Rajesh Rai
After former captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni in Indian cricket, the name of Delhi’s Rishabh Pant had been decided as his successor and there was talk of making him the next captain, but cricket is a game of great uncertainty and till the last ball is played. It is difficult to decide what to throw.
Dinesh Karthik has emerged to take on Pant in IPL 2022 who has not only clinched the title of best finisher with his explosive batting but has also staked his claim for the upcoming T20 World Cup. This moment in Karthik’s career has not come like this, but it is the result of his tireless hard work that he has come to a point where it will be very difficult for the selectors to ignore him.
In the year 2004, a young wicketkeeper named Dinesh Karthik made his debut for the Indian cricket team. His cricketing life was on the rise and in 2007 he married childhood friend Nikita Vanzara. Dinesh and Nikita were very happy in their married life. Dinesh was also captaining the Tamil Nadu team in the Ranji Trophy. His special friend was the opener of the Tamil Nadu team who later became a part of the Indian team i.e. Murali Vijay.
One day Nikita met Dinesh Karthik’s fellow player Murali Vijay. Nikita and Karthik got divorced in the year 2012. The very next day after the divorce, Nikita married Murali Vijay. Dinesh Karthik went into depression. He was dropped from the Indian team. He was failing in Ranji Trophy as well.
The captaincy of the Tamil Nadu team was taken away from him. And Murali Vijay was made the new captain. The period of failure did not stop here, he was not even fed in the team in IPL. He even stopped going to the gym. In the end, Dinesh became so desperate that he even started talking about committing suicide.
Then one day his trainer in the gym reached his house. He found Dinesh Karthik in a bad state. He caught Karthik and brought him straight to the gym. Karthik refused but his trainer did not listen to him. Indian squash women’s champion Dipika Pallikal also used to visit the same gym. When he saw Dinesh Karthik’s condition, he along with the trainer started counseling Dinesh Karthik.
The hard work of the trainer and Deepika started paying off. Now Dinesh Karthik was on the path of improvement. On the other hand Dinesh Karthik started practicing vigorously in the nets with the support of Dipika Pallikal. Its effect started showing and Dinesh Karthik started scoring big scores in domestic cricket. Soon he was also selected in the IPL and was also made the captain of Kolkata Knight Riders. He had come very close to Dipika Pallikal. He married Deepika. According to the age of cricket, Dinesh was now old.
Now Rishabh Pant had arrived in the Indian cricket team. Karthik understood that now his career is about to end. He decided to retire from cricket. Then Dinesh got information that Mahendra Singh Dhoni wanted to see him back in the team as a wicketkeeper from Chennai Super Kings.