Due to elbow injury, Lucknow captain Pant was not seen on the field for most of the time during the match against RCB. Although he finally came to bat, he did not play at all in the second innings. In the absence of the captain on the field, Lucknow suffered its third defeat in 5 matches this season.

Pant will not be able to play the remaining matches

Now former Indian batsman and selector Chris Srikkanth has claimed that due to injury, Rishabh Pant will not be able to play the remaining matches of the current season. The former batsman also said that Lucknow will not be able to make it to the playoffs this year. Although praising the team's bowling department, Srikkanth took a dig at the team's batting setup and described it as a very poor team. Srikanth said on YouTube channel that Pant now does not think that he will be able to play further in this season. Lucknow is a very bad team and it seems that their batting will not work at all.

Lucknow's batting is very bad

Srikanth further said that everyone says that Lucknow has not given 200 runs yet, but to give 200 runs, they will have to score 200 runs first, which they never do. Talking about Lucknow's batting against RCB, he said that Lucknow batted very poorly and it was difficult to watch. Markram is a very bad cricketer, not only this, all three Mitchell Marsh, Nicholas Pooran and Markram should be sold. Now the wait for him to score big is over. Leave these three out and replace them with new players. Anyway, now there is no chance of him qualifying.

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