Indian Premier League (IPL) franchise Delhi Capitals (DC) shared a hilarious meme in which they compared their star wicket-keeper batsman Rishabh Pant with one of the characters in the Oscar-nominated Bollywood movie, ‘Lagaan’ on the film’s 20-year anniversary. The official Twitter handle of DC posted a picture comparing the astrologer Guran — to Pant, due to Guran’s unorthodox batting style.
Delhi Capitals captioned the picture as, “#20YearsOfLagaan, an audacious legacy lives on #Lagaan @RishabhPant17.” The Ashutosh Gowariker-directed Lagaan involved a cricket match that had unorthodox players taking the field against an experienced English side. The same unorthodox nature of batting was compared with Pant’s audacious reverse-scoop against James Anderson which he played earlier this year.
#20YearsOfLagaan, an 𝐚𝐮𝐝𝐚𝐜𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬 legacy lives on 💙#Lagaan @RishabhPant17 pic.twitter.com/7d6M7KuDug
— Delhi Capitals (Stay Home. Wear Double Masks😷) (@DelhiCapitals) June 15, 2021
The movie, which was nominated for Oscars, completed two decades ago and it had a stupendous cast that included Aamir Khan and Gracy Singh as lead characters. Some veteran actors like Rajesh Vivek, Pradeep Rawat, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Rajendra Gupta, Raghubir Yadav, and British actors Paul Blackthorne and Rachel Shelley.
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Delhi Capitals continued where they left off in the IPL 2020 and showcased some stellar performances in the suspended season of the 14th edition of the cash-rich league. Under the leadership of Pant, they finished top of the table before the tournament was suspended due to raging COVID-19 cases in the bio-bubble.
DC finished with six wins out of the eight matches that were completed and they were also standing at the top of the point table of IPL 201 before the suspension of the points table.
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Delhi Capitals stand-in-skipper, Risabh Pant finished with 213 runs in eight matches. He scored those runs at a healthy strike rate of 131.48 and at an average of 35.50. Pant was named in the 15-member squad which was announced today for the World Test Championship (WTC) Final between India and New Zealand beginning June 18 at the Ageas Bowl in Southampton.
