Rishabh Pant Salary Cut: Indian cricketer Rishabh Pant, who was once recognized as a star cricketer, is in the news these days. The news of Rishabh Pant’s salary cut in IPL this year is coming out rapidly. Pant will definitely play IPL for Delhi Capitals in the year 2027 but his salary has been directly halved. Now veteran businessman Harsh Goenka has also taken a dig on this.

Harsh Goenak took a dig at Pant
After the news of Rishabh Pant’s salary cut came out, famous industrialist Harsh Goenka made fun of the cricketer on this matter. By posting on his social media platform, he has compared Rishabh’s salary cut with corporate culture. In his post he has described IPL auction as worse than corporate.

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Harsh Goenka has made a post through his official X (Twitter) account. In which he wrote, ‘Rishabh Pant: Rs 27 crore – Rs 15 crore. Just imagine, if the CEO of a company is told that “Last year you got Rs 27 crore, but this year considering your performance and market demand, your salary is being reduced to Rs 15 crore.” It is difficult to even think like this in the corporate world.

Rishabh Pant: ₹27 crore ➝ ₹15 crore.

Imagine a CEO being told “Last year we paid you ₹27 crore. This year, based on performance and market demand, we’re cutting it to ₹15 crore.” In corporate life, that’s unthinkable.

In the IPL, it’s an auction that determines what you’re…

— Harsh Goenka (@hvgoenka) June 23, 2026

He further wrote, ‘But in IPL, the price of players is decided by auction and on the basis of that their current value is decided. So thankfully most of us work in the corporate world. On this post of Goenka, mixed reactions are being seen from many social media users. Many people are criticizing Harsh Goenka on this, while others are joining him in making fun of Pant.

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27 crore to 15 crore salary
Let us tell you that in the auction held before IPL 2025, LSG (Lucknow Super Giants) had bought Rishabh Pant for an amount of Rs 27 crore. This was the largest amount ever paid in the history of the league. Not only this, he was also the captain of this team. However, this fee has been reduced due to poor performance under his captaincy. Now Rishabh Pant will again play for Delhi Capitals, for which he is being given a salary of Rs 12 crore. Which is directly less than half of his previous salary.

IPL is such a platform, where everyone from new players to domestic cricket and big international stars play together. If we look at the history of IPL, big names have been seen flopping, something similar happened with Rishabh Pant in IPL 2026. It is also being said that Pant has given a big blow to LSG.

For the last 2 seasons, Rishabh Pant has been taking a salary of Rs 27 crore from Lucknow Super Giants franchise. After the poor performance of Lucknow in IPL 2026, Pant has also resigned from the captaincy of the team. Do you know that each run scored by Rishabh Pant is worth lakhs.

Rishabh Pant proved costly for LSG

Rishabh Pant is the most expensive player in IPL history. He gets an amount of Rs 27 crore from LSG. However, he has proved to be a failure under the pressure of being the most expensive player. In IPL 2026, Pant played 14 matches and scored 312 runs. In this entire season, only one half-century came from his bat.

If the amount received by Pant is divided by the runs scored by him, then the figure will be that Rishabh Pant got one run for each score. This amount comes to Rs 8,65,385. This means that each run of Pant in IPL 2026 has cost LSG Rs 8 lakh 65 thousand 385.

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Pant has left the captaincy

Under the captaincy of Rishabh Pant, Lucknow Super Giants failed to reach the playoffs in IPL 2025 and 2026. LSG was the first team to be eliminated from the playoffs in IPL 2026. Pant has resigned from the captaincy of Lucknow Super Giants a few days ago.

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The points table of IPL 2026 has started indicating which team will go to the playoffs and which one may be out. If we look at the current table (IPL Points Table 2026), Lucknow Super Giants is at the bottom, which has been able to collect only 4 points after playing 8 matches. But here the individual will be discussed, because bad captaincy has ruined some teams. Mumbai Indians is also one of them, whose captain Hardik Pandya has been the constant target of critics. Know here about those 3 teams whose captain can change in IPL 2027.

Mumbai Indians

The management of Mumbai Indians had removed Rohit Sharma and made Hardik Pandya the captain in 2024. Mumbai remained at the bottom of the table in IPL 2024 and now the path to the playoffs in 2026 also seems difficult. MI reached the playoffs in the 2025 season, but did not show any amazing performance. If Mumbai is out of the playoffs even in 2026, it will be the third consecutive season under Hardik’s captaincy when the team will be deprived of the title. Hardik’s personal performance has also not been good. All these things may force MI management to change the captain.

Lucknow Super Giants

There was the mega auction of IPL 2025, when Sanjiv Goenka hinted that he was buying Rishabh Pant for Rs 27 crore. After a disappointing performance in IPL 2025, LSG finished seventh in the points table. The performance level has dropped drastically in IPL 2026, as the team is at the last position in the table. After becoming the captain, the condition of Pant is also the same as that of Hardik Pandya in Mumbai Indians. Pant has been able to score only 458 runs in the 22 matches played so far in the 2025 and 2026 seasons.

