Notable Achievements of Rishabh Pant in IPL
- Record ₹27 crore contract (2025): Lucknow Super Giants made Pant the most expensive player in IPL auction history at the time, beating Shreyas Iyer’s ₹26.75 crore from earlier in the same auction.
- Emerging Player of the Season (2018): Pant scored 684 runs for Delhi Daredevils, including an unbeaten 128 off 63 balls against Sunrisers Hyderabad.
- Captained Delhi to the top of the table (2021): in his first season as captain, Delhi Capitals finished first in the league stage.
- Comeback season (2024): after missing all of 2023, Pant returned as Delhi Capitals captain.
- Second IPL hundred (2025): an unbeaten 118 against Royal Challengers Bengaluru in his first season with LSG.
How Rishabh Pant’s IPL Salary Grew
Pant joined Delhi for ₹1.9 crore in 2016 as an 18-year-old fresh from the Under-19 World Cup. Delhi retained him for ₹8 crore before the 2018 mega auction, and he was retained again ahead of 2022 for ₹16 crore as captain. When Delhi did not retain him for 2025, LSG won the bidding at ₹27 crore, more than 14 times his first IPL contract.
Pant was injured in a car accident in December 2022 and missed the whole 2023 season. Under the BCCI’s player insurance arrangements, contracted players who miss a season through injury are compensated, so his ₹16 crore contract value is shown for 2023 but left out of the total above.