IPL 2025 mega auction was very special in many ways. This time all records were broken in the auction. The biggest bid in the history of IPL was seen this time only. Rishabh Pant, Shreyas Iyer and Venkatesh Iyer were the most expensive players. At the same time, in this auction, the luck of one player changed in such a way that no one could even believe it. The salary of this player has increased by 5500%. This player, who earned lakhs till last season, has been bought for crores this time.
This player’s salary increased by 5500% in IPL
The auction for IPL 2025 was held on 24 and 25 November in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Like every time, this time too the RCB team took many surprising decisions. Royal Challengers Bangalore spent a lot of money to buy a young player, whose name is Jitesh Sharma. This auction was very special for wicketkeeper batsman Jitesh Sharma. The right-handed wicketkeeper-batsman was bought by Royal Challengers Bangalore for Rs 11 crore, which surprised everyone.
Let us tell you, till last season, Jitesh Sharma’s salary in IPL was only Rs 20 lakh. He was bought by the Punjab team in the IPL 2022 auction at his base price. After this, it was maintained at the same price for the next two seasons. Last season, he was also the vice-captain of the Punjab team. But this time he was not retained by Punjab and he came to the auction where Jitesh got 55 times more money than his previous IPL salary. It is believed that RCB needed a keeper-batsman to replace Dinesh Karthik, in such a situation RCB has played a big bet on Jitesh.
Jitesh Sharma’s IPL career
Jitesh Sharma started his IPL career from IPL 2022. So far in IPL, he has scored 730 runs in 40 matches at an average of 22.81. His overall strike rate is above 151 but last year it was 131.69. Last season he could score only 187 runs in 14 matches. For this reason the team also released him. Let us tell you, Jitesh Sharma has also been a part of Mumbai Indians team. Jitesh was a part of Mumbai Indians in 2016 and 2017, but he did not get a chance to play.