya, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Yash Dayal, Nuwan Thushara

Lucknow Super Giants’ Playing XI: Mitchell Marsh, Matthew Breetzke, Nicholas Pooran, Rishabh Pant(w/c), Ayush Badoni, Abdul Samad, Himmat Singh, Shahbaz Ahmed, Digvesh Singh Rathi, Avesh Khan, William ORourke

Royal Challengers Bengaluru Impact Subs: Suyash Sharma, Rasikh Salam, Manoj Bhandage, Tim Seifert, Swapnil Singh

Lucknow Super Giants Impact Subs – Akash Maharaj Singh, Prince Yadav, Ravi Bishnoi, Arshin Kulkarni, Yuvraj Chaudhary