As captain and batter at Lucknow, Pant had two difficult seasons; in 2025 and 2026, the team did not make the Playoffs in either of them. Pant has two of his least successful seasons as an individual throughout his IPL tenure with LSG. With a strike rate of 133.16 and an average of 24.45 in 13 innings, he scored just 269 runs in the 2025 season—his lowest total since his debut in 2016. This year, the returns stayed unchanged, with 312 runs at 28.36.
