Dinesh Karthik is an Indian wicket-keeper and batsman. He made his debut for the Indian cricket team in 2004. He was appointed as captain of the Kolkata Knight Riders ahead of IPL 2018. He is married to Indian squash player Dipika Pallikal.
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Dinesh Karthik is an Indian wicket-keeper and batsman. He made his debut for the Indian cricket team in 2004. He was appointed as captain of the Kolkata Knight Riders ahead of IPL 2018 and remained in that position till 16 October 2020. He has made only sporadic international appearances since then, although he continues to score well domestically. He is married to Indian squash player Dipika Pallikal, and they married in traditional Christian and Hindu ceremonies in August 2015. He participated in the dance-reality show Ek Khiladi Ek Hasina with Nigaar Khan in 2008. He began playing cricket at the age of 10, after a two-year period of living in Kuwait. He was educated in India, and at Carmel School and Fahaheel Al-Watanieh Indian Private School in Kuwait and finally from eighth standard on studied at Don Bosco Matriculation Higher Secondary School in Egmore in Chennai. His father, who was a first-division cricketer from Chennai, trained him hard from an early age. He played for Tamil Nadu under-14, under-19 and under-22 teams before making his first-class debut in late 2002. He scored 438 runs, with two centuries, and took 20 catches in the 2003–04 season. In the semi-final against Railways, he scored his maiden first- class century with 122 runs. He followed this with an unbeaten 109 in the final against Mumbai. In 2009–2010, he was the Tamil Nadu captain in six Ranji Trophy matches.
He ended the season with 1026 runs at 64, including five centuries and two fifties for the Zonal Duleep Trophy. In September 2007, DineshKarthik was dropped from the Test team after a drop in form in September 2007. He had a strong domestic first class season in 2008–09, scoring 213 runs with single-figure scores. He also made two half-centuries on an India A tour to Zimbabwe in 2008-09. In 2012, he made his maiden Test century against Bangladesh and was India’s leading scorer in their Test tour of England, helping India win their first series in England in 21 years. In 2013, he played in three youth One Day Internationals against Nepal. He took 11 catches but, due to repeated wickets-keeping errors, he failed to pass 20 again during the season’s final matches. His form tapered off after this match, and he didn’t play again until the end of the 2013-14 season. He continued his strong run against Central Zone in the DuleEP Trophy, scoring 153 runs in six matches. In 2014-15 he was selected for the India Emerging Players to play their youthful counterparts from Sri Lanka and Pakistan in late September. He then played in the India Under-22 team at the start of the season before his selection for India Emerging Player’s tour of Sri Lanka in September 2014.
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