Veteran India batter Dinesh Karthik made his worldwide comeback after an extended wait of 1066 days on Thursday. Karthik’s jaw-dropping performances for Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) within the IPL 2022 acquired him a spot again within the Indian workforce in the first T20I of the ongoing five-match series against South Africa.
Notably, Karthik performed his final recreation carrying the Indian jersey again in 2019 when India misplaced towards New Zealand within the World Cup semi-final.
The Tamil Nadu cricketer, nevertheless, solely acquired two deliveries to face in his comeback recreation towards South Africa and he stayed unbeaten on a solitary run as India posted 211/4 in 20 overs.
There isn’t a doubt that Karthik’s new function as a finisher will assist Group India, particularly within the T20 World Cup 2022, scheduled to happen in Australia later this 12 months. However whether or not Karthik will get a spot within the T20 WC squad stays a much bigger query. Talking about the identical, former Aussie skipper, Ricky Ponting reckoned that the Indian wicketkeeper-batter has all of the potential to play the function of a finisher for India within the 20-overs showpiece occasion.
Ponting heaped praises on Karthik’s glorious batting show for RCB within the IPL 2022, the place the right-handed batter scored 330 runs at a strike charge of greater than 183. Ponting stated that he wish to see Karthik batting at no.5 or no.6 for India within the upcoming T20 World Cup and can be stunned if the Chennai-born misses out.
“I’d have him, and I’d have him in at that 5 or 6 function. The way in which he completed video games for RCB this 12 months, he took his recreation to a different stage. Once you have a look at the IPL, you need your higher gamers to possibly be capable to win two or three, possibly 4 video games via the season,” Ponting advised Isa Guha in The ICC Overview present.
“If you may get that out of them, it’s most likely going to be a very good return. However Dinesh most likely had a much bigger affect on lots of the video games than a lot of the different RCB gamers did this 12 months,” Ponting added.
