IPL 2025: Rishabh Pant has an emergency meeting with DC Owner Parth Jindal before landing in Chennai

Indian wicketkeeper-batter Rishabh Pant has been quite busy lately. After playing in the first game of the ongoing Duleep Trophy 2024, Pant fulfilled captain’s duty for the Delhi Capitals (DC) and then joined the Indian players in flight for the upcoming Test series against Bangladesh.

The talented wicketkeeper-batter arrived in Chennai on Friday, September 13, along with Jasprit Bumrah, KL Rahul, and others. While Rohit Sharma landed in Chennai separately, Virat Kohli also arrived directly from London, where he was residing with his family for over six months.

Rishabh Pant balances IPL duties and national commitments

Well, the preparations for the upcoming edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL) are already underway behind the scenes, with the IPL 2025 mega auction expected to be held in December-January.

Presently, the IPL franchises are busy finalizing their retentions. As all teams set to submit their list of retained and released players to the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) soon, Pant headed to JSW Center BKC to meet the Delhi Capitals (DC) owners to finalize the players they want to retain ahead of the IPL 2025 mega auction.

Since the left-handed batter would be busy with national assignments with the Bangladesh Tests followed by the New Zealand series and the Australia tour, the DC captain made sure to complete his IPL task.

Rishabh Pant spotted at JSW Center amid busy schedule

In the viral video, Pant was spotted at JSW Center to meet DC co-owner Parth Jindal. There were rumors that Pant was leaving the Delhi franchise after Ricky Ponting was ousted as head coach, as the Indian star shares a great relationship with the Australian legend.

But his meeting with the DC co-owner hinted that the reports were just rumors. Viral Bhayani posted a reel on his Instagram profile. It showed Pant's arrival at the JSW Center in BKC ahead of the IPL 2025 retention announcement.

He mentioned in the reel that “Rishabh Pant was spotted at JSW Center BKC. Cricketer Rishabh Pant was spotted at JSW Center to meet Mr. Parth Jindal, co-owner of Delhi Capitals.”

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Notably, Pant has smashed a fifty in the ongoing Duleep Trophy 2024 to announce his return to red-ball cricket, and he would love to continue his form in the upcoming two-match Test series against Bangladesh at home.

Ricky Ponting hails Rishabh Pant

This series will kick off India’s busy home season. Earlier, Ponting called Pant a "serious cricketer," and even the Aussie great compared the DC skipper’s numbers to the legendary MS Dhoni, ahead of the upcoming Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2024-25 starting November 22 in Perth, between India and Australia.

Ponting was quoted as saying by Sky Sports: “Pant must have 4 or 5 Test hundreds already, and he's got about nine 90s as well. [MS] Dhoni played for 120 Tests (90) and made 3 or 4 hundreds (6); this is how good this guy (Pant) is. He's a serious cricketer.”