After a not-so-successful stint with LSG, he has been reinstated to his former team after being traded for Kuldeep Yadav. “We needed a middle-order batter and Pant fits it perfectly. He was with us and he played well for us.
Pant played 111 matches for the Capitals and scored 3,284 runs besides captaining the unit before moving to Lucknow Super Giants in 2025.
Newly-appointed Delhi Capitals head coach Sourav Ganguly is confident that embattled wicketkeeper-batter Rishabh Pant will “fit perfectly” in the team’s middle order, bringing the best out of him in the next IPL season. Next year, when he turns up again, I think he’ll use the time and space and the matches to become a better player,” Ganguly said in a video posted by DC on their official YouTube channel.
Newly-appointed Delhi Capitals head coach Sourav Ganguly is confident that embattled wicketkeeper-batter Rishabh Pant will “fit perfectly” in the team’s middle order.
“Well, I am very, very excited. I have been there with them for two seasons, one season as Director of Cricket. “It’s a good team with KL Rahul, Axar Patel, Rishabh Pant, Mitchell Starc, Lungi Ngidi, David Miller, Tristan Stubbs.
My first season was 2019, we lost in the semis and then I went away as BCCI president. Delhi have reached the IPL final only once, in the 2020 season.
“You know he enjoys batting at the Feroz Shah Kotla (Arun Jaitley Stadium) in Delhi and hopefully we’ll see the best of Pant in the years to come for the Delhi shirt,” added the former India captain, who is also heading the Cricket Association of Bengal. So I am really excited for the season ahead,” he said. DC finished sixth last season and Ganguly said his priority is to take the team into the playoffs. It’s a pretty strong team and I hope we play to our potential and I hope everyone understands how good they are and goes and expresses themselves,” he said. “I think it’s time that the Delhi boys give them (the owners) that opportunity to rejoice with the squad where they have put in so much time and energy for the years to come,” he said.
