Dinesh Karthik To Announce Retirement Post IPL 2024

Dinesh Karthik, an Indian wicketkeeper-batter, will play for Royal Challengers Bangalore for the next two months in what will be his final IPL season. Karthik, who turns 39 in June, is reportedly going to decide quickly on his international career as well.

Along with MS Dhoni, Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma, Shikhar Dhawan, Wriddhiman Saha, and Manish Pandey, Karthik is one of only seven players to have appeared in every IPL season since the BCCI began the competition in 2008. Karthik began his IPL career at Delhi Daredevils, which is now known as the Delhi Capitals. Even more astonishing, Karthik has only missed two games in 16 seasons.

The first was against the Kolkata Knight Riders during his most memorable season, while the second came in 2023 when Karthik skirted the association game against Sunrisers Hyderabad. Karthik had a troubling 2023 Indian Head Association season at bat, gathering only 140 runs at a normal of a little more than 11. It was a long ways from the extraordinary season he had in 2022, the year Imperial Challengers paid INR 5.5 crore (about US$ 662,000) to get Karthik in the bartering.

Karthik, who was essentially utilized as a finisher and had endeavored to foster his power hitting all through the preseason, amassed 330 runs at a normal of 55 and a surprising strike-pace of 183.33 in 16 games. One of the fundamental reasons Imperial Challengers came to the end of the season games that season was Karthik.