LUCKNOW, May 21 -- This was a season that the Lucknow Super Giants wanted to have an impact in. They started with a bang when they bought Rishabh Pant at the mega auction last year for a mouth-watering Rs.27 crore. The money was crazy but so were the expectations. After finishing third in their first two seasons, the seventh-place finish last season hit them hard and they needed a pick-me-up. They would have hoped that Pant would be the man to inspire a comeback of sorts. But the skipper's partnership with LSG really didn't work out well. The left-handed batter known for his swashbuckling strokes never got going and the lack of runs meant that he was always under pressure. It didn't help that he would have seen how badly things had ended fo...