Former India player turned veteran commentator Aakash Chopra has questioned Rishabh Pant about his shot selection in the LSG vs MI msg where LSG lost. He also said that the LSG skipper was probably not in the right frame of mind from the batting perspective after MI set LSG a 216-run target as well. Howeverr, Pant managed only four runs off two deliveries in the chase as the visitors were bundled out for 161, losing the match by 54 runs as well.

While talking about LSG’s chase in a video shared on his YouTube channel ‘Aakash Chopra’, he said, “The biggest story is Rishabh Pant’s. What are you doing? He hit a four off the first ball and then got out off the second ball while playing the reverse sweep again. All of us say that one shouldn’t comment on the way Rishabh Pant gets out because he scores runs like that only. However, one has to comment if he doesn’t score runs, and he hasn’t scored runs this year. I say he is a generational talent, but he has been extremely ordinary this year. The one good thing he did was that he came to bat at No. 4, but it seems like he is not in the right mental space, from the batting point of view.”

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While talking about MI’s batting in their IPL 2025 clash against LSG, Aakash Chopra also noted that while Rohit Sharma (12 off 5) hit two sixes before he got out, Ryan Rickelton (58 off 32) and Suryakumar Yadav (54 off 28) scored quickly as well.

“Every guy has come in form. Rohit Sharma got out, but he hit two sixes. He was batting well. Ryan Rickelton was at the other end. He is now batting very well. Suryakumar Yadav is batting like Suryakumar Yadav. There might be a slight question on Hardik Pandya’s form as he hasn’t scored runs for a long time, but Will Jacks did his job, and Naman Dhir came later and did his job too. They played Corbin Bosch in this game because Mitchell Santner had an injured finger. He too scored 20 runs off 10 balls,” Aakash Chopra concluded.