Rishabh Pant- Sanjiv Goenka: After the defeat of Lucknow Super Giants, the video of its captain Rishabh Pant and team owner Sanjeev Goenka is going viral. Well there is nothing new in this. This has now become the story of every season in IPL. After LSG's defeat, its captain and coach will have to talk to team owner Sanjeev Goenka. This was the case even when KL Rahul was the captain of the team and it is the same now when Rishabh Pant is the captain. Other teams also lose matches in IPL. But, such a video of its captain and team owner was never seen as is seen after LSG's defeat every season.
In the match played on April 1 at Ekana Stadium, Delhi Capitals defeated Lucknow Super Giants by 6 wickets. After this defeat, a video of Sanjeev Goenka and Rishabh Pant is going viral. Now, what is happening between the two in this video is not known, but it seems as if Captain Pant is giving clarification to Sanjeev Goenka. Meanwhile, the team's head coach Justin Langer is also seen in the video.
Sanjiv Goenka and Rishabh pant
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This was the first match of Lucknow Super Giants in IPL 2026, which they lost against Delhi Capitals. With this, they became the first team to lose the match at home in the first 5 matches played this season. In all the four matches played before this, only the host team had won the match.
Delhi Capitals won the toss and also the match. Which was the trend seen in the first 5 matches of this season. After winning the toss, Delhi Capitals captain Akshar Patel put the host Lucknow Super Giants to bat first. But, instead of scoring a big score, LSG could not even play the full 20 overs on its home ground Ekana. She was all out after scoring 141 runs in 18.4 overs.
Delhi Capitals got the target of 142 runs, which they won with 8 balls remaining. However, Delhi's start was also not good. Lucknow had dropped its 4 wickets for just 26 runs. Till that time Lucknow was visible in the match. But, after that, Sameer Rizvi, who came to play as an impact player, turned the whole game with his innings. He scripted the defeat of Lucknow Super Giants by 6 wickets by playing an unbeaten inning of 70 runs.
