Most Worthless Player of IPL 2025

[Texan]

By a record breaking unanimous verdict, Rishabh Pant is declared as the most worthless player of IPL 2025

 

 

 

Original OP follows:

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It's that time of the year!!! With the playoffs close to completion, it is time to pick the most worthless player of IPL 2025. This will be our 14th consecutive year for this thread theme. 

 

Here are winners from prior years:

2024: Hardik Pandya

2023: Deepak Hooda

2022: Rohit Sharma

2021: Nicholas Pooran

2020: MS Dhoni

2019: Yusuf Pathan

2018: Glen Maxwell

2017: Shane Watson

2016: David Miller

2015: Yuvraj Singh

2014: Chris Gayle

2013: Kumara Sangakkara

2012: Yusuf Pathan

 

*REMEMBER*

The most worthless player is a player who is earning big bucks, but performing miserably poorly. The more the bucks and the poorer the performance, the more worthless they are.

 

P.S. If you think that I missed someone, let me know and I will evaluate and determine if we need to add them to the poll.

Edited May 27 by Texan

[Texan]

I think I know the answer to this question, but have to post the poll anyway

[bowl_out]

Pant. It's not even a close contest this time.

 

Venky Iyer is a distant second.

[Texan]

10 minutes ago, bowl_out said:

Pant. It's not even a close contest this time.

 

Venky Iyer is a distant second.

Shami has also been horrendous but compared to Pant, is getting paid much less.

[vvvslaxman]

Pant is on his way to becoming the most worthless player in any season of an IPL. Only Maxwell can give competition. But even he was not sold for this much money. Pant's keeping, reviews all add up. In an era where youngsters having a strike rate of 160, 170 this guy has a strike rate of 100 average of 12 in 12 games. 

[Ultimate_Game]

Pant. I could've replaced Pant this IPL season and wouldn't have performed any worse.

[figo6762]

7 

[Suhaan]

50 minutes ago, Ultimate_Game said:

Pant. I could've replaced Pant this IPL season and wouldn't have performed any worse.

Even a dummy of Pantatunga would have added more life to LSG than real Pantatunga

[rkt.india]

10 hours ago, bowl_out said:

Pant. It's not even a close contest this time.

 

Venky Iyer is a distant second.

I think it's a tie between the two.

[Texan]

LOL. In all these years of doing this poll, never seen anything as one-sided as this before. There was virtually no other contender.

[Lone Wolf]

46 minutes ago, rkt.india said:

I think it's a tie between the two.

Venky Iyer at least has one MoTM performance vs SRH

[velu]

so far everyone voted for pant 

[nevada]

Pant is consensus candidate. Scrap the poll, it's not even needed! 

[Vk1]

22 hours ago, Texan said:

It's that time of the year!!! With the playoffs close to completion, it is time to pick the most worthless player of IPL 2025. This will be our 14th consecutive year for this thread theme. 

 

Here are winners from prior years:

2024: Hardik Pandya

2023: Deepak Hooda

2022: Rohit Sharma

2021: Nicholas Pooran

2020: MS Dhoni

2019: Yusuf Pathan

2018: Glen Maxwell

2017: Shane Watson

2016: David Miller

2015: Yuvraj Singh

2014: Chris Gayle

2013: Kumara Sangakkara

2012: Yusuf Pathan

 

*REMEMBER*

The most worthless player is a player who is earning big bucks, but performing miserably poorly. The more the bucks and the poorer the performance, the more worthless they are.

 

P.S. If you think that I missed someone, let me know and I will evaluate and determine if we need to add them to the poll.

over the last 10 seasons as a whole, Manish Pandey gets the crown.. he would be the unanimous choice

[LordPrabhzy]

why is Maxwell not on this list?

[Ultimate_Game]

13 hours ago, Suhaan said:

Even a dummy of Pantatunga would have added more life to LSG than real Pantatunga

 

12 hours ago, Texan said:

LOL. In all these years of doing this poll, never seen anything as one-sided as this before. There was virtually no other contender.

 

And it's sad. I'm a huge Pant fan and have rooted for him in the past, and still do in Tests. But post accident Pant doesn't warrant a spot in LOIs even for Delhi, forget Team India. He's a shoo-in for Tests and shouldn't be anywhere near the LOI teams.

[Nikhil_cric]

Sadly, it's clearly been Pant. LSG had it real bad this season. 

 

Pant and Miller absolutely sucked and were 2 of the worst batters in the entire IPL. 

[Texan]

6 hours ago, Ultimate_Game said:

 

 

And it's sad. I'm a huge Pant fan and have rooted for him in the past, and still do in Tests. But post accident Pant doesn't warrant a spot in LOIs even for Delhi, forget Team India. He's a shoo-in for Tests and shouldn't be anywhere near the LOI teams.

Same here. It makes me sad to make him the most worthless player. He has been our best Test batsman of the last 5-6 years and won us many Test matches and rescued the team many times. He is still in the top 3 picks for any Test match (along with Bumrah and Jaiswal). Sadly, his white ball game has not impressed much.

[cricspirit]

Never seen 100% agreement.

 

18 votes all for Pant so far.

[Suhaan]

4 hours ago, Texan said:

Same here. It makes me sad to make him the most worthless player. He has been our best Test batsman of the last 5-6 years and won us many Test matches and rescued the team many times. He is still in the top 3 picks for any Test match (along with Bumrah and Jaiswal). Sadly, his white ball game has not impressed much.

His problem has always been his unstable base,white ball and the sense of urgency over exposes his limitations