Lucknow Super Veterans captain Rishabh Pant won praise against Royal Challengers Bangalore captain Jitesh Sharma for choosing a non-strayer run-out appeal. Digwesh RathiIPL 2025 matches in 70. The game was important for RCB, who was finishing a top-two to achieve two opportunities to reach the IPL final.
Meanwhile, the incident took place in the 17th over of RCB's Chase, Jitesh, the bus reached fifty in the IPL, with a free hit with six six, to take the side on the line. At the fourth delivery of the over, Digvesh broke the stump out of his crease with the RCB skipper at the end of the non-strayer.
While Rathi appealed and the on-field umpires decided to the third umpire, LSG Skipper intervened and withdrew the appeal. The third umpire confirmed that Jitesh was out of his ground, but Pant's return meant that he survived. After the large screen was not displayed, Jitesh went up and hugged the pants.
Interestingly, his first ball rejected the right-handed batsman a reverse sweep, only to emerge as a back-foot no-ball for it because Rathi's foot touched the return crease. No-ball proved expensive, as RCB Skipper survived while batting at 49 and went to bring his fifty with one six.
Finally, Jitesh, with the heroes of Mayank Agarwal, helped RCB to chase the target with ease of sealing his place in qualifier 1, where he would take to Punjab Kings on 29 May. Jeet also meant that RCB became the first team in IPL history, which was to win all seven matches in the same season.
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