This player's luck changed overnight, their salary increased by 5500%, this happened for the first time in the history of IPL

IPL 2025 Mega Auction was very special in many ways. This time all the records were broken in the auction. The biggest bid in the history of IPL was seen this time. Rishabh Pant, Shreyas Iyer, and Venkatesh Iyer were the most expensive players. At the same time, the fate of a player changed in this auction in such a way that no one could believe it. The salary of this player has increased by 5500%. This player, who used to earn lakhs till last season, has been bought in 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 named 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 at his base price in the IPL 2022 auction. After this, he was retained at the same price for the next two seasons. He was also the vice-captain of the Punjab team last season. But this time he was not retained by Punjab and he came to the auction where Jitesh got 55 times more money than his last IPL salary. It is believed that RCB needed a keeper-batsman to replace Dinesh Karthik, so RCB has placed a big bet on Jitesh.

Jitesh Sharma started his IPL career with 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 he was also released by the team. Let us tell you, Jitesh Sharma has also been a part of the Mumbai Indians team. Jitesh was a part of Mumbai Indians in 2016 and 2017, but he did not get a chance to play.