NEW DELHI: Apart from soaring sixes, knocked-over stumps, crushing yorkers that rattled the timber, creamy drives and stunning catches by fielders, indian premier league Several on-field brawls were also witnessed.If we talk about on-field discord – Harbhajan Singh slapped Sreesanth in what came to be known as ‘Slapgate’, Kieron Pollard throwing the bat at Mitchell Starc, Ravichandran Ashwin ‘Mankading’ Jos Buttler Buttler, and Gautam Gambhir’s fiery tussle with Virat Kohli – the cash-rich league has seen it all. However, the cricketers later decided to bury their animosity, patch up relations and move on based on mutual respect.A recent example is a verbal battle between two parties Nitish Rana and Digvesh Rathi during the Delhi Premier League. The two players have now reconciled, thanks to Ritha Pant.
Ahead of the IPL 2026 match between Lucknow Super Giants and Delhi Capitals at the Ekana Stadium in Lucknow, LSG captain Pant played the role of peacemaker between Rana and Rasi.In a video shared by LSG, Pant can be heard saying to his teammate Radhi, “Tu kaha ja raha hai? Bas ho gaya (Where are you going? Enough)”.Rana smiled and said to Lacy: “In that case, I will have to sit with you.”In the video, Delhi Capitals spinner Kuldeep Yadav intervenes and hugs Pant while saying: “Bohut gyaan de diya”.At this point Pant added, “It’s a question of both.”Ahead of LSG’s match against DC on Wednesday, the two cricketers Rana and Rati were seen burying the hatchet and having a good laugh with each other.Both Lucknow Supergiants and Delhi Capitals performed poorly in IPL 2025 and missed out on qualifying for the playoffs. Delhi sit narrowly in fifth place, just one point away from the top four, while Lucknow is seventh with six wins from 14 league games.Squad:Lucknow Super Giants: Rishabh Pant (C & WK), Nicholas Pooran (WK), Josh Inglis (WK), Aiden Markram, Matthew Breetzke, Himmat Singh, Akshat Raghuwanshi, Mohammed Shami, Avesh Khan, Mayank Yadav, Anrich Nortje, Mohsin Khan, Manimaran Siddharth, Digvesh Rathi, Akash Singh, Prince Yadav, Arjun Tendulkar, Naman Tiwari, Mitchell Marsh, Wanindu Hasaranga, Ayush Badoni, Abdul Samad, Shahbaz Ahmed and Arshin Kulkarni.Delhi capital: Axar Patel (C), KL Rahul (WK), Nitish Rana, Abhishek Porel (WK), Ajay Mandal, Ashutosh Sharma, Dushmantha Chameera, Karan Nair, Kuldeep Yadav, Madhav Tiwari, Mitchell Starc, Sameer Rizvi, T Natarajan, Triprana Vijay, Tristan Stubbs, Vipraji Nigam, Mukesh Kumar, David Miller, Ben Duckett, Auqib Nabi, Pathum Nissanka, Lungi Ngidi, Sahil Parikh, Prithvi Shaw and Kyle Jamieson.
