New Delhi. For the past several years, Mahendra Singh Dhoni was playing his role for the Indian team as a wicketkeeper and finisher in the Indian team. But ever since he announced his retirement from cricket, many new and veteran players got a chance in his place, but many young players failed to capitalize on this opportunity. But nowadays Dinesh Karthik is not allowing Dhoni to be missed. Dinesh Karthik has done some work to reduce Dhoni’s deficiency a little bit. The example of which he has given many times. Along with this, he also batted brilliantly in the fourth match of the ongoing 5-match T20 series with South Africa. He played a powerful innings of 55 runs in just 27 balls in this match. For information, let us tell you that Dinesh Karthik has also scored his first half-century in T20 in this match.
Dhoni’s record broken
Dinesh Karthik has returned to Team India after a long gap of 3 years. His half-century with South Africa on Friday, in fact, that half-century has also broken a record of Mahendra Singh Dhoni, one of the greatest cricketers in the world. Dinesh Karthik has scored his first half-century of T20 in front of the South African team at the age of 37 years and 16 days. Earlier, Mahendra Singh Dhoni had scored a half-century in T20 for India at the oldest age. In the year 2018, Dhoni played an innings of 52 not out in 43 balls against South Africa and then his age was 36 years 229 days. Now this record has been broken by Dinesh Karthik.
Let us tell you that Dinesh Karthik performed brilliantly in the fourth match of the ongoing 5-match T20 series with South Africa. In this match, Karthik played a powerful innings of 55 runs. Due to which India’s team managed to score 169 runs in front of the South African team. He was also given the Player of the Match award for this innings of Dinesh Karthik in this match.