Indian Premier League 2025 is to start from March 21. Before this, Lucknow Super Giants team has announced its new captain. Actually, Lucknow Super Giants had released KL Rahul before the mega auction, who was the captain of their team till last season. In such a situation, now the Lucknow team has decided to make Rishabh Pant the captain of the team. Earlier, Rishabh Pant was a part of the Delhi team and was also handling the responsibility of captaincy. But in the mega auction, Lucknow Super Giants made a record-breaking bid on Pant.

Rishabh Pant's big statement as soon as he became captain

Rishabh Pant is the most expensive player in IPL history and now he has also become the most expensive captain. Pant was bought by Lucknow Super Giants for Rs 27 crore in the IPL 2025 auction. After getting the responsibility of captaincy, Rishabh Pant looked very happy and said that he will work on MS Dhoni's formula. Pant said, 'Mahi Bhai's words are very famous, MS Dhoni had said, take care of the process and the results will come automatically. I will keep this in mind.

Let us tell you, a big dispute was seen between MS Dhoni and Sanjeev Goenka during IPL 2017. Then Sanjiv Goenka was the owner of Rising Pune Super Giants. He is now the owner of Lucknow Super Giants. In 2017, he removed MS Dhoni from the captaincy and made Steve Smith the captain. There was a lot of uproar over his decision then. Sanjeev Goenka was not happy with Dhoni's captaincy at that time. However, now he is seen praising Dhoni on many occasions.

Sanjeev Goenka praised Pant fiercely

Sanjeev Goenka praised Pant while announcing his appointment as captain. Sanjeev Goenka said, 'I see a born captain in Rishabh Pant. From my point of view, he will probably be the best IPL captain ever. People keep Dhoni and Rohit in the list of most successful captains of IPL. Mark my words, after 10-12 years, Rishabh Pant will also be in this list along with Dhoni and Rohit.