Veteran India batter Dinesh Karthik made his worldwide comeback after a protracted wait of 1066 days on Thursday. Karthik’s jaw-dropping performances for Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) in the IPL 2022 obtained him a spot again in the Indian crew in the primary T20I of the continuing five-match sequence towards South Africa.
Notably, Karthik performed his final sport sporting the Indian jersey again in 2019 when India misplaced towards New Zealand in the World Cup semi-final.
The Tamil Nadu cricketer, nevertheless, solely obtained two deliveries to face in his comeback sport towards South Africa and he stayed unbeaten on a solitary run as India posted 211/4 in 20 overs.
There is little question that Karthik’s new function as a finisher will assist Team India, particularly in the T20 World Cup 2022, scheduled to happen in Australia later this 12 months. But whether or not Karthik will get a spot in the T20 WC squad stays an even bigger query. Speaking 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 in the 20-overs showpiece occasion.
Ponting heaped praises on Karthik’s wonderful batting show for RCB in the IPL 2022, the place the right-handed batter scored 330 runs at a strike price of greater than 183. Ponting mentioned that he want to see Karthik batting at no.5 or no.6 for India in the upcoming T20 World Cup and could be shocked if the Chennai-born misses out.
“I would have him, and I’d have him in at that five or six role. The way he finished games for RCB this year, he took his game to another level. When you look at the IPL, you want your better players to maybe be able to win two or three, maybe four games through the season,” Ponting instructed Isa Guha in The ICC Review present.
“If you can get that out of them, it’s probably going to be a really good return. But Dinesh probably had a bigger impact on many of the games than most of the other RCB players did this year,” Ponting added.