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Delhi Capitals co-owner Parth Jindal had spoken last year about why the franchise did not retain Rishabh Pant, who ended up at Lucknow Super Giants in the IPL 2025.

Jindal said that the star wicketkeeper batter was on “different wavelengths” on how to operate the team. The star joined Lucknow Super Giants in the mega auction for Rs 27 crore, becoming the most expensive player in the history of the IPL.

"It was just a different philosophy of how he wanted the franchise to operate and how us - the owners - wanted the franchise to operate. That's what caused it (Pant's departure). There's nothing to do with money,” Jindal had told ESPNCricinfo. "Money's never been an issue for Rishabh. And money's never been an issue for us. I guess the three of us (Kiran Grandhi, Jindal and Pant) were on different wavelengths. He took a call at the end of it. We tried everything, but he decided eventually that it was time to move on."

"It means the way the franchise is to run, the decisions of the franchise, those kinds of things. There were certain expectations that he had and there were certain expectations we had. I can just say that we couldn't align on these things. We gave him some feedback regarding leadership. We told him ways in which he could improve on that, but we were quite clear that we know his ambitions, we know where he wants to go. He's made it amply clear that his dream and desire is to captain India and that starts with captaining an IPL team," he noted.

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