By Admin 
In the last match of the league stage in IPL 2025, Royal Challengers Bangalore defeated Lucknow Super Giants by 6 wickets and confirmed their place in qualifier-1. His competition is today, on 29 May with Punjab Kings (Pbks vs RCB Qualifier-1). In that last match, Digvesh Rathi tried to dismiss Jitesh Sharma under Mankading, after which he appealed and the verdict went to the third umpire. Although he was not out, but during this time Lucknow captain Rishabh Pant withdrew that appeal. It had two sides, one who was against Digvesh and the other in support of him. Now R Ashwin’s big statement has come on this, he has criticized Rishabh Pant’s decision.
What did Ashwin say
Ashwin said on YouTube channel, ‘If Jitesh Sharma was out of the crease before the bowler was in the delivery straight, he could be given out. The bowler’s appeal was correct. Digvesh landed the front foot and Jitesh was in the crease. So those outs were not given but what Rishabh Pant did was wrong. The captain’s job is to support his player, but he rejected his appeal in front of crores of people. This is derogatory. The job of a captain is to support your player, not to let him down.
Ashwin also explained his example during this time. He said that when he was in Punjab Kings and Jose Butler was dismissed like this. Then when he went to Delhi, Ricky Ponting told him that we do not want you to appeal like this now. Ashwin said, “Yes, this is right, you can already speak your player like this.”