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Kolkata Knight Riders

Last season, Kolkata Knight Riders had no option but to hand over the captaincy to Ajinkya Rahane. Rahane performed well individually and scored 390 runs in the 2025 season. Not only has his individual performance dropped in IPL 2026, but the KKR team is in the same table as it was last season. It can be understood that the Kolkata team has suffered a setback due to the absence of three main fast bowlers, but not having a single win in the first six matches of the season raises questions on Rahane’s captaincy. However, after that Kolkata has won 2 consecutive matches.

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Rishabh pant century: Rishabh Pant has scored another century of his IPL career. He has completed a century in 54 balls in 54 balls in the match against Royal Challengers, with this he has become the fastest century for LSG. This is Pant’s second century in the Indian Premier League, which he had to wait for 2574 days long. Pant hit 10 fours and 6 skyscraper sixes in his innings till the century completed the century.

Prior to the match against RCB, Rishabh Pant scored just 151 runs in 12 innings. In the match against Bengaluru, Pant came to bat on number-3. He, along with Mitchell Marsh, did a great partnership of 152 runs. He then added 49 runs with Nicholas Puran. Pant returned unbeaten after scoring 118 runs in 61 balls, in this innings he hit 11 fours and 8 sixes.

Century came after 2574 days

Rishabh Pant’s first century in IPL came against Sunrisers Hyderabad on the date of 10 May 2018. Now 2574 days have passed for those things and now after waiting for about 7 years, Pant has been able to score a century in the Indian Premier League. This century is also special because Pant’s highest score was 63 runs in IPL 2025 before the match against RCB and so far he had only put only one fifty in the season.

The fastest century for LSG

Till now, KL Rahul’s name was the record of scoring the fastest century for LSG, who completed a 56 -ball century in the match against Mumbai Indians in 2023. Now Rishabh Pant has taken this record by scoring a century in 54 balls.

• Rishabh Pant – 54 balls
• KL Rahul – 56 balls
• Marcus Stoinis – 56 balls
• Mitchell Marsh – 56 Ball
• Quinton de Cock – 59 Ball

Lucknow Super Giants, captained by Rishabh Pant, have already been out of the playoff race. Recall that LSG bought Pant for Rs 27 crore in the auction.

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IPL 2025: The performance of Lucknow Super Giants captain Rishabh Pant has been disappointing this season. His team has also not been able to qualify for the playoffs. Sanjeev Goenka owned by Lucknow Super Giants bought him for Rs 27 crore, after which he became the most expensive player in IPL history. He has scored a total of 151 runs in 13 matches played so far, his team also dropped out of the league stage.

Meanwhile, a journalist tweeted that Lucknow management feels that 27 crore is very much for Rishabh Pant, so he can be dropped from the team before 2026. He wrote, “Breaking News, LSG can release Rishabh Pant before IPL 2026. LSG management feels that 27 crore is too much.”

Pant has reacted strongly to this comment. Rishabh Pant wrote on his X account, “I understand that fake news promotes the content more, but we should not make everything around it. Less sensible and reliable news will help more than the agenda.

I undress fake news more traction to content but let’s not buy everything Everything Around it. Little Sense and Credible News will help more raather making fake news with ageda. Thanks have a good day. Let’s be responsible and sensible what we put out on social media

– Rishabh pant (@rishabhpant17) May 22, 2025

Lucknow defeated Gujarat

Rishabh Pant made this tweet before the match against Gujarat Titans. In this match, Lucknow batting first scored a huge score of 235 runs. In response, Gujarat could only score 202 runs. LSG won this match by 33 runs, although the team has already been out of the playoff race.

Yograj singh on rishabh pant: How bad can a player of IPL be for a player, he should ask Rishabh Pant. Pant, who was sold for Rs 27 crore in the mega auction, has scored just 151 runs in 13 matches in IPL 2025. Pant’s captaincy is also being criticized because Lucknow has already been out of the playoffs. Now Yuvraj Singh Father of veteran cricketer Yuvraj Singh, Yograj Singh made a big statement on Pant’s flaws and said that he will fix the LSG captain in 5 minutes.

Pant is fine in 5 minutes …

In an interview to the news agency IANS, Yograj Singh said that the problem of Rishabh Pant can be cured in 5 minutes. He said, “His head is not stable and his left shoulder is very open. Just a little improvement and Pant will once again start performing his best.” So far, Rishabh Pant has been able to score 151 runs throughout the season, while in the last 6 innings, only 48 runs have been scored from his bat.

His highest score in IPL 2025 has been 63 runs, which he made against Chennai Super Kings. This was his only half -century innings in his season. Pant’s strike rate has also been around 100 this season. In T20 cricket, this strike rate is placed in the category of bad.

Amidst this poor performance, a rumor raised that Lucknow Super Giants have dismissed Rishabh Pant, but Pant has termed such rumors on social media as false. Let us tell you that the speculation of giving a new captain to India’s Test team has been in full swing. Rishabh Pant’s name has also been included in the captaincy race, but according to some media reports, Shubman Gill’s name can be approved for captaincy.

