Indian Premier League season 18 is starting once again, it will start with RCB vs KKR match on 17 May. The final match will be played on 3 June. But before that, Cricket South Africa has given a shock. CSA has asked the players involved in the World Test Championship to come back by 26 May, this will cause losses to 6 teams including Mumbai Indians, RCB, Gujarat Titans, Punjab Kings which are involved in the playoff race.

The final match of the ICC World Test Championship will be played between Australia and South Africa. The title match will be held from 11 to 15 June at Lord’s Cricket Ground. Cricket South Africa has directed its players involved in the squad to come back by 26 May. This is so that the players can get enough time to prepare for the debuts final.

These IPL teams will get a shock

By the way, there are a total of 20 South African players, who are associated with different teams in IPL 2025. But out of these, there are 8 players who are part of the WTC Final Squad. These include 2 players in the Mumbai Indians team.

Corbin Bosch (Mumbai Indians), Ryan Ryyan Ricelton (Mumbai Indians), Vian Mulder (Sunrisers Hyderabad), Marco Jansen (Punjab Kings), Aadan Markram (Lucknow Supergiants), Lungi Engidi (Royal Challengers Bangalore), Kagiso Rabada (Gujarat Titans), and Triston Stabs (Delhi Capitals) The WTC has been included in the final team. Among them, only Sunrisers Hyderabad, who has been out of the playoff race.

We want our players here till 26 May- Head Coach

The final match of IPL 2025 was to be played at the Eden Gardens on 25 May, but it was stopped after 57 matches amidst India Pakistan tension situation. Now the date of its final has been fixed on 3 June, while the WTC final will start only a week later. The players of South Africa were asked to join the team by 26th, so that they could get enough time before leaving for England on May 30.

South Africa team head coach Shukri Konrad said, “This conversation is going on among people with high -paying people, that is, the Director of Cricket Director (Hanok Encway) and Foletessi Moseki (CSA CEO), so they are dealing with it. But as it is, I don’t think we are going to back down. We want our players back on 26th, and hope that we will be like this.”

IPL 2025: All were surprised when Rishabh Pant came to bat for a long time in front of Delhi Capitals, he came to the field to play only 2 balls after Ayush Badoni’s wicket in the last over. On the last ball of the innings, Mukesh Kumar dismissed him for zero. Chasing a target of 160 runs, KL Rahul played an unbeaten innings of 57 runs and Delhi Capitals won the match by 8 wickets.

During this match, a video of Rishabh Pant went viral, in which he is seen angry with his bowler’s decision. He also raised his hand to slap him in a joking manner. This bowler was Digvesh Rathi, who laid a lot of emphasis for a failed review.

Rishabh Pant got angry at Digvesh Rathi

In the 7th over, Digvesh Rathi missed KL Rahul, which started going on his pad. The vigorous appeal was rejected by the umpire, but the bowlers wanted to take a review on it. Captain Rishabh Pant was also not showing interest in using DRS but Digvesh forced him to take it. On seeing it, it was found that the ball was outside the wicket, thus a review of Lucknow deteriorated. Only after this, Rishabh Pant raised his hand to slap Digvesh in a joking manner.

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Apart from this, another video of Rishabh Pant is viral, in which he is getting angry with Digvesh Rathi. From behind the wicket, Pant is shouting and saying that his one is put, not put.

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– Ashwin Patidar (@IAMAPATIDAR) April 22, 2025

Mukesh Kumar became the hero of victory

Mukesh Kumar, who took 4 wickets of Lucknow Super Giants including Rishabh Pant, was adjudged the Player of the Match. He gave 33 runs in his 4 overs spell. Lucknow had set a target of 160 runs to win in front of Delhi.

Delhi Capitals lost their first wicket on a score of 36 as Karun Nair (15), but after that there was a good partnership of 69 runs between Abhishek Poral and KL Rahul. Porel was dismissed for 51 runs in the 12th over, he played 1 six and 5 fours in this innings played in 36 balls. KL Rahul remained unbeaten by scoring 57 runs in 42 balls, in this innings he hit 3 sixes and the same number of fours. Captain Akshar Patel scored 34 runs in 20 balls with the help of 4 sixes and 1 fours.

IPL 2025: In the match played on Tuesday, Punjab Kings defeated Lucknow Super Giants by 8 wickets. Punjab captain Shreyas Iyer won the toss and decided to bowl first. Lucknow Super Giants could not start well on their home ground. The team’s third wicket as Rishabh Pant fell on a score of 35. Pant flopped in the third consecutive match, he was caught out at a score of just 2. After this, he is also being criticized a lot, because he was bought by the team for Rs 27 crore.

Lucknow Super Giants scored 171 runs while batting first. In response, Punjab Kings won by 8 wickets by achieving the target in 16.2 overs. Opener Prabhasimran Singh played a brilliant innings of 69. In this innings played in 34 balls, he hit 3 sixes and 9 fours. Shreyas Iyer scored an unbeaten 52 in 30 balls and Nehal Wadhera scored 43 not out. Lucknow captain Rishabh Pant said after the match that our team was able to score 20 to 25 runs. However, the way Punjab batted, it seemed that if there were 40-50 more, the team would have achieved that goal too.

What did Rishabh Pant say after the match

After the defeat, Lucknow captain Rishabh Pant said, “This score was not enough, we are left behind 20-25 runs. It is a part of the game, it was our first match on the domestic field, so we are still assessing the situation. Surely when you lose the starting wicket, it is always difficult to make a big score. It is a domestic game, it was going to be a little stopping when you were bowling slowly.

Statement Victory
Skipper’s second 5⃣0⃣ this season
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Punjab kings cap off a perfect day #Tataipl , #LSGVPBKS , @PUNJABKINSPL pic.twitter.com/HSRX8kwiy4

– Indianpremierleague (@IPL) April 1, 2025

This was the second win of Punjab Kings under the captaincy of Shreyas Iyer. After winning 2 matches in 2, the team has come second in the points table. At the same time, Lucknow Super Giants have slipped from number three to sixth place. This was the second defeat in the third match of Lucknow.