RCB made its share in Jitesh Sharma for Rs 11 crore.
IPL 2025 Auction: Before the Indian Premier League i.e. IPL season to be held in the year 2025, a mega auction is being organized in Jeddah city of Saudi Arabia, in which a lot of money is being seen showered on Indian players. In this, one name is also that of Team India’s young wicketkeeper batsman Jitesh Sharma, who was seen playing for Punjab Kings team in the last IPL season, now he will be seen playing for Royal Challengers Bangalore i.e. RCB team in the next season. If we look at Jitesh Sharma’s IPL salary, there has been a huge increase in it, which you will never get in your salary.
RCB made its share in Jitesh for Rs 11 crore
Jitesh Sharma got a place in the wicketkeeper batsman slot in the mega auction of IPL 2025, in which his base price was Rs 1 crore. When his name was called, Chennai Super Kings showed their interest in taking him, in which RCB had made up their mind to take Jitesh from the very beginning. After this, RCB also had a bidding war with Lucknow Super Giants and Delhi Capitals regarding Jitesh Sharma, which stopped at Rs 7 crore. After this, Punjab Kings, whose part Jitesh was in the last season, decided to use RTM and RCB directly increased Jitesh’s price to Rs 11 crore and Punjab also pulled out and thus RCB made Jitesh a part of their team. Was successful in making it.
Talking about Jitesh, he was a part of the Mumbai Indians team in the 2016 and 2017 IPL seasons but he did not get a chance to play a single match. After this, in the year 2022, Jitesh was included in their team by Punjab Kings for Rs 20 lakh and in the same season he also got a chance to debut in IPL. From here onwards Jitesh did not look back and impressed everyone with his performance. Jitesh Sharma’s IPL salary last season also was Rs 20 lakh, after which it has now directly increased to Rs 11 crore and hence an increase of 5500 percent has been seen in it.
Jitesh Sharma becomes part of RCB.
Jitesh Sharma’s performance has been like this till now
If we look at the performance of 31 year old Jitesh Sharma in IPL, he has scored 730 runs in 40 matches at an average of 22.81, which may not include even a single half-century innings, but batting in the lower order, Jitesh helped the team win. Has played an important role. Jitesh’s strike rate in IPL has been 151.14.
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