Dinesh Karthik is gearing up for his last IPL season. However, after seeing a shot from the veteran keeper in the nets, RCB fans feel Karthik shouldn’t even start in the first playing XI.
RCB will get their IPL 2024 campaign underway on the opening night of the tournament, on March 22 at the Chepauk, taking on the defending champions, MS Dhoni’s Chennai Super Kings in CSK’s own den.
Two weeks out from the start of the tournament, the 38-year-old Dinesh Karthik had confirmed that he will retire from IPL at the end of this year’s season. While Karthik seems a first-choice player in RCB’s XI, in the wicket-keeper and finisher’s role, if he couldn’t pull up his socks and get going with the bat, he could be dropped from the side for youngster Anuj Rawat.
RCB have started their nets and training session. Recently, they had a match simulation session at the Chinnaswamy stadium.
Dinesh Karthik played a poor shot to left-arm pacer Yash Dayal. Karthik couldn’t clear the boundary and gave a chance to a fielder at long-on, however, the fielder dropped the catch. RCB fans are scared even before the start of the season seeing this poorly timed and executed shot from Dinesh Karthik.
See the video below and check RCB fans’ reactions
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— 𝘿 (@DilipVK18) March 15, 2024
RCB fans scared after Dinesh Karthik played a poor shot in the nets:
Dinesh Karthik is one of the few players who have featured in all editions of the IPL from 2008. He did, however, had a poor season last year, when he managed only 140 runs at a strike rate of 134 – a fall of the cliff from his IPL 2022 season when he scored 330 runs at a strike rate of 183.
Karthik has played for 6 IPL franchises: Delhi Daredevils (2008-14), Kings XI Punjab (2011), Mumbai Indians (2012-13), Gujarat Lions (2016-17), Kolkata Knight Riders (2018-21) and RCB (2015, 2022-present). He led KKR for a couple of seasons.
In 240 IPL games, Karthik has scored 4516 runs at an average of 26 and a strike rate of 132 with 20 half-centuries
