Overview
- The club confirmed on Friday that Rishabh Pant personally asked to be relieved of captaincy duties and that the franchise accepted his request with immediate effect.
- LSG finished bottom of the IPL 2026 table with four wins from 14 matches, capping two seasons of underperformance that included a seventh-place finish in 2025.
- Pant was the record Rs 27 crore purchase at the 2025 mega auction and scored 581 runs in 28 matches for LSG, including 269 in 2025 and 312 in 2026.
- LSG Director of Cricket Tom Moody has called for a reset in leadership and media reports say the club is weighing internal candidates such as Mitchell Marsh, Aiden Markram and Nicholas Pooran.
- Franchise sources and reports say a wider squad restructure is being discussed and releasing Pant before next season is one option under consideration, but no roster moves have been announced.