Star India wicket-keeper batter Rishabh Pant has struggled big time in the Indian Premier League (IPL) season 2025. Sold to the Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) for the most expensive price tag in the IPL history at Rs 27 crore, Pant has underperformed both as a batter and as the team’s captain so far in the IPL 2025. Recently, Iceland Cricket, known for their sarcastic social media posts, took a cheeky dig at underperforming players by naming a team of the biggest ‘frauds and scammers’ of IPL 2025.

In a post on X (formerly Twitter), Iceland Cricket shared a tongue-in-cheek XI featuring the likes of Ishan Kishan, Rishabh Pant, Glenn Maxwell, Liam Livingstone, Deepak Hooda, R Ashwin, and Mohammed Shami, labelling them as the biggest ‘frauds and scammers’ of IPL 2025. Notably, Rishabh Pant was named the captain of this satirical lineup.

“On a rain day in Reyjavik, we give you our IPL 2025 frauds and scammers team: R Tripathi, R Ravindra, I Kishan, R Pant (c & wk), V Iyer, G Maxwell, L Livingstone, D Hooda, R Ashwin, M Pathirana, M Shami; No impact player: M Kumar.”

Here’s a look at the social media post:

On a rain day in Reyjavík, we give you our IPL 2025 frauds and scammers team:

R Tripathi
R Ravindra
I Kishan
R Pant (c & wk)
V Iyer
G Maxwell
L Livingstone
D Hooda
R Ashwin
M Pathirana
M Shami

No impact player: M Kumar

— Iceland Cricket (@icelandcricket) May 5, 2025

In what has turned out to be a disappointing season for Rishabh Pant, the LSG skipper has scored just 198 runs in 10 matches at an average of 24.75, with only one half-century to his name. His average in recent games has dipped to 12.80, and notably, his strike rate has fallen below 100 for the first time in the tournament.