The Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) are not just losing games anymore, they are making a mess of them. The defeat to Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) was not unlucky. It was self-inflicted. You don’t have a side at 93/7 and still end up defending a total in a Super Over (that too, just 1 run) unless something has gone badly wrong on the field. Rishabh Pant’s LSG have been highly disappointing so far.
This is a team that looks confused every time the camera cuts to the dugout. Plans change ball to ball. Roles change match to match. And when the pressure hits, the decisions fall apart. Sitting at the bottom of the IPL 2026 points table, LSG have lost six of their eight games and are virtually out of the competition.
Rishabh Pant feeling captaincy pressure?
Naturally, the captain will bear the criticism and that is what’s happening. Former IPL coach Wasim Jaffer has openly suggested a change. He wants South Africa’s Aiden Markram to take charge from Pant so that the southpaw can free himself from the captaincy burden
“LSG looks completely out of place right now, it’s hard to even know what to expect from them. If I were in that dugout, the first thing I would do is make Aiden Markram the captain. I would open with Markram and Mitchell Marsh. At number three, Nicholas Pooran, then Rishabh Pant at four, and Ayush Badoni at five. At number six, Abdul Samad, and at seven, Mukul Choudhary. That would be my top seven, and I would go with this batting order,” Jaffer, a former IPL coach and commentator, said on his YouTube channel.
Rishabh Pant record in IPL
CategoryInnsRunsHSAveSR100/504s6sNot as captain682079128*35.23151.971/12183103As captain631663118*31.98139.981/815473“I feel a player like Rishabh Pant should play purely as a player. You get the best out of him when you free him up and tell him to just go out and play and win matches on his own. Don’t burden him with captaincy. I think Aiden Markram is a better captain. He has led South Africa very successfully, he is mentally strong, very composed, and I think he can get the best out of the other players. But this doesn’t look like something that will actually happen. This is just my suggestion, but if I were there, that’s what I would do,” Jaffer added.
Rishabh Pant’s IPL captaincy record
PlayerMatWonLostTiedW/L%W%LOverall65313220.9647.6949.23At LSG2281310.61036.3659.09Super Over are considered as tiedLSG told to replace Rishabh Pant with Aiden Markram as captain in IPL 2026 Inside Sport India.
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