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IPL 2025: Royal Challengers Bangalore has achieved a big target by 225 runs for the first time in IPL history. Jeetesh Sharma was the hero of his record -breaking victory. Wicketkeeper Batter Jeetesh played such an unmatched innings at number six that …Read more

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Highlights
- Royal Challengers Bangalore defeated Lucknow Supergiants by 6 wickets.
- For RCB, Jeetesh Sharma played an unbeaten innings of 85 runs in 33 balls.
- This is the biggest innings at number six in the successful run to the IPL history.
New Delhi. Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) captain Jitesh Sharma’s 85 -run innings proved a dwarf of 227 runs of Lucknow Supergiants as a dwarf. What had not happened in the 18 -year history of IPL has happened yet. RCB made it to the top-2 in the point table by taking the biggest run in its history. Player of the match Jitesh Sharma said after the match that it is difficult for him to express his feelings in words.
Royal Challengers Bangalore lost 4 wickets for 122 runs chasing a huge target against Lucknow Supergiants. When Virat Kohli was dismissed on the team score of 122, acting captain Jitesh Sharma landed on the field. At that time, the path of RCB looked very difficult. Jeetesh Sharma made the way easier by hitting eight fours and six sixes in an unbeaten innings of 33 balls. He got a good support of Mayank Agarwal. Both of them shared an unbeaten partnership of 107 runs in 45 balls for the fifth wicket and won the team. RCB achieved the target at the loss of 4 wickets in 18.4 overs.
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Jitesh broke Dhoni’s record
This is the first time in IPL history when anroyal Challengers Bangalore defeated Lucknow Supergiants by 6 wickets.
For RCB, Jitesh Sharma scored 85 runs in 33 balls.
This is the biggest innings at number six in the successful run to the IPL history.
While chasing the target, Batter scored more than 80 runs at number six and has won his team. Earlier, MS Dhoni’s record of playing the biggest innings at number six in the successful runchez was in the name of MS Dhoni. In 2018, Dhoni played an unbeaten innings of 70 runs against RCB. Andre Russell has also played 70 runs in 2022 against Punjab Kings and Careful Pollard RCB at number six. Jeeteesh Sharma has broken the record of MS Dhoni, Andre Russell and Karen Pollard in one go to the same unbeaten innings of 85 runs.
Jeetesh Sharma said after the match, ‘I cannot tell my happiness in words. I can’t believe that I have played such an innings. I was just trying to live in that moment. I was trying to stay at the crease. Jeetesh, who came to the crease after the dismissal of Virat Kohli (54) in the 12th over of the match, made a big shot against every bowler.
Yes, there was pressure on captaincy
Jeetesh Sharma has been made the caretaker captain after injury to the Rajat Patidar’s finger. Jitesh said that there was pressure on him to captain, but the experienced players of the team got full support. He said, ‘I tried to take the match till the end after Virat Bhai was dismissed and was successful in it. Today there was a lot of pressure on me but I was enjoying it. If I see Virat Bhai, Krunal (Pandya) Bhai and Bhubaneswar (Kumar) brother, I get a lot of confidence.
When asked about a match to be held after just one day, he said, ‘I will try to enjoy this moment (victory) at the moment. Also, I would like to recover from fatigue. My Guru Dinesh Karthik Anna told me that if I take the match till the end, I have the ability to win the team. This is what I did.

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Active in journalism for two decades. Responsibility of Sports as Associate Editor Sports in News18Hindi from April 2020. Page-1 in Dainik Bhaskar, Dainik Jagran, Amar Ujala newspapers before News18 Hindi, Sports, India and abroad, Election D … Read more