Dinesh Karthik: The first match of IPL 2024 was not special for Royal Challengers Bangalore wicketkeeper-batsman Dinesh Karthik. His team had to face defeat against the current champion Chennai Super Kings. However, in this match he played a brilliant inning of 38 runs in 26 balls with the help of three fours and two sixes. Veteran RCB player Dinesh Karthik will retire from this league cricket after IPL 2024. After the match against RCB, he himself surprised everyone by revealing this.
I hope to come back to Chepauk to play the playoffs, but..
In the press conference after the match, Dinesh Karthik was asked whether this was his last IPL match at Chepauk Stadium? On this Dinesh Karthik said, “Actually I also want that this match should not be the last, because there can be playoffs and some knockouts in it. I hope I can make a comeback or this could be the last match. But, yes…” I think this is the last one.”
RCB batting came
The first match of IPL 2024 was played between CSK and RCB at the MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai. In this match, RCB captain Faf du Plessis won the toss and decided to bat first. RCB scored 173 runs for 6 wickets in 20 overs on the basis of excellent innings of Anuj Rawat and Dinesh Karthik. But, CSK achieved the target at the loss of 4 wickets in 18.4 overs.