RCB Appoints Dinesh Karthik As Batting Coach And Mentor
|Dinesh Karthik retired from all forms of representative cricket at the end of the IPL 2024 season
Veteran wicketkeeper-batter Dinesh Karthik has been named as the new batting coach and mentor of the Royal Challengers Bengaluru. The franchise made this announcement in a social media post on Monday. Notably, Dinesh Karthik retired from all forms of representative cricket at the end of the IPL 2024 season.
The 39-year-old represented several teams in the IPL, including the Mumbai Indians (MI), Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR), and RCB. He was picked by RCB at the IPL 2022 mega auction and stayed with the team for three seasons. It was Karthik's second stint with the team, as he played in 2015 after being picked up at the auction by RCB for โน10.5 crore. It is worth mentioning that he led the Knight Riders to the play-offs in his debut season as captain in 2018.
Welcome our keeper in every sense, ๐๐ถ๐ป๐ฒ๐๐ต ๐๐ฎ๐ฟ๐๐ต๐ถ๐ธ, back into RCB in an all new avatar. DK will be the ๐๐ฎ๐๐๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐๐ผ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ต ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ ๐ ๐ฒ๐ป๐๐ผ๐ฟ of RCB Menโs team! ๐คฉ๐ซก
โ Royal Challengers Bengaluru (@RCBTweets) July 1, 2024
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"Welcome our keeper in every sense, ๐๐ถ๐ป๐ฒ๐๐ต ๐๐ฎ๐ฟ๐๐ต๐ถ๐ธ, back into RCB in an all new avatar. DK will be the Batting Coach and Mentor of RCB Menโs team!" wrote the franchise in a post on X. Earlier on June 1, Dinesh Karthik announced retirement from all formats of cricket. Dinesh Karthik also made a significant performance in the previous IPL season by scoring 326 runs from 15 matches with a strike-rate of 187.35. Overall, the right-handed batter had played 257 matches in IPL and scored 4842 runs at an average of 26.32.