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Royal Challengers Bengaluru vice-captain Jitesh Sharma said that the tag of a defending champion was not pressure-inducing.
“Mo Bobat, manager [of cricket], intelligibly said we are not defending... we are chasing the title,” Jitesh stated present connected Saturday (April 5, 2025), up of RCB’s clash against the Chennai Super Kings.
“We are bare similar we were past year. Lots of radical person forgotten that we are champions. This is simply a caller season. But we person the assurance that we person achieved something. With that confidence, we are going forward.”
By the clip RCB volition enactment up for its crippled against CSK, a afloat week would person passed since Rajat Patidar’s men played a lucifer – the IPL opener against Sunrisers Hyderabad, which they won by six wickets. But Jitesh felt that the agelong spread wouldn’t impact the team’s momentum.
“Our absorption kept everyone connected their toes. Even during the break, we played a signifier game. So, we are precise adjacent to that intensity. We are not reasoning that our squad had a break.”
Despite CSK’s duplicate losses to Rajasthan Royals and Punjab Kings, Jitesh said Ruturaj Gaikwad’s outfit cannot beryllium taken lightly.
“It tin beryllium anyone’s day. Someone tin people runs. Someone tin instrumentality a five-for. You can’t justice that the adjacent crippled volition beryllium the aforesaid if idiosyncratic had a atrocious lucifer successful the erstwhile game. We should respect each opponents equally, irrespective of what they person done successful the past.”
