Punjab Kings brutally trolled Lucknow Super Giants skipper Rishabh Pant following their win in an IPL 2025 match on Tuesday.
Punjab Kings (PBKS) brutally trolled Rishabh Pant following their eight-wicket win over Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) in their IPL 2025 match in Lucknow on Tuesday. “𝐓𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 toh auction mein hi khatam ho gayi thi,” Punjab Kings posted on “X” along with a short video of their skipper Shreyas Iyer.
To add context, Punjab Kings had acquired Shreyas Iyer for a whopping amount of INR 26.75 crore at the IPL 2025 mega auction last year.
That made him the most expensive player in IPL history, but that lasted only a few minutes. Lucknow Super Giants snapped up Rishabh Pant for INR 27 crore later during the auction.
There were high expectations that Punjab Kings would bid for Rishabh Pant at the IPL 2025 mega auction. However, that wasn’t the case as the eventually went for Shreyas Iyer, who led Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) to the IPL title last year. “I had only one tension, and that was Punjab Kings,” Rishabh Pant, who now captains Lucknow Super Giants, had said on Star Sports after the auction last year.
Punjab Kings also shared a post regarding Glenn Maxwell, who had endured a mediocre IPL 2024 with Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB). Punjab Kings acquired the Australian for INR 4.2 crore. Maxwell finished with figures of 1/22 on Tuesday.
Lucknow Super Giants skipper Rishabh Pant and his Punjab Kings counterpart Shreyas Iyer have had contrasting starts to IPL 2025 as far as their batting is concerned. Rishabh Pant has endured scores of 0, 15 and 2 in his team’s first three matches.
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On the other hand, Shreyas Iyer scored an unbeaten 97 against Gujarat Titans. He followed it up with an unbeaten 52 against Lucknow Super Giants on Tuesday.
The win took Punjab Kings to second place with four points from two matches. They have the same points as league leaders Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB), with only the Net Run-Rate separating the two sides. Lucknow Super Giants, on the other hand, are in sixth place with two points from three matches.
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