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Dinesh Karthik
Personal information
Full name
Krishnakumar Dinesh Karthik
BattingRight-handed
RoleWicket-keeper-Batsman
International information
National side
Test debut (cap 250)3 November 2004 v Australia
Last Test26 March 2009 v New Zealand
ODI debut (cap 156)5 September 2004 v England
Last ODI30 September 2009 v West Indies
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
2002/03–presentTamil Nadu
2008–presentDelhi Daredevils
Career statistics
Competition Tests ODIs FC List A
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Source: CricketArchive, 19 December 2009

Krishnakumar Dinesh Karthik (Tamil: கிருஷ்ணகுமார் தினேஷ் கார்த்திக் pronunciationⓘ (born 1 June 1985 in Madras, Tamil Nadu, India) is a wicketkeeper-batsman in the Indian cricket team. He was a batsman in his junior career, but turned to wicket-keeping in order to improve his future prospects. Making his ODI and Test cricket debut in late 2004, he was the regular wicket-keeper in Tests, making rare appearances in ODIs. He was replaced as Test wicketkeeper by Mahendra Singh Dhoni in late 2005. After donning the mantle of an opener for his domestic cricket team, he was recalled to the national squad as a batsman in late-2006 after injuries and form slumps hit other batsmen, playing occasional matches in both forms of cricket on the tour to South Africa. Following India's elimination from the first round of the 2007 Cricket World Cup, the selectors made multiple changes, and Karthik became an opening batsman in the Test team and regularly played ODIs, batting in the middle order. He made his maiden Test century against Bangladesh and then was India's leading scorer in the Test tour of England, helping his country to win its first series in England in 21 years. However, Karthik suffered a form slump in late 2007 and was dropped from the team, and since then has only made sporadic appearances.

Early years

Karthik began playing cricket at the age of ten, after a two year stint living in Kuwait, where his father Krishna Kumar worked. Karthik was taught by his father, a first-division cricketer from Chennai. Disappointed that his own career was hindered when he was forced by his family to put his education first, Karthik's father did not want his son to suffer the same way, and trained him hard from an early age.[1] Karthik honed his reflexes at this young age by having his father throw hard leather balls at him at high speed. Initially he played as a youth for Tamil Nadu as a batsman who was learning to keep wicket, and was regarded by Robin Singh as having very high levels of fitness.[1]

Karthik made his debut at the first-class level in late 2002 against Baroda, playing as a wicket-keeper and batting at No. 8, where he scored 37.[2] He batted throughout the round-robin phase in five matches, scoring 179 runs at an average of 35.8 with a top score of 88* against Uttar Pradesh.[1][3] He took 11 catches,[4] but due to his repeated wicket-keeping errors, he was dropped for the final matches.[5]

Karthik attended a wicket-keeping camp in the off-season under the guidance of former Indian gloveman and chairman of selectors Kiran More, which he credited for improving his technique. After playing for a period in the Chennai league, he was recalled to the Ranji Trophy team in the following 2003–04 season.[1] This time, he accumulated 438 runs with an average of 43.8, with two centuries, and took twenty catches.[6] After opening the batting for much of the round-robin phase, Karthik returned to the middle-order for the semi-final against Railways, scoring his maiden century of 122. He followed this with 48 in the second innings, to help Tamil Nadu progress to the final.[7] He followed this with an unbeaten 109 in the final against Mumbai, but despite a draw, Mumbai still managed to claim the title.[8] However these performances were insufficient to gain regional representation, and he was overlooked for South Zone's matches in the Duleep Trophy.[9]

Karthik was selected in the India squad for the Under-19 World Cup in Bangladesh, where he scored 70 runs from 39 balls against Sri Lanka. He also scored two half centuries on an India A tour to Zimbabwe.[10]

Early international career

Brown-skinned young man, not clean shaven, wears a sky blue shirt with the words "SAHARA". He is wearing white sports shoes, navy shorts and black stockings, and has his knees bent and is changing direction while catching a ball.
Karthik at fielding practice

