Zaheer Khan Post in Danger for Next Season: The performance of Lucknow Super Giants in IPL 2025 was very poor. The team’s captaincy was in the hands of Rishabh Pant, the most expensive player of the IPL. The team could not make a place in the playoffs in the second consecutive season. After the poor performance of the team, not Captain Pant, but Mentor is seen in danger in place of Zaheer Khan. It has been about 48 hours this season ended. Now the team has started planning the next season. Lucknow team owner Sanjeev Goenka can take a big decision on Mentor Zaheer before the next season.

Not captain Pant, Mentor will fall on Zaheer on the poor performance of Lucknow!

Lucknow had a very poor performance this year. Lucknow won only 6 matches out of 14 matches. He finished 7th on the points table. The head coach of the team was Justin Langer. Zaheer was included in the team as a mentor to support him. According to Cricbuzz, Zaheer signed a one -year contract with the team. However, now there is very little hope that he will be seen with the team in the next season. The team owner Sanjeev Goenka take part in every decision of the franchise. Last year he was angry at KL Rahul, after which he was released by the team. Now Sanjeev can take a big decision on Zaheer after the team’s poor performance. Zaheer can be held responsible for the team’s poor performance this season and the way out. Also, for the last two years, the head coach Langer has not been able to do anything special for the team. His place is also in danger in the team.

Lucknow could not qualify for the second consecutive season playoffs

The performance of Lucknow has been very poor for the last two seasons. Lucknow was not able to qualify for the playoffs even in the year 2024. In the last season, he won 7 out of 14 matches under Rahul’s captaincy. He finished the 7th position. This year also remained his condition. He finished the 7th position. He won just 6 matches this season.

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Rishabh pant angry on zaheer khan: The match between Lucknow Super Giants and Delhi Capitals was played on Tuesday at Ekana Stadium in Lucknow. In this match, Rishabh Pant was sent to bat at number seven. Due to which captain Pant was angry. He also expressed his displeasure with the team’s mentor Zaheer Khan. Whose video went viral on social media. In the video, Pant is seen saying something angry to Zaheer.

Pant was coming to bat in the top-4 in almost every match this season. However, this did not happen in this match. The openers of the Lucknow team made a great start. Aden Markram and Mitchell Marsh together added 87 runs. When Nicholas Puran, who came to bat at number three, was dismissed in the 12th over, everyone hoped that Pant would come to bat, but was sent to Abdul Samad at number four. After this, Samad and Marsh also fell. Still Pant was sent to bat. David Miller and Ayush Badoni also got a chance to bat first. Pant was sent to bat in the 20th over. Where he got to play only two balls. He could not score a single run. Mukesh Kumar bowled him on the last ball of the over.

Video of Pant-Zaheer’s conversation went viral

It can be seen in the video that Pant was talking to Zaheer very angry. On this, Suresh Raina said that there will be talk between Pant and Zaheer about his batting position. He said that it seems that Pant is saying that I told you, send me inside. At the same time, Anil Kumble said on Star Sports that the way Pant is looking disappointed, it is clear that it has gone wrong with him. Perhaps he wanted to bat above.

Embarassing from pant https://t.co/pstn3lkscf pic.twitter.com/snbpkwaiwl

– Sᴜɢᴀʀ (@sugar_sai_gill) April 22, 2025

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Zaheer khan on pitch: Punjab Kings on Tuesday registered a big win by 8 wickets against Lucknow Super Giants captained by Rishabh Pant. The match was played at the Ekana International Cricket Stadium in Lucknow, which is the home ground of the LSG team. Lucknow team mentor Zaheer Khan is not happy with the pitch of his home ground, he gave a big statement about it after the match.

The 3 wickets of Lucknow Super Giants, including the captain, fell for just 35 runs. Nicholas Puran (44) and Ayush Badoni (41) played a good innings for the team, with the help of which the team reached the score of 171. However, Punjab Kings did not find any difficulty in achieving this goal. The team won by 8 wickets by achieving the target in 16.2 overs. Prabhasimran Singh scored 69 runs, for which he was voted the best player of the match. Shreyas Iyer scored an unbeaten 52 runs. After the match, Zaheer Khan said that it seemed as if the curator was from Punjab.

Zaheer Khan is unhappy with the pitch

Zaheer Khan said after the match that it was also a matter of disappointment that this match folded on the home ground. It has been seen in the IPL how teams try to benefit a little on their home ground. But here (Ekana Stadium) pitch curator was not thinking so. It seemed that the pitch curator belongs to Punjab. Of course, Zaheer Khan laughed a little by speaking this, but it was also showing his anger.

Zaheer Khan Said, “You’ve seen teams have a home advantage in the ipl. The currector is not thought that it’s a home game, it looked like it was a Punjabb curator out here in lucknow”. pic.twitter.com/61yq5cqmhi

– Mufaddal Vohra (@Mufaddal_vohra) April 2, 2025

Match to be held at Ekana Stadium

• April 4- LSG vs Mi
• April 12- LSG vs GT
• April 14- LSG vs CSK
• April 22- LSG vs DC
• May 9 – LSG vs RCB
• May 18 – LSG vs SRH