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Lsg owner sanjeev goenka: The biggest flop, laggard, 27 crores went waste, what people did not say for Rishabh Pant. The season of IPL 2025 has been very bad for Pant, in which he has been able to score only 135 runs in 11 innings so far. His poor form is also going on in the match against SRH, in which he has been dismissed for just 7 runs. The IPL 2025 data has proved an old prediction of Sanjeev Goenka (LSG Owner Sanjiv Goenka).

Sanjeev Goenka predicted after purchasing Rishabh Pant for Rs 27 crore in the mega auction. He said, “I believe that Pant will continue to play for the next 12-15 years. People say that Mumbai Indians and Chennai Super Kings have achieved a lot of success. I also believe that Rohit Sharma and MS Dhoni have been the best players and captains. After 10 years, people will say, Mahi, Rohit and Rishabh.”

Prophecy proved to be false

Rishabh Pant got the captaincy of Lucknow Super Giants this time. His personal performance is not only fading but he has not been able to perform amazing as a captain. Where Sanjeev Goenka used to say that after 10 years, Pant must have become a very big superstar player, but this prediction seems to be proved to be false in the first year. It is also difficult for LSG to go to the playoffs.

In IPL, Rishabh Pant has played for Delhi Capitals and Lucknow Super Giants. If we look at his captaincy records before the match against SRH, he captained Delhi Capitals in 43 matches, of which his team was victorious 23 times. At the same time, in IPL 2025, he has captained LSG in 11 matches so far, out of which his team has been able to register only 5 wins.

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Ms dhoni vs rishabh pant: Rishabh Pant has got a huge responsibility in IPL 2025, in which he is seen failing. The captaincy of Lucknow Super Giants and the pressure of being the most expensive player in IPL history has been buried. On the one hand, the journey of Lucknow team has been full of ups and downs in the current season, on the other hand their personal performance has not been special. He is often compared to MS Dhoni for his wicketkeeping and impeccable batting style, IPL 2025 data has exposed Rishabh Pant’s pole, know how?

Dhoni-want is not equal

Whenever MS Dhoni takes DRS, the umpire has to change his decision on most occasions. For this reason, people have also started calling DRS ‘Dhoni Review System’. Rishabh Pant, who is called his successor, has taken 8 DRS so far in IPL 2025, but 7 of them has proved to be wrong. In a recent match, Pant also had a huge blunder because he himself took DRS, later it was found that the impact of the ball and pad was far from the stump line.

Personal performance is also very bad

Rishabh Pant’s personal performance in IPL 2025 has also been very poor. Although Dhoni has not been able to score much runs, but even at the age of 43, he has scored 140 runs in 9 matches. On the other hand, Rishabh Pant is still young, at the peak of his career, despite this, in IPL 2025, his bat has scored only 106 runs in 10 matches.

Not only this, in terms of total average, Rishabh Pant seems to stand far away from Dhoni. Dhoni’s average in IPL is more than 38, while Pant has scored an average of 33.6 in the Indian Premier League so far. CSK is currently struggling under Dhoni’s captaincy and is in the last place in the points table, on the other hand Lucknow is at sixth position.

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Ekana stadium pitch report: The match number 13 of the Indian Premier League 2025 will be played between Lucknow Super Giants and Punjab Kings at Ikana International Cricket Stadium in Lucknow today (1 April). As captain Rishabh Pant and Shreyas Iyer will be face to face. Let us know in which area the pitch of Ekana Stadium will be helpful? Who will benefit here in bowlers or batsmen? Know what the captain who win the toss should decide.

Lucknow Super Giants won 1 of the last 2 matches and 1 have lost. The team is at number three in the points table. This is the second match of Punjab Kings, he defeated Gujarat Titans by 11 runs in the first match. The team is at number 5.

Lucknow vs Punjab Head to Head

A total of 4 matches have been played in the IPL between Lucknow Super Giants and Punjab Kings. Lucknow’s record against Punjab is good. He has won 3 out of 4 matches while Punjab has defeated Lucknow only 1 time. Lucknow’s biggest score in IPL against Punjab Kings is 257 and the shortest score is 159. Lucknow Super Giants have the largest total of 201 against Punjab and the shortest score is 133.

Pitch report of Ekana International Cricket Stadium

The pitch of Ekana Stadium is of red soil. This ground is quite big. Here the bowlers will get more help than the batsmen at the Ekana International Cricket Stadium here. The pitch is not such that the score of 200 can be made very comfortably. Here spinners will get a turn which will also present a challenge for the batsmen in the middle order. Therefore, you have to take a plan to score more runs in the powerplay and play in the middle order.

What should be decided when winning the toss at Ekana Stadium?

The team, who batting and 6 times before has won 7 of the 14 IPL matches played so far at the Ekana Stadium. The toss winning team has won 8 times here, so the toss is important. The toss winning team should decide to bowl first.

How will the weather be in Lucknow today?

Lucknow Super Giants vs. Punjab Kings match is equal to the possibility of rain. Clouds may come, but there will be no concern about the match. The temperature will run to 28 degrees Celsius in the evening. Winds will run at a speed of moisture 21 percent and 6 kilometers per hour.