Rishabh Pant’s Tactical Blunder Against MS Dhoni Costs LSG, Snubbed Ravi Bishnoi Breaks Silence

MS Dhoni, 43, sparked a major nostalgia with his match winning match in the Lucknow Super Giant match against Chennai Super Kings in the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025 on Monday. The 11-ball of Dhoni 26 turned the tide in favor of CSK after CSK seemed to have hired another collapse of the shot unit. Chennai needing 44 points to win in the last 4 Overs, he was on Dhoni and Shivam Dube to bring the team back to the house. The pressure was on the skipper LSG Rishabh Pant to be decisive with his choices of bowling. It was then that the pants, a rather inexperienced skipper, was wrong.

Pant decided to go with the rhythm duo of Avesh Khan and Shardul Thakur in the last 4 Overs despite the fact that Ravi Bishnoi de la Jus was the best interpreter of the team in the match with the ball. In his three Overs, Bishnoi had only given 18 points while choosing two counters. However, he did not have the chance to finish his quota of 4 overs.

Speaking at the post-match press conference, Bishnoi said that even if he had not spoken to Pant to give him the opportunity to play death, he went on the field in the middle, hoping that the LSG skipper remarks and gave him the ball. But that didn’t happen.

“I didn’t really talk about [to Pant] On this subject, but I went to the counter several times and I think he had plans in place he wanted to execute, “Bishnoi told Media after the match.

“In such situations, the captain is better placed and he also keeps the counter, so he understands things better. In my opinion, he made the decision he thought better,” he added.

Bishnoi even highlighted Lucknow’s need to play a 4th Spinner on the track after the Bishnoi trio, Digvesh Rathi and Aiden Markram had figures from 11-0-66-4. The average Shardul Thakur stimulator was the biggest disappointment for LSG, with 56 points.

“It was a match fairly close in any case and all our quisors played well. So, in my opinion, it did not really matter if there could have been an additional spinner. In a way, we already had three spinners – Markram upset his full quota of four Overs, Rathi a Bowlé, I bowlillé – so after having three spinners, I can’t play it. more on this ground.

“And with regard to Mahi Bhai (MS Dhoni), as everyone knows – when the ball is in his radar and that’s his day, that’s all,” added Bishnoi.