Rishabh Pant again struggled to a low score  as his Lucknow Super Giants team slumped to a fourth defeat in five IPL games, losing by 37 runs to the Punjab Kings on Sunday.

Lucknow Super Giants have given their backing to skipper Rishabh Pant to lead them to glory in the Indian Premier League despite the swashbuckling left-hander's struggles with the bat.

Pant, who made his international debut in 2017 after being part of India’s Champions Trophy-winning squad, believes that success in IPL will come naturally if one aims higher.

Record-breaking wicketkeeper Rishabh Pant has been named captain of Indian Premier League team Lucknow Super Giants for the upcoming edition of the lucrative T20 tournament, the franchise said Monday.

An explosive Rishabh Pant slammed the second fastest Indian Test half-century  Saturday to drive his team to a 145-run lead with four wickets left after an intense day two of the decisive fifth Test against Australia.

The acclaimed 37-year-old opener Rohit has had a poor series and the writing was on the wall when he failed to show up for India's pre-match press conference.

Two years after Rishabh Pant feared his cricket career was over in a serious car crash, the wicketkeeper has become the most expensive player in Indian Premier League history.

The winning bid for Pant surpassed the 267.5 million ($3.17 million) paid to Shreyas Iyer by Punjab Kings, in the first set of marquee players in the ongoing auction in the Saudi Arabian city of Jed

India keeper Rishabh Pant and New Zealand veteran Daryl Mitchell have been rewarded for strong performances during the recent third Test by making gains on the latest ICC Men's Test Batter Rankings that has caused a major shake-up inside the top 10.

India's Rishabh Pant will be fit to keep wicket in the second Test against New Zealand after an injury scare, confirmed coach Gautam Gambhir on Wednesday.

Pant made a valiant 99 in the opening loss to the Kiwis, marking the visitors' first Test victory in India since 1988. But while keeping wickets, he hurt the same knee that was operated on after a serious car crash in December 2022 that sidelined him for more than a year.

There has been a reshuffle at the top of the ICC Men's Test Player Rankings with India pacer Jasprit Bumrah re-claiming his position as the No.1 ranked bowler.

India batters Virat Kohli and Rishabh Pant gifted their bats to Bangladesh all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan after the second and final Test between the sides at the Green Park stadium in Kanpur on Tuesday. It was Shakib’s final away Test for Bangladesh who lost the match by seven wickets and went down 2-0 in the series. Kohli brought out his bat and gave it to Shakib and Pant followed suit as players from both sides started to gather for the presentation ceremony. Photo: BCB

What was to be a surprise visit to his mother in December 2022 went horribly wrong when the car Pant was driving on that fateful Friday morning hit a central divider, flipped over and caught fire.

India's Rishabh Pant enjoyed the experience of setting the field against himself in the opening Test against Bangladesh in Chennai, the maverick wicketkeeper-batsman said.

What was to be a surprise visit to his mother in December 2022 went horribly wrong when the car Pant, was driving on that fateful Friday morning hit a central divider, flipped over and caught fire.

Although he could somehow escape from a burning car, Pant suffered multiple serious injuries, and it took him 14 months to return to competitive cricket through Indian Premier League (IPL) this year.

India should use Yashasvi Jaiswal as skipper Rohit Sharma's opening partner in the T20 World Cup next month and play Rishabh Pant as the preferred wicketkeeper to ensure left-handed variety in their batting lineup, former all-rounder Yuvraj Singh said.

Rishabh Pant's middle-order experience can help him edge out Sanju Samson and become India's preferred wicketkeeper-batsman at the Twenty20 World Cup in the West Indies and United States next month, former India batsman Gautam Gambhir said.

Samson was named in India's 15-man squad for the June 1-29 event in the West Indies and United States but the inclusion of Rishabh Pant means the 2007 champions have options as they bid for a second title.