Cricket News sort by Krishnakumar Dinesh Karthik

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It is often said that one man’s pain could be another person’s gain. In Dinesh Karthik’s case, the only reason he was on the flight to Bangladesh was because skipper MS Dhoni injured himself at the last minute.

Having beaten India A in both the earlier clashes, and in the second one rather comprehensively, Australia A went into the final at Pretoria as favourites. India’s A bowling was the weak link, which the Aussies had exposed in both their wins, as India lost in spite of batting rather well.

India worked hard to defeat Zimbabwe by 58 runs in the Second ODI at Harare. Jaydev Unadkat proved to be the man with the Midas touch in the Indian victory taking four wickets and running out the Zimbabwean Captain Brendan Taylor.

For the prolonged period that Dinesh Karthik was away from the Indian team, it was said that he was unlucky to be playing in the same era as MS Dhoni.

India’s victory over Sri Lanka in the opening warm-up tie wasn’t a comfortable one. They had to work extremely hard, and only pulled away from Lanka towards the end.

Virat Kohli and Dinesh Karthik scored superb centuries to help India overhaul a massive target of 334 in their warm-up match against Sri Lanka at Birmingham. Kohli scored 144 from 120 balls with 11 fours and 3 sixes to set up India’s run chase.

It has taken three long years, but Dinesh Karthik has finally made a comeback into the Indian one-day international squad. Karthik’s comeback bid was bolstered by a memorable domestic season during which he scored a healthy 577 runs averaging nearly 65 for Tamil Nadu coupled with a wonderful IPL season...