New Delhi: Lucknow Supergiants captain Rishabh Pant He was widely criticized after his post-match comments which included the ‘F’ word. Pant, after LSG’s defeat to Rajasthan Royals on 19 May at the Sawai Mansingh Stadium in Jaipur, was called for a post-match interview and said: “We are a good team”, live on television.Pant was criticized from all sides for this comment. However, the former Indian captain Sunil Gavaskar In support of Pant, broadcasters should have given the captain a breathing space instead of calling him directly after the match.“Rishabh Pant dropping the ‘F’ word in his post-match interview makes one wonder if it is necessary to interview a captain whose team lost the game barely minutes ago. If this last over ends, the frustration for the skipper will increase and if he is also the wicket-keeper who is running up and down the stumps on every other delivery and that too in this heat, it may add to his frustration,” Gavaskar wrote in Midday.Both LSG and Pant were not doing well in Indian Premier League 2026. LSG signed from IPL 2026 at the bottom of the points table. They managed to win only four out of 14 matches and lost 10.Pant also struggled with the bat, scoring just 312 runs in 14 matches.“It might be better to talk to the winning team’s ‘Player of the Match’ and give the losing team’s captain a little time to splash water on his face and regain his composure and then come in for the interview. As it is, it will take a while to get ready for the presentation party, so giving the captain of the team can ensure that the losing team’s captain gets a few more things than the losers.”“Rishabh Pant is one of the most cheerful guys in the game who likes to play the game in his own unique way. And the fact that he even lost, giving the captain of the losing team a few more minutes to recover his thoughts instead of throwing the mic in his face before he has time to catch his breath?” he wrote.
