RCB got its stake in Jitesh Sharma for Rs 11 crore.
IPL 2025 Auction: Ahead of the Indian Premier League season i.e. IPL which will be held in the year 2025, a mega auction is being organized in the city of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia in which a huge amount of money is seen being poured out about Indian players. In this, a name is also that of the young batsman of the Indian team, Jitesh Sharma, who was seen playing for the Punjab Kings team in the last season of IPL, will now be seen playing for Royal Challengers Bangalore i.e. the team RCB in the upcoming season. If we look at Jitesh Sharma’s IPL salary, there has been a huge increase, which he will never get in his salary.
RCB got its stake in Jitesh for Rs 11 crore
Jitesh Sharma bagged a spot as a wicketkeeper batsman in the mega auction of IPL 2025, where his base price was Rs 1 crore. When his name was mentioned, Chennai Super Kings showed their interest in signing him, in which RCB had decided to take Jitesh from the beginning. After this, RCB also had a bidding war with Lucknow Super Giants and Delhi Capitals regarding Jitesh Sharma which was stopped at Rs 7 crore. After this, Punjab Kings, whose part of Jitesh was in last season, decided to use RTM and RCB directly increased Jitesh’s price to Rs 11 crore and Punjab also backed out and thus RCB made Jitesh a part of your team. .
Talking about Jitesh, he was part of the Mumbai Indians team in the 2016 and 2017 IPL seasons but did not get a chance to play a single match. After this, in the year 2022, Punjab Kings included Jitesh in their team for Rs 20 lakh and in the same season he also got the opportunity to debut in IPL. From here on, Jitesh didn’t look back and impressed everyone with his performance. Jitesh Sharma’s IPL salary last season was also Rs 20 lakh, after which it has now directly increased to Rs 11 crore and thus an increase of 5,500 per cent has been observed.
Jitesh Sharma joins RCB.
Jitesh Sharma’s performance has been like this so far.
If we look at 31-year-old Jitesh Sharma’s performance in IPL, he scored 730 runs in 40 matches at an average of 22.81, which may not include even a single half-century innings, but Jitesh, batting in the lower order, Helped the team win. It has played an important role. Jitesh’s strike rate in IPL has been 151.14.
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