Rishabh Pant Breaks Silence On Post Claiming LSG Will Sack The Rs 27 Crore Star After Team Fails To Enter Playoffs

Rishabh Pant’s IPL 2025 marketing campaign has been forgettable to say the least. He was picked on the IPL 2025 public sale by the Sanjiv Goenka-owned Lucknow Super Giants for Rs 27 crore – the best any franchise has paid for a participant within the event’s historical past. But the star wicketkeeper-batter had his poorest IPL ever as he scored simply 135 in 12 matches with a median of 12.27. LSG even did not qualify for the IPL 2025 playoffs. 

In the midst of this, a journalist posted on X: “Breaking News: LSG Most Likely To Release Rishabh Pant Ahead Of IPL 2026. LSG Management Feels 27 Crore Is Too Much.”

Pant has reacted strongly to the statement. 

“I understand fake News gives more traction To content but let’s not built everything around it . Little sense  and credible news will help more rather making fake news with  agenda . Thanks have a good day . Let’s be  responsible and  sensible what we put out on social media,” Pant stated in response to the submit.

Lucknow Super Giants proprietor Sanjiv Goenka had massive expectations from his franchise, particularly after he managed to deliver a marquee participant like Rishabh Pant to the group. LSG had a headline-making mega public sale final yr that noticed them rope within the wicket-keeper batter for a record-breaking charge of INR 27 crore. Despite possessing a batting unit comprising of high gamers like Nicholas Pooran, Mitchell Marsh, Aiden Markram, Rishabh Pant, David Miller, and so on. the franchise could not end within the final 4.

LSG had a glimmer of hope of reaching the knockouts however the defeat towards Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) on Monday put them out of competition. As chatter across the franchise’s future plans, particularly as regards to skipper Rishabh Pant, floods social media, proprietor Sanjiv Goenka poured his coronary heart out, highlighting his learnings from the marketing campaign.

“It’s been a challenging second half of the season, but there’s much to take heart in. The spirit, the effort, and the moments of excellence give us a lot to build on. Two games remain. Let’s play with pride and finish strong. #LSGvsSRH,” Goenka wrote on X (previously Twitter).