New Delhi. Dinesh Karthik, playing the second most explosive innings of this season, showed that he is living up to the role he has been given in the team. The result of his innings was that the team was able to score 190 runs against the West Indies. After the match, even the captain could not believe that the team scored 190. With this innings, Dinesh Karthik did justice to his role.
This view was also seen in the first T20 match against West Indies and it was Karthik who batted very fast in the last time of the innings and made the Indian team’s score 190 for 6 wickets in 20 overs and the match was won by West Indies. carried away from his grip.
- Dinesh Karthik played an innings of 41 not out
- 2 sixes 4 fours in his innings
- Karthik scored runs at a strike rate of 215.79
- Selected Player of the Match
Dinesh Karthik named ‘Player of the Match’
In this match, Indian captain Rohit Sharma played an innings of 64 runs and kept the Indian team from one side. When Rohit Sharma was out, the Indian team had scored 127 runs and India’s fifth wicket fell as a hitman. After this it seemed that India’s score would not be much and immediately Ravindra Jadeja was out on the last ball of the 16th over and at that time India’s score was 6 for 138 runs.
After the dismissal of Rohit Sharma, Dinesh Karthik came to bat at number seven and the way India’s wicket was falling, it did not seem that the team’s score would reach 190, but in four overs, Dinesh Karthik batted brilliantly. Of. Although R Ashwin played well with him and scored 13 not out off 10 balls, but Karthik had something else to say. He scored an unbeaten 41 off 19 balls with the help of 2 sixes and 4 fours at a strike rate of 215.79. That is, a total of 52 runs were scored from India in four overs. For this unmatched innings of Karthik, he got the title of Player of the Match. On the other hand, West Indies lost this match by 68 runs.
Regarding this innings, Dinesh Karthik said after the victory in the match that the pitch was very sticky and it was not easy to bat here. Talking about his role, he said that it is a very interesting role and you need the support of the coach and the captain and it really helped. It is important to assess the wicket and what kind of shots you have to play comes with practice.