"Rishabh Pant is the worst in T20s"- LSG captain tarnished after IPL 2025 exit
Published - 20 May 2025, 02:08 PM | Updated - 20 May 2025, 03:01 PM
Former New Zealand cricketer Simon Doull bashed Rishabh Pant for his T20 performances in recent times. Dull thinks that T20 is not the ideal format for Pant compared to ODIs and Test cricket.
Pant’s IPL 2025 season isn’t going well as he has just scored one half-century in 12 matches. Pant made only seven runs in the last game against Sunrisers Hyderabad on May 19.
Simon Doull on Rishabh Pant’s T20 career
Simon Doull stated that the T20 format is the worst format for Rishabh Pant. Pant hasn’t done anything extraordinary, just like his Test career.
LSG skipper set huge standards in his initial IPL season,s but after he took his fireworks in the red-ball format, Pant never looked like same in the T20 format.
"It's his worst format, and they were desperate to go after him. He has had a poor season, and he has not set huge standards, really high standards that he has completely dipped now. He has just been an okay player as far as T20 cricket is concerned," Doull stated on Cricbuzz.
Doull praised Pant for his Test cricket performances, but Pant failed to impress the fans in the T20 format.
"He's an unbelievable Test match player, and sometimes you see the shots he plays in Test, you think that he must be a great T20 player, but his record would not suggest that he is a great T20 player," Doull added.
Rishabh Pant's IPL career
Pant has struggled with his consistency in the IPL. He only managed to score 400+ runs on four occasions out of nine seasons.
Pant made his IPL debut in 2016 with Delhi Capitals. The left-hand batter’s peak performance came in IPL 2018 and 2019, as it was the only instance that he scored 400+ runs in two consecutive IPL seasons.
Pant’s best IPL season came in 2018, when he scored 684 runs in 14 matches. Ultimately, Delhi Capitals handed him the captaincy of their franchise.
In his debut season with Lucknow Super Giants, Pant only managed to score just 135 runs in 12 matches with a strike-rate of 100.
Rishabh Pant’s T20I career
The left-hand batter has failed to impress in the T20I format as he scored just 1209 runs in 76 matches with an average of just 23.25 at the International level.
Pant was in the T20I World Cup winning squad, but now he is not in the current squad of the India T20I team.
Rishabh got many opportunities at multiple positions in T20I cricket, but failed to prove himself. The LSG skipper was in the Sri Lanka tour last year but after that he hasn’t played a single T20I.
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