Moody Signals Pant Reset as LSG End 2026 Last Place — Ipl 2026
Lucknow Super Giants ended ipl 2026 in last place, and the pressure around Rishabh Pant’s role has sharpened fast. Tom Moody said the franchise is set to consider a leadership overhaul after two dismal IPL campaigns.
The director of cricket did not soften the assessment. Speaking after the seven-wicket loss to Punjab Kings on Saturday, he said, "From a captaincy point of view, he’s found it challenging, and the results reflect that," linking the team’s finish directly to Pant’s handling of the job.
Tom Moody on Pant
Moody’s remark is the clearest sign that Lucknow will spend the off-season looking hard at leadership, not just results. Pant has been the skipper, but the franchise’s direction now appears to be under review after the 2026 campaign ended at the bottom of the table.
The comment also sits on top of a broader run of poor outcomes. Lucknow finished seventh in 2025 before sliding to last place in 2026, giving the team back-to-back seasons that forced the issue to move beyond one bad result and into the structure of the side itself.
Lucknow’s Two-Season Slide
Seventh in 2025 left room for a rebound. Instead, 2026 ended with a last-place finish, and that sequence is what has pushed the leadership question to the front.
For a team built around a high-profile skipper, that kind of drop narrows the options. A leadership overhaul is now part of the discussion, with Pant’s captaincy the central point Moody addressed after the loss to Punjab Kings.
Punjab Kings Finish
The seven-wicket defeat on Saturday was the immediate trigger for Moody’s comments, but the decision-making path now points well beyond one result. Lucknow’s season ended with the same problem that haunted it across two years: the results never matched the ambition around the captaincy setup.
That leaves the franchise with a clear offseason task. The last-place finish in 2026 and the seventh-place finish in 2025 have made the leadership debate unavoidable, and Moody’s words suggest Pant’s future as skipper will sit near the top of it.
