Ambati Rayudu tells Rishabh Pant: ‘Can’t give any more excuses… take decisions on your own’
Rishabh Pant and his team Lucknow Super Giants were handed another defeat at home in Lucknow by his old IPL side, the Delhi Capitals. The home side made a couple of baffling selection decisions in the game and could only manage to set a target of 159, which Delhi chased down with 13 balls remaining and eight wickets in hand. What made matters worse for the hosts was that while Pant came so low down the order that he could not really make an impact (eventually he scored a duck after facing just two balls) while Lucknow’s former captain KL Rahul had a game to remember, guiding his new team Delhi to victory with an unbeaten half century. In the process, KL Rahul also became the fastest player to score 5000 runs in the IPL.
Asked why he had come in so low down the order, Pant had explained: “I...