Why did LSG place 27 crores bet on Rishabh Pant? Sanjeev Goenka told the ex-factor plan behind it!

Sanjiv Goenka Reveals Why Lsg Buy Rishabh Pant 27 Crore: The Indian Premier League 2025 saw many major changes. Apart from this, the most expensive player ever was seen in IPL 2025. Here we are talking about Rishabh Pant. Those who were bought by Lucknow Super Giants for Rs 27 crore in IPL 2025 mega auction. After this dialect, he has become the most expensive player of IPL. But till now he has not been able to show his amazing in the IPL and is going through poor form.

Now there is a discussion about why Lucknow Super Giants spent such a huge amount on Rishabh Pant. A full video related to this question is becoming very fast. In which the owner of the team Sanjeev Goenka is seen telling the strategy behind this.

Why did Sanjeev Goenka bought Rishabh Pant for 27 crores?

Talking about Raj Shamani’s ‘Figure Out’ podcast, when Sanjeev Goenka was asked the logic to buy Rishabh Pant, he said, “If we wanted an Indian match winner, there were four options of that level in the auction: Rishabh Pant, Shreyas Iyer, KL Rahul and Yujvendra Chahal. Think for the period – perhaps you are looking for a young player for 10 years!

Sanjeev Goenka had also told about his team’s thinking in another podcast with Ranveer Allahbadia.

Sanjeev Goenka had told Ranveer Allabia, “Somebody said that you should go for Chahal. Somebody else said that Jose Butler. No one said that you should go for Rishabh. He said that it is certain that Pant will go to a certain team. Then I asked him how much he will sell: Someone said 20 crores, someone else would have spent 25 crores.

Sanjeev Goenka explained the science behind buying Pant

Sanjeev Goenka had further stated, “Science was behind spending Rs 27 crore for Rishabh Pant. Delhi bid up to Rs 26.5 crore for Shreyas Iyer (then let him go to Punjab Kings). So, I felt that ‘Partha Jindal Jindal Rishabh Pant is so crazy for Rishabh Pant that he would go up in IPL auction’. Therefore, the idea was to go up two or three dialects from Parth, and they would stop there, for Rishabh, we had prepared three scenes, and in all of them, he was very important for us. “

Rishabh Pant’s data in IPL 2025

IPL 2025 has proved to be the worst season of Rishabh Pant’s IPL career. In IPL 2025, Rishabh Pant has scored 110 runs in 10 matches at an average of 12.22. Which includes only one half -century. Earlier in IPL 2016, he scored 198 runs in 10 matches at an average of 24.75. Even at that time, he scored only one half -century. Except for these two seasons, Rishabh Pant has never scored less than 300 runs in his 9 -year IPL career.