Delhi: Nobody had an idea that in the last days of the season, an innings would be played which the cricket pundits would call the best innings of the season so far. That too for the RCB in which there are some names in the team in front of which the rest of the players do not get any discussion. Against Lucknow, Jitesh Sharma increased his identity of the lower middle order batsman manifold with the innings of 85* runs off just 33 balls. This number is the third largest IPL score of any batsman at 6 or below (above them: Hardik Pandya and Andre Russell) and MS Dhoni and Dinesh Karthik are not in these 3.
Jitesh was part of Pbks
The discussion started immediately as to who this Jitesh Sharma is and especially in qualifier 1, his figure was revealed from the front Punjab Kings. First of all, we watch IPL journey. This wicketkeeper-batsman was first taken by Mumbai Indians in 2016 for Rs 10 lakh and retained in 2017 but not in a single match. That is why when it was released, which team would have bets on seeing which records? The result is that out of IPL by 2021.
In the IPL 2022 auction, Punjab Kings bought and gave a chance for Rs 20 lakh, then they got a jackpot. Jitesh got a new identity of finisher and scored 234 runs at 163.64 strike rates in that season. He was also with him in 2023 and scored 309 runs at 156.06 strike rate. Due to this record, India got a chance to play T20 International and has played 9 matches so far.
Captained claimant also
Punjab Kings had to discuss such Jitesh Sharma as his star. That is why the most special thing is that the team made the vice -captain for IPL 2024. When the BCCI made a group photo program with the trophy of all the captains, before that season, before the IPL started, Punjab Kings sent the same Jitesh Sharma when Shikhar Dhawan was not available.
Even then, Punjab Kings Management played inside a game team for Shikhar Dhawan not playing in the second half of IPL 2024. Punjab Kings played the match against Rajasthan Royals in Mullampur on 13 April, while Jitesh’s name was written as captain in the match in the media. When the match took place, Captain Jitesh was not Sam Curren. Although there would have been no spectacle on this decision, but Jitesh, who was being projected as vice -captain till now, did not make him captain when needed? The team lost this match by 3 wickets. As if the storm has come on social media.
Sanjay Bangar gave clarification
The condition is that Chief Coach Sanjay Bangar had to clarify this decision of the franchise and the funny thing was that he dumped only after making Jitesh a vice -captain or projecting as a captain. It is present in the records that on 21 March 2024, after posting pictures of the IPL captain’s shoot, the team declared Jitesh as the new vice captain. Even then, Karan was promoted and Jitesh continued to play the role with the vice -captain.
This cleanliness of Sanjay Bangar increased the anger and that day the count of Punjab Kings Management’s friend reduced and critics increased. Bangar said that Karan was to be sent to represent the team at that pre-seasons in Chennai, but he could not leave the UK due to his late arrival. The IPL instructions was that it is necessary to send someone and when Jitesh was sent, he was not made the vice -captain. This explanation did not benefit from no benefit because Jitesh was continuously performing this duty and the person who was continuously printed in the media, was never wrongly told by the team management.
Jitesh captained in RCB
That is why when the IPL 2024 season for Punjab Kings changed in failure, then his friend or his performance on social media was not much sympathetic. The team was harmed by what happened, not Jitesh. RCB bought him for this season and when silver Patidars were not available, he made him captain. RCB made the biggest score of IPL history in this 27th May match and paid the trust on them.
That is why as soon as this equation was made that the qualifier 1 was to be played with Punjab Kings, the question came into the limelight whether he would take revenge on Punjab Kings in this qualifier? So far, 967 runs in 46 innings in the IPL are 155+ from the strike-rate and in the death overs, this strike rate is even higher. On it, Jitesh Sharma has to show the promotion of Rs 11 crore to his old team.
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