Dinesh Karthik may have retired from international cricket, domestic cricket and IPL, even though he spends more time in the commentary, but still his bat rises the same fire. 'DK', who has set his bat in the IPL, has now started showing the same stormy attitude in South Africa. For the first time, Joeburg Super Kings, who became the victim of these attitude of Karthik playing in the South African League SA20, against whom Karthik scored a hat -trick of sixes and saved the team trapped in trouble with a strong innings.
Dinesh Karthik's team Parl Royals faced Super Kings in the match played on Thursday 30 January in Johannesburg. In this entire season, Parl Royals had secured the first position so far with the highest win. The reason for this was to play an important role for different players in every match. This time the turn was Karthik, who did not disappoint. He took his team to a score of 150, which has lost 4 wickets for just 40 runs.
When Karthik came for batting, Parl lost the fourth wicket for 40 runs in just 5.1 overs. Soon the 5th wicket on the score of 68 also collapsed. In such a situation, senior batsman Karthik had all the responsibility. The former Indian wicketkeeper presented a view of his experience and taught a lesson to Joberg's bowlers. Karthik rained fours and sixes. During this, in the 13th over, Karthik hit 3 consecutive sixes on the balls of spinner Vihan Luba and created panic.
Dinesh karthik goes boom #Betwaysa20 #JSKVPR #Welometoincredible , @Dineshkarthik pic.twitter.com/ordbdo4pp2
- Betway SA20 (@sa20_league) January 30, 2025
During this, Karthik also completed his first half -century in the SA20. He was seen taking the team to a big score but Imran Tahir took his wicket in the 18th over. Karthik scored the highest 56 runs in 39 balls with the help of 4 fours and 3 sixes. As soon as he was out, the remaining batsmen could add only 12 runs, but still this score was enough to keep the team in the match. Apart from Karthik, only Rubin Harman could make some contribution and scored 28 runs. Donovan Ferreira and Lutho Sipamala took 3-3 wickets from JoGon.