A recent tweet on X featured Iceland Cricket’s ‘IPL 2025 frauds and scammers team’ from the current 18th edition of the Indian Premier League.
Iceland Cricket is renowned for its humorous social media presence. Numerous players have exceeded expectations in their performances. However, a number of players have also fared remarkably poorly.
Rishabh Pant, the wicketkeeper-batter and captain of the Lucknow Super Giants, was appointed captain of this team.
Despite being purchased for an unprecedented INR 27 crore, Pant has only managed to score 128 runs in 10 IPL 2025 innings thus far.
Both Rachin Ravindra and Rahul Tripathi, the struggling openers from the Chennai Super Kings, made the cut.
Check the post below:
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 ShamiNo impact player: M Kumar
— Iceland Cricket (@icelandcricket) May 5, 2025
Ishan Kishan and Venkatesh Iyer were at No. 4 on either side of Pant. With the exception of his Sunrisers Hyderabad debut, in which he blazed the stage with a blistering tonne, Kishan’s batsmanship has been lacking. Additionally, Venkatesh has only had one standout innings thus far. Other than that, he has not done well.
Maxwell’s batting season has been forgettable. When the Australian all-rounder returned to the Punjab Kings, he was only able to score 48 runs in six innings before being sidelined by injury. For their respective teams, Liam Livingstone and Deepak Hooda have made negligible contributions. The list also included the name of Ravichandran Ashwin, a seasoned campaigner.
Matheesha Pathirana, who has been unusually expensive (economy rate of 10.22 so far), was one of the two pacers in the XI. Leading the pack was Mohammed Shami. The star Indian pacer has conceded runs at a rate of 11.23 up to this point. Through a clever bit of wordplay, the “Impact Player” was labelled as “No Impact Player” with Mukesh Kumar featuring.
