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Are Rishabh Pant’s captaincy days numbered? ‘LSG will consider a reset,’ says Tom Moody

Are Rishabh Pant’s captaincy days numbered? ‘LSG will consider a reset,’ says Tom Moody

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3 min readMay 24, 2026 09:54 AM IST Lucknow Super Giants concluded their IPL 2026 season on Saturday night with another dismal defeat, offering Punjab Kings a late shot at Playoffs qualification. The 10th defeat of the season meant Rishabh Pant’s side finished at the bottom of the standings, with the captain’s future at the franchise coming under the scanner. In 28 matches since last season, Pant has overseen 18 defeats with Lucknow failing to make the Playoffs both times. The poor run of results has also coincided with Pant’s woeful form with the bat, aggregating only 312 runs at 28.36 this season. Lucknow director of cricket Tom Moody admitted that the slew of poor results will mean that the franchise will consider a change of guard in leadership terms before next season. ALSO READ | Why Pant’s ‘f***ing good team’ remark sums up his and LSG’s miserable IPL “From a captaincy point of view, you know, he’s found it challenging, obviously, and the results reflect that,” Moody said at the press conference after the …

Sanjiv Goenka admits LSG’s auction mistakes, backs Rishabh Pant amid criticism

Sanjiv Goenka admits LSG’s auction mistakes, backs Rishabh Pant amid criticism

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3 min readMar 22, 2026 06:38 PM IST After two middling seasons of the Indian Premier League, where Lucknow Super Giants failed to qualify for the playoffs and finished seventh in consecutive years in 2024 and 2025, franchise owner Sanjiv Goenka candidly accepted that the performance of the team was “bad” and that there were no excuses for it. “Our last two seasons weren’t good. Qualification isn’t the only objective. They were poor. We finished seventh in both seasons. No excuses… a bad performance is a bad performance. Having said that, mistakes happen, but you have to learn from them and avoid repeating them,” said Goenka in an interaction with Sports Tak. “Last year, our bowlers… our main pacers were all injured… all at the same time. We didn’t plan the auction well for their backups. We didn’t do proper homework about which players are injury-prone, how to track their rehab,” he added. ‘Great confidence in Rishabh’ Goenka also opened up about the criticism and online trolling that he and his team faced following the …