India star Dinesh Karthik was upset after being demoted in batting order against Bangladesh, reveals Rohit Sharma

Sport360 staff 17:33 19/03/2018
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  • Wicket-keeper batsman Dinesh Karthik played a blinder to seal the Nidahas Trophy for India but he wasn’t happy after being pushed down the order to No7.

    India were struggling at 133-5 with 34 needed from 12 balls when Karthik came in to bat. He played the innings of his life, scoring 29 off just 8 balls and sealing the title with a last-ball six.

    During the post-match press conference, stand-in skipper Rohit Sharma said: “When I got out, I went and sat in the dugout and Dinesh was quite upset that he didn’t bat at No6.

    “But I told him, ‘I want you to bat and finish off the game for us, because whatever skill you have, it will be required in the last three or four overs’. That is the only reason he was not batting at No6 in the 13th over when I got out. He was upset with that, but he’ll be quite happy now how he finished off the game.”

    Sharma heaped praise on Karthik saying: “I have to go back to the kinds of shots that he has in his books – it suits him to finish off games at the death where you have to use that one fielder that is inside the circle – either fine leg, or mid-off or short third man.

    Karthik turned the game around by taking 22 runs off the penultimate over. “He can always play those ramp shots which he played in the end to Rubel Hossain. He knows that. I thought Mustafizur (Rahman) would bowl probably the 18th and the 20th overs, and we wanted an experienced guy to handle him,” Rohit explained.

    “We knew he would come out with his offcutters and Dinesh probably would have been a better choice at that point. He has done it for his state team and also for Mumbai Indians.”

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