India's dynamic wicketkeeper batter Rishabh Pant has been named as the skipper of Lucknow Super Giants.

Rishabh Pant Rishabh Pant will take over the captaincy armband from KL Rahul. Pant set a new record in the IPL auction last year in December as LSG fetched him in for an unprecedented ₹27 crore, the most expensive buy ever in the history of Indian Premier League (IPL).

"The amount of strategising that was done revolved around Rishabh, it was done keeping him in mind," Goenka mentioned. On being asked about picking Pant as their skipper, Sanjiv Goenka, the owner of LSG revealed. "I think, time will prove that he is not only the most expensive player of IPL but also the best player of IPL."

Pant, who previously captained Delhi Capitals, expressed his excitement on this move. "Amazing, overwhelmed by all the things sir said about me," Pant replied after being named the new LSG skipper.

Since making Pant's IPL debut back in 2016, he has piled 3,284 runs in 111 matches at a jaw dropping average of 35.31, with an astonishing strike rate of 148.93, including 18 fifties and a solitary hundred.

Lucknow Super Giants squad for IPL 2025:

Nicholas Pooran, Ravi Bishnoi, Mayank Yadav, Mohsin Khan, Ayush Badoni, Rishabh Pant (Captain), David Miller, Aiden Markram, Mitchell Marsh, Avesh Khan, Abdul Samad, Aryan Juyal, Akash Deep, Shahbaz Ahmad,  M. Siddharth, Akash Singh, Digvesh Singh, Himmat Singh, Aryan Juyal, Shamar Joseph, Yuvraj Chaudhary, Prince Yadav, Matthew Breetzke, Rajvardhan Hangargekar, Arshini Kulkarni.