Who Said What? What did Jitesh Sharma & Rishabh Pant say after LSG vs RCB, Match 70?

Royal Challengers Bengaluru bagged a six-wicket win over the Lucknow Super Giants in the 70th match of the IPL 2025 season at the Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ekana Cricket Stadium, Lucknow on Tuesday, May 27.

Moving into the details of the game, LSG batted first after losing the toss. Mitchell Marsh was exceptional with his 67-run knock off 37 balls with four fours and five sixes. However, the best knock came from Rishabh Pant, who smacked 118* off 61 balls with 11 fours and eight sixes.

Eventually, LSG posted a daunting total of 227/3 in 20 overs. Nuwan Thushara, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, and Romario Shepherd scalped one wicket apiece for RCB.

In the chase, Virat Kohli (54) started off well with Phil Salt (30) in the powerplay overs. Later, Mayank Agarwal (41*) continued from where the openers left off despite other batters losing wickets.

Stand-in captain Jitesh Sharma was simply impressive, smacking 85* off 33 balls with eight fours and six sixes at a strike rate of 257.58 to steer his side to a six-wicket win in 18.4 overs. On that note, let’s take a look at who said what after LSG vs RCB, Match 70.

LSG captain Rishabh Pant

“Eventually you have to play 40 overs of good cricket. 20 overs will definitely not save you in a T20 game and that's been our story. There were a lot of injury concerns before the tournament, that's something that hurt us going through the season. (On his hundred) I was feeling well with each and every match but sometimes it just doesn't come off. Today I made sure that if I am starting well I should make a big one. 

Like all the experienced players do, learning from the best always. Whenever you get a start, try to make it as big as possible. I was trying to play the field, how they were going to bowl, that was something I kept in mind. Playing through the line and looking for the areas and the gaps kept it very simple. Played every ball with the same intensity and kept on playing with the same intensity throughout the innings. 

(In this season) There'll be a lot of areas where we'll be talking and looking to improve ourselves but the season is just ending, I don't know where the talk is going to go. Just want to switch off for a few days, not think about cricket and then the England series is coming up and just prepare for that in a good frame of mind. 

(On the positives) The way our batting unit has come up, there have been some special bowling performances also. Digvesh Rathi is one of them, Avesh bowled some crucial overs. We've been getting chances but we weren't able to maintain it for a longer period of time.”

RCB captain and player of the match Jitesh Sharma 

“I can't express my thoughts, I was thinking about just staying in the present. When Virat got out I thought of taking the game deep and that is what my mentor (Dinesh Karthik) tells me that the kind of calibre I have I can finish the game from any situation. 

This is a very big franchise and I am enjoying the pressure and when I see these players (like Virat, Krunal and Bhuvi) I feel excited that I am getting to play with these players. We will enjoy this moment and whatever momentum we got in this game, we will take it forward (into the next game). 

Credit goes to Rajat for giving me this responsibility (maintaining the excellent record of winning away from home this season). Hazlewood is fit and the belief system in our team is very strong and whichever players you see, everyone is a match-winner and even if we lose 3-4 wickets, we always had the belief.”

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