Rishabh Pant’s dismal Indian Premier League (IPL) season continued because the Lucknow Tremendous Giants (LSG) captain scored a 17-ball 18 in opposition to Punjab Kings on the HPCA Stadium in Dharamsala on Sunday.
LSG proprietor Sanjiv Goenka couldn’t conceal his disappointment after Rishabh Pant’s failure and seemed visibly upset.
Pant stepped down the observe, made room, and threw the kitchen sink at it, however by doing so, he misplaced his form. The bat flew off his hand and landed close to the sq. leg umpire, whereas the ball flew in direction of the deep level area, the place Shashank Singh took a cushty catch. Azmatullah Omarzai received the wicket for Punjab.
Pant has endured a disappointing run with the bat, registering six single-digit scores for a complete of 128 runs in 11 matches with a below-par strike charge of 99.22. His solely noteworthy knock this season has been a 63 in opposition to Chennai Tremendous Kings. Of the 70 batters who’ve confronted no less than 60 balls this season, solely Pant has a sub-100 strike charge.
Earlier, Punjab Kings produced a superlative batting show, led by Prabhsimran Singh, to submit 236 for 5 in opposition to LSG of their essential IPL match.
Despatched in to bat, Prabhsimran smashed a 48-ball 91 and shared a 78-run stand with skipper Shreyas Iyer (45) to put the muse earlier than Nehal Wadhera (16), Shashank Singh (33), and Marcus Stoinis (15) chipped in to take PBKS to the imposing whole.
For LSG, Akash Maharaj Singh (2/30) and Digvesh Singh Rathi (2/46) took two wickets every, whereas Value Yadav (1/43) accounted for a wicket. Mayank Yadav, in reality, conceded 60 runs in his 4 overs, with out taking a wicket.
The LSG batting unit, which has carried out nicely beneath par after the primary stage of the event, might want to bat out of their skins to chase down the goal. However on the finish of 10 overs, LSG had been reeling at 74 for five.