Dinesh Karthik, the mastermind behind RCB’s win over Lucknow, revealed the full story after the match, says Jitesh Sharma

Sports News: Jitesh Sharma rocked RCB in the last league match of IPL 2025 against Lucknow Supergiants. He played an unbeaten innings of 85 runs in 33 balls, which included 6 sixes and 8 fours. RCB won by 6 wickets on the basis of the stormy innings of this player and captured the second position in the points table. RCB has made it to Qualifier-1, where it will face Punjab Kings on 29 May. This match is to be played in Mullanpur, Chandigarh. Jitesh Sharma has credited batting coach Dinesh Karthik

Dinesh Karthik’s Key Advice

For his brilliant innings . Jitesh told that Dinesh Karthik had advised him to 'keep an eye on the ball and play normal cricket shots', which helped him play a great innings. Thanks to this innings of Jitesh, RCB achieved the target of 228 runs with eight balls to spare. Jitesh also shared an unbeaten partnership of 107 runs with Mayank Agarwal (41 not out).

Dinesh Karthik had given advice to Jitesh in batting

Jitesh Sharma said in a video posted on IPLT20.com, 'I did not have any special calculation. I spoke to DK (Dinesh Karthik) and he said, 'Just keep watching the ball and play normal cricket shots and take the match till the end. If you keep playing, I believe you will finish the match.' Jitesh said that we had already planned for every bowler what we could do. I was repeatedly reminding myself of the same.

Mayank Agarwal’s Crucial Support

When Jitesh was asked about Mayank Agarwal 's advice, he said, 'He was telling me what to do. He was repeatedly telling me what was going on in the match, because I was in my zone. Mayank was giving me the right shape and guiding me in the run chase.' Let us tell you that this was the third biggest successful run chase in IPL history. Earlier, RCB had lost against Sunrisers Hyderabad even after reaching close to the target.