Now Lucknow Supergiants depend on luck, Captain Rishabh Pant surrenders, pain spills over 7th defeat

New Delhi: Rishabh Pant-led Lucknow Supergiants are almost on the verge of being eliminated from the playoff round in IPL 2026. Lucknow came to the field to play its 9th match this season against Mumbai Indians, in which it lost by 6 wickets. This is his 7th defeat of the season. From here, if Lucknow wants to reach the playoffs, it will have to win almost all its matches. In the match against Mumbai, Lucknow had scored 228 runs, but its bowlers could not defend this score.

In such a situation, captain Rishabh Panch looked very disappointed on this disappointing defeat of the team. After the match, Rishabh Pant said, “The way we started, I think we should have scored more runs. But there are some good signs too. It cannot be said that we played very badly. The boys played freely, but in the end I think Mumbai bowled well because they are used to these conditions.”

Now we need luck’s support-Pant

Let us tell you that this season has not been good for the team as well as Rishabh Pant himself. Pant looked completely dejected after 7 defeats. Rishabh Pant said, “Can’t say much on this condition of the team. I think we need luck. That’s all I will say. I think a lot of grace will help in this and for this we will have to make more efforts.”

He said, “In this match against Mumbai, we fell short by 10-15 runs because it was a 220-230 run wicket and the way we started, we had an edge over them, but at the same time on this kind of wicket, you cannot blame the bowlers all the time. They are doing brilliantly for us.” Lucknow team is at the bottom in the points table with only 2 wins in 9 matches played so far and 4 points.