'Our batting is letting us down': Pant after 5th defeat in 7 matches

NEW DELHI: Lucknow Super Giants skipper Rishabh Pant admitted that his team’s batting illness is becoming the biggest interest aft they suffered their 5th decision successful 7 matches, a 40-run nonaccomplishment to Rajasthan Royals successful IPL 2026.“I deliberation it is hard to explain. Like it's decidedly our batting is letting america down, but astatine the aforesaid time, we are disappointed arsenic a team, arsenic a group, but astatine the aforesaid time, you've got to support uncovering ways. You person to look for answers inside, not outside, but that's however it is arsenic of now," said Pant aft the defeat.

"See, decidedly we could person taken immoderate clip portion batting and astatine the aforesaid time, you know, not making immoderate excuse retired there, like, you know, including myself successful that, similar we could person taken it a small deeper due to the fact that I deliberation the bowlers did a fantastic job, particularly aft the past game.

As a batting group, we request to enactment our manus up and effort to decorativeness that occupation for the bowlers also. "There is inactive a batch we privation to look astatine the affirmative side, you know. We each cognize it's disappointing for america arsenic a team, but you know, we person to support our caput precocious and look for answers wrong and we surely cognize that we person capable firepower successful our bowling and batting and we tin inactive crook it around. That's what I judge in."Pant’s comments came aft different top-order nonaccomplishment saw LSG illness to 119 portion chasing 160.

Three of the apical 4 batters, including Pant himself, were dismissed for ducks wrong the archetypal 3 overs, putting the pursuit successful disarray.Earlier, Ravindra Jadeja’s unbeaten 43 disconnected 29 balls guided Rajasthan Royals to 159/6 connected a tricky surface, aft LSG opted to field. Jadeja aboriginal besides played a cardinal relation successful breaking the pursuit by removing Nicholas Pooran.Mitchell Marsh

’s warring 55 was the lone agleam spot for LSG, portion

Jofra Archer

(3/20) and Nandre Burger (2/27) led the Rajasthan bowling attack. Jadeja and Shubham Dubey’s precocious concern ensured RR finished powerfully and moved to 2nd successful the table, portion LSG slipped further down with conscionable 2 wins from 7 games.