‘Give him time to splash his face with water’: Sunil Gavaskar on Rishabh Pant using ‘F’ word on live TV

Rishabh Pant (BCCI/IPL Photo) NEW DELHI: Lucknow Super Giants captain Rishabh Pant has drawn widespread criticism after his post-match comment that contained the ‘F’ word. Pant, after LSG’s defeat by Rajasthan Royals on May 19 at the Sawai Mansingh Stadium in Jaipur, was invited for a post-match interview and said, “We are a f***** good team,” on live television.Pant was slammed and criticized from all quarters for this comment. However, former Indian captain Sunil Gavaskar backed Pant and said that the announcers should have given the captain some breathing space instead of calling him straight after the match.“Rishabh Pant dropping the ‘F’ word in his post-match interview makes one wonder if it is necessary to interview a captain whose team had just lost the match barely a few minutes earlier. If it was the last over, then the disappointment would be even greater for the captain, and if it is also a wicket-keeper running up and down,” Gavaskar added in every other game and there. Noon.Both LSG and Pant did not have a good match in Indian Premier League 2026. LSG signed IPL 2026 at the bottom of the points table. In 14 matches, they managed only four wins and 10 defeats.Pant struggled too much with the bat and scored just 312 runs in 14 matches.“Perhaps it would be better to speak to the ‘player of the match’ from the winning team and give the captain of the losing team a bit of time to rinse his face with water, calm down and then come in for the interview. Now there will be a bit of time for the presentation party to be ready, so giving the captain of the losing team a few extra minutes won’t ensure that this sort of thing doesn’t happen.“Rishabh Pant is one of the funniest guys in the game who loves playing the sport in his own unique way. And the fact that he too lost means that the captain of the losing team has to get a few more minutes to recover before having a microphone shoved in his face before he’s even had time to catch his breath. Is that too much?” he wrote