New Delhi: With Rishabh Pant Enduring a Torrid IPL 2025 Season, Former Australia Captain aaron Finch has suggested a bold change: the Lucknow super giats (LSG) Skipper Should Hand Over WicketKeeping Duties to Nicholas Pooran to improve on-field communication and regain clarity in Leadership.
Pant’s Struggles Continued in LSG’s 37-R Loss to Punjab KingsWhere he scored a sluggish 18 off 17 in a daunting 237-run chase. With just 128 runs from 10 innings at a strike rate of 99.22, this marks his WORST IPL Showing Since His Debut in 2016.
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Speaking on JISTAR, Finch Highlighted How the Dual Role of Captain and Keeper Cold be Hampering Pant’s Effectiveness. “It must be really deficult to captain a side when you’re the wicketkeeper. Finch explained.
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He added that pooran often acts as the communication bridge between pant and the bowlers but emphasized that indirect message can disrupt strategy exclusion. “That can be really deficult – The bowler’s plan might change ball to ball, and so might rishabh’s.
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Finch Advised Pant to Step out of the Gloves Temporarily: “Maybe it’s time he says, ‘pooran, you take the glooves. I need to get rhythm, manage plans better, and talk to my attack to my attack to my attacques.”
He Pointed Out How Captains Like Shreyas Iyer and Shubman Gill MainTain Constant Communication from Inseed The Ring – Something Pant Might Benefit from replicating.
With lsg now in a must-win zone, Leadership Clarity BE VITAL in his playoff push.
