Rishabh Pant joined Lucknow Tremendous Giants for IPL 2025© AFP
There was plenty of chatter concerning the captaincy place in Lucknow Tremendous Giants for IPL 2025. Nicholas Pooran was being thought-about the front-runner after he was retained for Rs 21 crore forward of the public sale however with the franchise paying a record-breaking Rs 27 crore for Rishabh Pant, the state of affairs has develop into a bit difficult. A latest social media publish from the franchise on X (previously Twitter) led to additional intrigue among the many cricket followers. The publish contained a reference to the Bollywood film “Hum Saath Saath Hain” with Pooran being known as ‘ghar ke mukhiya’ (head of the family). Later within the video, Pant was known as somebody who has an distinctive model and aura.
A household that wins collectively stays collectivelypic.twitter.com/F3dw62TLNg
— Lucknow Tremendous Giants (@LucknowIPL) November 26, 2024
The social media publish rapidly turned viral on social media and plenty of followers have been of the opinion that it clearly implied that Pooran will probably be captaining the facet within the upcoming competitors.
However pal, Should not it’s the opposite manner spherical to encourage household to win ?
— CricFan (@DeepakSett) November 26, 2024
The 2-day IPL 2025 Mega Public sale witnessed many unprecedented moments together with record-breaking Rs 27 crore signing of Rishabh Pant by Lucknow Tremendous Giants to the 13-year-old Vaibhav Suryavanshi changing into the youngest participant to be signed within the match.
Agar Pant ko caltain nahi banaya toh bhool jao
— Arun Pandey (@arundvd1) November 26, 2024
Rajasthan Royals acquired the providers of {the teenager} for Rs 1.10 crore after profitable the bidding struggle towards Delhi Capitals.
Forward of the 2025 season of the IPL, the ten groups spent Rs 639.15 crore to signal 182 gamers within the public sale together with 62 abroad.
Other than Pant, Shreyas Iyer and Venkatesh Iyer received astronomical offers of Rs 26.75 crore and Rs 23.75 crore by Punjab Kings and Kolkata Knight Riders, respectively.
Amongst others, Arshdeep Singh and Yuzvendra Chahal received the similar offers of Rs 18 crore every from Punjab Kings whereas Jos Buttler was acquired by Gujarat Titans for Rs 15.75 crore to characteristic within the prime buys of the public sale.
(With IANS inputs)
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