Method for Jitesh Madness: Dinesh Karthik reveals how the final RCB was shaped

Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) Batting Coach Dinesh Karthik looked every piece of a proud mentor after Captain Jitesh Sharma created the best knocking of his career IPL to help RCB attach space in a qualifier 1.

Sensational Sensational 85 Jitesh powered the team to their highest persecution AA Commanding six goals over Super Giants Lucknow. His knocking hit as a storm in the dead nightly, tireless and impossible. It was clean, unfiltered bloodshed; The species that changed pressure on the playground. Bowlers became passers -by when he had tore with a smile.

Karthik was honest in his interaction after the match and revealed layers behind Jitesh’s growth as a quiet finish of the MS Dhoni-Esque.

“Jitesh Sharma is a special cricket. He worked really hard in offseason. It’s a lot of work to understand how to chase big sums and how calm remain in such situations,” Karthik said during an interaction with the Siamar.

“Today it has been a great example of what happens when you support your skills, and more importantly, you trust the shots you know. It’s also about delivery in great moments,” he added.

The RCB belief in Jitesh was obvious when they lifted him to? 11 Crore at the IPL 2025 auction, despite the forgotten season 2024 with the Pandjab King-Kde, registered five single-digit scores in twelve shifts. Nevertheless, the franchise was convinced that it could develop in a finisher they needed in the post-karthik era.

“Sometimes, as a player and a leader, you need your older players to get off,” Karthik continued. “He played a lot of portraits, but today it was great to see him how fifty and more importantly, stay outside and take us across the border.” Jitesh Sharma helped RCB beat LSG by 6 goals. Courtesy: AP

The turnover this season was obvious. Jitesh began to contribute key posts at the beginning of the campaign. Quickfire 33 of 21 balls against Gujarat Titans rescued RCB from 42/4 and blazing 40* out of 19 against the Indians Mumbai helped them publish Mammoth 221/5.

He also carved the unique space statistically one of the four Indian doughs with more than 100 T20 shifts and a career strike over 150 years. In the IPL matches, its strike rate rises to 192.07 during death (16-20), emphasizing its role as one of the most amazing finishers.

His skill was perfectly inserted into the RCB strategy, especially after Karthik’s retirement left a glaring emptiness. With his form, which needed the course correction, it was Karthik’s mentoring that helped Jitesh re -involve his game and rediscovered his edge.

At night record pursuit of RCBJitesh walked in and clarified his intentions with the border of the first ball. But with Akash Singh he admitted only seven runs in 13th, RCB was still under pressure-89 necessary from the last seven exceeding.

Mayank Agarwal, who provided early momentum 27 out of 15, held one end. But Jitesh took the lead and hammered Ben O’Rouke for six and four in the 17th over the fact that he ruled the persecution.

Then came the key 15. Jitesh turned to Shahbaz Ahmed and attracted two, six and other boundaries from Agarwal took 21 runs. The equation suddenly shifted: 51 necessary of five exceeding.

Avesh Khan saw another one over two other boundaries from Jitesh before he came to his happiness. Jitesh tried to turn Digvesha Rathi’s back sweeping and was caught at a back point, but repeated repetition of Rathi crossed the return fold. Jitesh launched the resulting free intervention through Deep Midwicket and raised his first IPL fifty only 22 balls.

The drama did not end.

When Rathi hit the last ball over it, interrupted his action and broke the stumps at the end of Jitesh, who wasn’t enough, was beyond his fold. However, the TV referee decided not to be out, and quoted that Rathi had already completed his increase in delivery. Meanwhile, Rishabh Pant, the Captain of the Opposition, withdrew the appeal.

With 28 needs from the last three exceeded, Jitesh ended it in a style that O’Rouke for two four and two sixes before he sealed an agreement with the slogon of six six of Ayush Badoni in the penultimate.

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