{"id":9972,"date":"2025-12-12T13:24:50","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T07:54:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=670643"},"modified":"2025-12-12T13:25:44","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T07:55:44","slug":"why-did-jitesh-sharma-touch-harleen-deols-feet-heres-what-we-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/why-did-jitesh-sharma-touch-harleen-deols-feet-heres-what-we-know\/","title":{"rendered":"Why did Jitesh Sharma touch Harleen Deol\u2019s feet? Here\u2019s what we know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"181\" data-end=\"312\">A day after India\u2019s 51-run defeat to South Africa in the 2nd T20I at New Chandigarh, the internet is buzzing with one unexpected question: <strong data-start=\"453\" data-end=\"507\">\u201cWhy did Jitesh Sharma touch Harleen Deol\u2019s feet?\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"511\" data-end=\"784\">The wicketkeeper-batter, who scored a fiery 27 off 17 balls, unintentionally created a viral moment after the match when he walked up to Indian women\u2019s cricketer <strong data-start=\"673\" data-end=\"689\">Harleen Deol<\/strong> and touched her feet in a joking way. What followed was instant social-media comedy gold.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"786\" data-end=\"945\">Fans were quick to notice something hilarious \u2014 <strong data-start=\"834\" data-end=\"911\">Harleen looked ready with a blessing gesture even before Jitesh bent down<\/strong>, sparking playful rumours online.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"947\" data-end=\"1102\">From \u201cHarleen knew this was coming\u201d to \u201cpre-approved blessings for next match performance,\u201d the inside jokes spread faster than India\u2019s Powerplay collapse.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Jitesh Sharma touched the feet of Harleen Deol \ud83d\ude4f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/89NXxFHqL1\">pic.twitter.com\/89NXxFHqL1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 VIKAS (@Vikas662005) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Vikas662005\/status\/1999321947235319865?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 12, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1104\" data-end=\"1292\">But behind the humour, the gesture had a simple explanation: <strong data-start=\"1165\" data-end=\"1176\">respect<\/strong>. Jitesh was acknowledging Harleen\u2019s achievements, including her role in India\u2019s Women\u2019s World Cup-winning campaign.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1294\" data-end=\"1532\">The match itself was dominated by Quinton de Kock\u2019s 90(46), a late surge from Donovan Ferreira and David Miller, and a tough outing for Indian pacers Jasprit Bumrah and Arshdeep Singh. India\u2019s chase ended at 162, levelling the series 1-1.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1534\" data-end=\"1727\">Yet, despite the loss, it was Jitesh and Harleen who stole the pre-match spotlight \u2014 with fans joking that <strong data-start=\"1642\" data-end=\"1726\">if blessings truly count, Jitesh is definitely 1\u20130 up heading into the next T20I<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A day after India\u2019s 51-run defeat to South Africa in the 2nd T20I at New Chandigarh, the internet is buzzing\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":32488,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4057],"class_list":["post-9972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-top-stories"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}