Sanjiv Goenka Breaks Silence On LSG’s IPL 2025 Exit, Posts Intriguing Picture With Rishabh Pant | Cricket News-OxBig News Network

Lucknow Super Giants proprietor Sanjiv Goenka had huge expectations from his franchise, particularly after he managed to convey a marquee participant like Rishabh Pant to the group. LSG had a headline-making mega public sale final yr that noticed them rope within the wicket-keeper batter for a record-breaking price of INR 27 crore. Despite possessing a batting unit comprising of prime gamers like Nicholas Pooran, Mitchell Marsh, Aiden Markram, Rishabh Pant, David Miller, and so on. the franchise could not end within the final 4.

LSG had a glimmer of hope of reaching the knockouts however the defeat in opposition to Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) on Monday put them out of competition. As chatter across the franchise’s future plans, particularly on the subject of skipper Rishabh Pant, floods social media, proprietor Sanjiv Goenka poured his coronary heart out, highlighting his learnings from the marketing campaign.

“It’s been a difficult second half of the season, however there’s a lot to take coronary heart in. The spirit, the hassle, and the moments of excellence give us quite a bit to construct on. Two video games stay. Let’s play with delight and end sturdy. #LSGvsSRH,” Goenka wrote on X (previously Twitter).

It’s been a difficult second half of the season, however there’s a lot to take coronary heart in. The spirit, the hassle, and the moments of excellence give us quite a bit to construct on. Two video games stay. Let’s play with delight and end sturdy. #LSGvsSRH pic.twitter.com/gFzyddlnMn

— Dr. Sanjiv Goenka (@DrSanjivGoenka) May 20, 2025

The put up additionally got here with an image that confirmed Goenka standing whereas resting his arms on Pant’s shoulders. Some of the opposite gamers from the group will be seen sitting round Pant within the image.

After the defeat in opposition to the Sunrisers, Pant highlighted the group’s injury-plauged bowling unit as the most important cause behind the poor present this season. 

“We knew we had gaps to fill due to accidents. As a group we had determined to not discuss it. But it turned to shut the gaps. The method we deliberate the public sale, if we might have had the identical bowling, the story would have been completely different. Sometimes issues go your method, generally they do not. We take delight in the way in which we performed and can have a look at the positives,” Pant had mentioned after the sport.