India, May 28 -- Rishabh Pant ended IPL 2025 on a bittersweet note. Sweet because he finally shrugged off his horror run with the bat with a blistering innings of 118* off 61 balls that propelled Lucknow Super Giants to 227/3 against Royal Challengers Bengaluru. Bitter because it was not enough to ensure a win as RCB shared the target down in 18.4 overs with six wickets in the bank. On top of that, BCCI punished Pant after finding him guilty of breaching the Code of Conduct.

The LSG captain was punished with Rs.30 lakh fine for maintaining a slow over rate. The fine was higher than the usual over-rate offence of Rs.12 lakh for the team's captain because it was the third time LSG could not maintain the required over-rate this season.

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