'My Guru Told Me...': Jitesh Sharma Credits Dinesh Karthik For Match-Winning Show

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Last Updated:May 28, 2025, 10:46 IST

Jitesh Sharma produced a career-best amusement with the bat successful IPL arsenic helium led Royal Challengers Bengaluru to a memorable six-wicket win.

Jitesh Sharma (left) and Dinesh Karthik (BCCI Photo)

Jitesh Sharma was mislaid for words and trying to wrapper his caput astir the whirlwind innings helium pulled disconnected against Lucknow Super Giants to assistance Royal Challengers Bengaluru unafraid a top-two decorativeness successful IPL 2025. Chasing 228, Jitesh, the stand-in captain, blasted an unbeaten 85 disconnected 33 to assistance RCB overhaul the full successful 18.4 overs for a six-wicket triumph connected Tuesday.

During his innings Jitesh struck 8 fours and six sixes successful his career-best amusement successful an IPL match. The effect means RCB volition present look table-toppers Punjab Kings successful the archetypal qualifier connected Thursday evening.

For his heroic amusement with the bat, Jitesh won player-of-the-match award.

“I won’t beryllium capable to explicit my thoughts. I inactive cannot judge that I played specified an innings. I was trying to enactment successful the infinitesimal and ticker the shot arsenic intimately arsenic possible," Jitesh said during the post-match presentation.

RCB were successful a beardown presumption erstwhile opener Virat Kohli and Mayank Agarwal were batting together. However, Kohli was dismissed for 54 successful the 12th implicit with the visitors needing 105 runs to win.

In walked Jitesh and helium followed the proposal of his ‘mentor’ Dinesh Karthik to instrumentality the crippled deep. “I wasn’t reasoning of thing astatine that time. When Virat Kohli got out, I decided to instrumentality the crippled deep. Like my mentor, guru Dinesh Karthik Anna told me, ‘Any situation, you person to instrumentality the crippled deep, and you person the caliber that you tin decorativeness the crippled anytime," helium said.

Jitesh was caught erstwhile connected 49 but was saved by a backfoot no-ball from bowler Digvesh Rathi. In the aforesaid over, Digvesh appealed for a tally retired astatine the non-striker’s extremity with Jitesh retired his crease, but the 3rd umpire deemed it arsenic not out.

Capitalising connected the chances, Jitesh took his squad implicit the line.

“I was getting cramps due to the fact that determination was a batch of unit connected me. It is simply a large franchise, but I americium enjoying the pressure. I person Virat bhai, Krunal bhai, Bhuvi bhai. When I look astatine them, I get excited that I americium playing with specified large names. I bask that pressure," Jitesh said.

RCB person conscionable 1 time to retrieve earlier they instrumentality to the tract for their archetypal qualifier against PBKS scheduled to beryllium held successful Mullanpur (Punjab).

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