
For Lucknow, hope was high when they signed Rishabh Pant for incredible RS. 27 crore during auction. This signaled the dawn of the new approach to Super Giants, but they also could not impress. The middle order for them was a problem with a bad form of hinge and Nicholas Pooran’s slump was expensive. Bowling, which was at the beginning weakened by injuries, was further hit because the form of Sharduula Thakura and the other in the last games immersed.