SA vs Ind: Karthik earns call after Saha's injury and poor show of Parthiv

Sanjay Bhatnagar
Published on: 16 Jan 2018 7:43 AM GMT
SA vs Ind: Karthik earns call after Sahas injury and poor show of Parthiv
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IND-SA series: Karthik earns call after Saha's injury and poor show of Parthiv

Centurion: The injury to Wriddhiman Saha and rather shoddy work of Parthiv Patel behind the stumps in ongoing India-South Africa Cricket Test match, the selectors were compelled to include Dinesh Karthik in the squad for third Test match.

Karthik, who made his debut in 2004 and played his last test match in 2010 against Bangladesh at Chittagong, has made replacement of Saha. Patel who was wicketkeeper in the ongoing 2nd Ind-SA test match, dropped a few catches and was far from being at his best.

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Earlier in the One Day series against Sri Lanka at home, Dinesh Karthik played as a specialist batsman with Dhoni as the WK. If included in the eleven for the 3rd Test to be played at Johannesburg from january 24, he will play as the Wicket Keeper, though after a long time.

The player from tamil Nadu, he has been in cracking batting form in the domestic cricket for last two seasons and bulldozing his way back to Team India on the basis of his form.

Sanjay Bhatnagar

Sanjay Bhatnagar

Writer is a bi-lingual journalist with experience of about three decades in print media before switching over to digital media. He is a political commentator and covered many political events in India and abroad.

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