DINESH KARTHIK

Dinesh Karthik’s job as the KKR captain was already thought of being in jeopardy the moment KKR decided to buy Eoin Morgan, probably the best white-ball captain in the world today. Morgan transformed a dull England side into world beaters with white-ball cricket in a matter of 4 years’ time and won a World Cup as well.

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Karthik’s biggest woes was his struggles with the bat as he managed just 169 runs in 14 matches often coming in at no.4 spot in the batting order. Meanwhile, Morgan finished with 418 runs at a strike rate of 138.41, far better than Karthik’s 126.11. It came as no surprise as Karthik gave up the captaincy in the middle of the season to Morgan, to focus on his batting.

He did play a couple of good innings as a finisher, but it came too late to do well to the franchise and it remains to be seen what will be the fate of Karthik in the KKR team going forward.