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Rishabh Pant will play for Lucknow Super Giants in IPL 2025.
India’s star wicketkeeper batsman Rishabh Pant, who was playing for Delhi Capitals in the IPL till last season, will be seen playing for Lucknow Super Giants this season. After the two-day mega auction in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Delhi Capitals owner Parth Jindal made a big statement about Rishabh Pant and told why Pant left Delhi Capitals.
Parth has now told what is the real reason for Pant’s departure from Delhi Capitals. When Parth was asked how he felt when Pant’s price reached Rs 27 crore, he replied, ‘I think we lost Rishabh only when we did not retain him. We have to be honest with ourselves and not kid ourselves that we could have got him back in the auction.
If we had bought Rishabh at that money, we would have completely ruined the Delhi Capitals auction. Rishabh Pant would have been a different proposition for 18 crores and a completely different proposition for 27 crores. Without fooling myself or anyone else, I would like to say that we lost Rishabh only when we did not retain him.
Rishabh Pant himself decided that I do not want to stay here – Parth Jindal
Boria Majumdar asked Parth Jindal that Rishabh Pant had written a message that money was not the reason, now you said that we did not retain, so if there was single ownership, would things have been different? On this, Parth Jindal said, ‘No, I don’t think it is a matter of ownership here. We were all on the same page when it came to the ownership group. This decision has been taken together.
We had a lot of discussion with Rishabh about what we expected from him, which we did not get last year or in the years before that. We gave him very honest feedback. Me and Kiran… GMR and JSW group are one family. We gave him feedback, and he didn’t take it the way we expected. And yes… then he took an emotional decision, he has grown up in this franchise.
He was a young boy when he started, Delhi Daredevils and Kiran gave him his first chance. I joined this franchise later and after that my relationship with Pant became very special. Rishabh himself decided that he does not want to stay here. Kiran and I tried hard to stop him but he decided he wanted to go in a different direction, which we respected.
I had told Rishabh that we will not go after you in the auction, but then in the auction I followed my heart, we tried to bring him back, Kiran told me that we will see the rest later, let’s bring him now. , But then the price increased too much and we had to pull out, it has nothing to do with ownership.
