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Dinesh Karthik scored 55 runs off 27 balls in the fourth T20 match against South Africa. Karthik hit 9 fours and 2 sixes in his fiery innings.
Dinesh Karthik, who returned to the Indian team after a long wait by showing a superhit show in IPL 2022 (Dinesh Kathik) He did wonders in the fourth T20 match against South Africa. Handling the faltering innings, Karthik made a big splash in front of Hardik Pandya. Actually, after the dismissal of captain Rishabh Pant, Karthik came to support Pandya at the crease. On the fourth ball of the 14th over, Karthik hit Johnson’s ball to the left of the point, which was on the right side of Keshav Maharaj. He wanted to take a single on this, but he did not get Pandya’s support from the other end. He was in no mood to take a single. At the same time, Karthik walked out of the crease.
Karthik storms off after being dismissed
The striker got a quick throw at the end. At one time Karthik had also accepted defeat, but Karthik was lucky that the ball was not hit directly. Till this time he had not even opened his account, but after that he started thrashing the bowlers. Karthik played a brilliant innings of 55 runs in 27 balls in the fourth T20 match. He hit 9 fours and 2 sixes in his innings. At the same time, Pandya played an innings of 46 runs in 31 balls. He missed his half-century by just 4 runs. India scored 169 for 6 in the allotted over on the basis of the quick innings of Karthik and Pandya. At one point India had lost its 4 wickets for just 81 runs.
In the first match, Pandya refused to take a single.
In the past too, there has been a slight lack of coordination between Pandya and Karthik. In fact, in the last over of the first T20 match against South Africa, Pandya refused to take a single. On the third ball of the last over, Pandya hit a six off Norkea. Dinesh Karthik was standing at the other end. On the 5th ball of the over, Pandya played a shot towards deep mid-wicket. Here Karthik was in the mood to take out a single, but on this ball Pandya refused to take a single and then he added 2 more runs on the last ball. In the first match, Pandya remained unbeaten on 31 and Karthik was unbeaten on 1 run.
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