Karthik was selected for his first Indian squad in August 2004 for the ODI team, after the selectors decided to cease using Rahul Dravid as a makeshift wicket-keeper and also due to the poor form of alternative wicket-keeper Parthiv Patel.[10] He played in only one match against England at Lord's, where he got out after scoring one run. Despite dropping Vaughan from the bowling of Anil Kumble, he eventually stumped Vaughan down the legside and took another catch.[11][12] He played another match in the 2004 ICC Champions Trophy against Kenya, taking three catches as India persisted with Dravid's wicket-keeping for the majority of the English tour. He was subsequently replaced in the ODI team by Mahendra Singh Dhoni and did not play another ODI until April 2006.[13][14]

Karthik made his Test debut in the 4th Test between Australia and India in Mumbai, when Parthiv Patel was dropped following a poor run of form.[15] He only managed 14 in two innings and two catches, but was praised for his wicket-keeping on a pitch with variable bounce and spin in which 40 wickets fell in two days.[16][17]

Karthik's best batting performance occurred at Eden Gardens, Kolkata in early 2005 against Pakistan. He scored 93 in the second innings, combining with Rahul Dravid in a 166-run partnership to set up a target of 422. India won the match by 196 runs.[18] However, his batting was not generally productive, averaging 18.8 in to Tests and with his next best a 46 against South Africa, again in Kolkata. After failing to perform with the bat twice against Zimbabwe, he was ousted by Mahendra Singh Dhoni from the Test wicket-keeping position in December 2005 following Dhoni's prolific run-scoring in the one day format of the game.[19] He fell further when Patel was favoured as the reserve wicket-keeper on the 2006 tour to Pakistan.

Karthik as a batsman

Brown-skinned young man, not clean shaven, wears a sky blue shirt with the words "SAHARA". He is wearing white sports shoes, navy shorts and black stockings, is wearing light blue cricket pads on his legs, white gloves, is holding a bat and is capless, in batting stance on a cricket pitch.
Karthik batting in the nets.

In April 2006, Karthik's career was revived when he was recalled to the ODI team by selectors to give Dhoni a rest and was reinstated as the reserve wicketkeeper for the tour to the West Indies.[20] He also played regularly for India A during this period, including a man-of-the-match award winning 75 run score against UAE on a tour to the gulf country.[21][22]

This became semi-permanent in late 2006 for the ODI tour of South Africa, after Yuvraj Singh was sidelined with a knee injury, and Karthik was given a spot purely as a batsman following the poor form of Suresh Raina and Mohammad Kaif. Karthik had opened the batting for Tamil Nadu in the previous season in the Ranji Trophy, as well as for South Zone in the Duleep Trophy. Playing in three of the ODIs, Karthik himself struggled, with 42 runs at an average of 14, and a top score of 17.[13] With India's batsmen struggling, Raina and Kaif were dropped altogether from the Test squad, as Karthik was selected as a back-up wicket-keeper and middle order batsmen in the Test team for the first time in a year.[23] He then scored an unbeaten 31 to steer India to a six-wicket win in the 20-20 International against South Africa with one ball to spare.[24] After Dhoni suffered from a finger injury, Karthik replaced him for the Third Test at Newlands against South Africa, playing his first Test in over a year. With regular opener Virender Sehwag suffering from a loss of form, Karthik opened the innings with Wasim Jaffer, allowing Sehwag to bat in the middle order. He used his domestic experience to score 63 in the first innings, combining in a century opening stand, and in the second innings scored an unbeaten 38, as the team suffered a batting collapse.[19] In addition to his batting, his wicket-keeping was well regarded and brought former South African fast bowler Allan Donald to predict further success in the future.[25]

Karthik also featured in the four-match ODI series against West Indies, and after not batting in the first match he top-scored with 63 as a specialist batsman when India recovered from 35/3 to post 189 on a slow wicket at Barabati Stadium, giving Karthik his first man of the match award.[26] He was rewarded with continued selection for the subsequent series against Sri Lanka and the 2007 Cricket World Cup.[13][27]

