India currently has no shortage of wicketkeeper batsmen. in Ishan kishan, Sanju Samson, KL Rahul and Rishabh Pant in India have many players ready to take the glove in his white ball format. But where Jitesh’s USP comes into play is hitting his spot he prefers.
“Aaj se tu hamara mid-level batsman… (As of today, you are our intermediate hitter…)” Jitesh Sharma wasn’t sure how to react to coach Pritam Gandhi’s recent words, but after seven seasons of batting, T20 Vidhava was never an easy task.
Jitesh accepted the challenge and blindly trusted Gandhi’s judgment. A 100-man top-flight veteran and Vidharba’s coach at the time, he was calculated based on several factors, including Nagpur’s scorching summer, an underperforming Vidharba midfield, and wet training on his pitch. I was taking risks. Combined, they gave Jitesh Sharma’s career a nitro-his boost and gave him a more difficult but less crowded road to stardom. “At that time, the middle order of Syed Mushtaq Ali T20s did not go so well. help hogi. “I was asked to hit mid-level in one of my practice matches,” Jitesh told the Hindustan Times.
Weather conditions and training timing also played a big role in course changes. “Summer in Nagpur is very uncomfortable. It is too hot and humid to train after 11am. So our practice session started at 6am. But the court was wet in the morning, so it was difficult to win the opening match. I didn’t hit as cleanly as I thought. One day I swapped positions with a medium-range club and two, three he hit a six,” Jitesh said.
The move had a surprising effect for Jitesh and Vidarbha. The former’s strike rate experienced an unprecedented upward curve, with the team’s total beginning to reach 180 from a decline of 160. The right-handed wicket-keeper batsman hit a straight half-century as a finisher. He finished the season with 6 of his 19. In 2021-22 he quickly earned his IPL contract from the Punjab Kings with his seven innings most in Syed Mushtaq Ali T20.
Opener Jitesh Sharma was previously with the Mumbai Indians where he was in the IPL but in 2017 he failed to make it into the XI. Five years later, finisher Jitesh not only earned his IPL cap, but also emerged as the focus of the team’s finishers all season, batting 163 in his freshman year. His exploits continued in domestic cricket. He almost single-handedly led Vidaba to the knockout stages of his Syed Mushtaq Ali T20s and contributed to the win. In the semi-final against Mumbai, he did his best in the final over where he scored 24 to 46 balls, including three sixes, but failed to progress to the final.
However, the selection committee found that he had hit 6 of his 13 in his 10 games. The 29-year-old earned his first call-up in India, appearing in the remaining two of his T20I games against Sri Lanka, replacing the injured Sanju his Samson. No coincidence proved when he signed the New Zealand T20Is due to start on 27th January.