Ravichandran Ashwin comes up with the hilarious Brian Lara reference to introduce Dinesh Karthik. Image Credit: Screenshot
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- Dinesh Karthik remained unbeaten on 41 runs from 19 balls in the first T20I.
- For his achievements at the death, he won the Man of the Match award.
- Ashwin came up with a unique statistic to introduce DK later in a short interview.
This year, Karthik has emerged as one of the best number six batsmen in the shortest format of the game. He did an outstanding job for Royal Challengers Bangalore in the IPL earlier this year due to which he earned a return to the Indian T20I team and with them too, in the limited opportunities he has had so far, he has impressed.
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Ashwin said, “Greetings from Trinidad and Tobago. This is the Brian Lara Cricket Stadium. Brian Lara announced his retirement in 2007. There is only one player left when Brian Lara was actually playing cricket, and he is here, playing in Brian Lara Stadium, and how. Great knock, Dinesh. How does it feel to be here?”
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Reacting to Ashwin’s opening note, Karthik thanked him saying, “Very good, nice presentation. Thank you. I really enjoyed it.”
BCCI shared the video of the presentation as well as the interview on its Twitter handle.
2 great friends, 1 good conversation
— ANI (@ANI) July 30, 2022
Ashwin was also part of India’s playing XI in the first T20I and returned with figures of 2 for 22 in four overs. The second-highest batsman for India in Test matches had earlier had an opportunity to showcase his talent with the bat and he remained unbeaten on 13 balls off 10 balls.