Karthik did not play a match at the World Cup,[13] and following India's unexpected exit from the first round, a group of players was dropped from the squad, including Sehwag.[28][29] As a result, Karthik was selected as a specialist opener for the tour of Bangladesh, scoring 56 and 22 in the First Test before scoring his maiden Test century in the Second Test in Dhaka, with 129 runs as India took an innings victory.[19] He completed his tour with 58* and six in the ODI series, playing in the middle order.[13]

Prior to their tour of England, India played a series of ODIs in Ireland and Scotland, against the two hosts and South Africa. Karthik played in five matches, scoring 65 runs at 32.50 and keeping wicket in two of the matches.[13] Karthik established himself as a regular opener in the mid-2007 Test series in England, recording a half century in each of the three Tests, scoring 60, 77 and 91.[19] With a total of 263 runs at 43.83, he was the highest scorer in the series for India,[30] as the tourists won their first series in England for 21 years.[31] He started the ODI series with an unbeaten 44 in the first ODI, but thereafter had four consecutive innings where he failed to score more than four runs, and he was not selected for the final two matches.[13]

Karthik was selected for the inaugural World Twenty20 in South Africa in September 2007, and played in India's earlier matches, before being dropped from the semi-final and final in favour of Rohit Sharma.[32] Karthik kept his place in the Indian squad for the home ODI series against Australia, but played only the final match, making a duck.[13]

Karthik had a lean Test series against Pakistan at home in late 2008. In the first two Tests, he managed only 39 in two innings.[19] In the Third Test in Bangalore, Sachin Tendulkar was injured, and his replacement Yuvraj scored 170. Karthik scored 28 and 54 and kept wickets because of Dhoni's absence with injury.[19][33] In the first innings, Karthik was behind the stumps as India set a world record for the most extras conceded in a Test innings. The 35 byes that were leaked were the second highest amount in Test history.[34]

Karthik was retained for the Test tour of Australia but did not play in the first two Tests,[19] because Dravid was elevated into Karthik's opening position so that both Tendulkar and Yuvraj could bat in the middle order. When Dravid and Yuvraj both struggled in their new positions,[35] Dravid was moved back and Yuvraj dropped for the Third Test of the series,[36] but instead, it was Sehwag and not Karthik who was recalled.[19][37] Karthik was selected for the limited overs component of the Australian tour,[38] but did not play in any of the ODIs.[13] This meant that in more than two months on tour, Karthik only played in a non-first-class match against an Australian Capital Territory Invitation XI and a Twenty20 match against Australia.

Karthik played in the 2008 Indian Premier League as the wicket-keeper for the Delhi Daredevils, scoring 145 runs at 24.16 with a strike rate of 135.51.[39] He was recalled to the Test team as a wicket-keeper for the July 2008 tour of Sri Lanka after Dhoni chose to take a break from cricket.[19][40] Karthik played in the first two Tests, but struggled with the bat, scoring 36 runs at 9.00, and dropped frequent catches and he was replaced for the Third Test by Patel.

Recall

Karthik performed strongly in domestic cricket following the loss of his place in the Indian team. He then had a strong domestic season in 2008–09. He scored 213, featuring in a 213-run partnership with Subramaniam Badrinath as Tamil Nadu defeated Uttar Pradesh by an innings. Karthik scored 123 and 113 in consecutive matches against Baroda and Railways. He then continued his strong run against Central Zone in the Duleep Trophy, scoring 153 and 103 in one match. Karthik ended with 1026 runs at 64.12 for the season, including five centuries and two fifties, and was selected for the tour of New Zealand as the reserve wicket-keeper. He played in the Second Test after Dhoni was injured, but he was criticised for dropping catches. He got a chance again in India's four match tour of West Indies where he replaced opener Sehwag, who was out with a shoulder injury.[41] He scored 67, 4 and 47 as a opener which could help him claim a berth for the future.[42][43][44]

Outside cricket

Karthik took part in the dance reality show Ek Khiladi Ek Hasina partering with Nigaar Khan.[45] Karthik married in 2007.

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