Dinesh Karthik set to end IPL career after 2024 season

India wicketkeeper-batter Dinesh Karthik is set to play his final IPL season this year when he appears for Royal Challengers Bangalore over the next two months. Cricket has learned that Karthik, who turns 39 in June, will also make a final decision soon on his international future. Karthik, who began his IPL profession at Delhi Thrill seekers (presently Delhi Capitals) is essential for a select gathering of seven players to have highlighted in each time of the IPL since the BCCI sent off the competition in 2008, alongside MS Dhoni, Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma, Shikhar Dhawan, Wriddhiman Saha and Manish Pandey. Maybe more astonishingly, Karthik has missed only two matches in 16 seasons. The first one was in quite a while lady season, against Kolkata Knight Riders and second was in 2023 when Karthik passed on the association match against Sunrisers Hyderabad. Karthik persevered through a poor 2023 IPL with the bat, scoring only 140 runs in general with a normal of a little more than 11. It was a complete difference to the heavenly season he delighted in 2022, the year Imperial Challengers purchased Karthik at the sale for INR 5.5 crore (US$ 662,000 approx.). For the most part assuming the part of the finisher, for which he prepared perseveringly on his power-hitting pre-season, Karthik scored 330 runs in 16 matches at a normal of 55 and a touchy strike-pace of 183.33. Karthik was one of the key reasons Imperial Challengers arrived at the end of the season games that season, prior to bowing out in the subsequent qualifier. The singing IPL structure procured Karthik a compartment in the 2022 T20 World Cup in Australia. Notwithstanding, he oversaw only 14 runs in three innings as India lost to possible bosses Britain in the semi-finals. The flow spell with Illustrious Challengers is Karthik's second, having played a solitary season with them before in 2015. In general, Karthik has addressed six IPL groups: beginning with Adrenaline junkies (2008-14), Rulers XI Punjab (presently Punjab Lords - 2011), Mumbai Indians (2012-13), Gujarat Lions (2016-17), Knight Riders (2018-21) and Regal Challengers (2015, 2022-present). Generally speaking in 240 matches, Karthik has scored 4516 runs at a normal of almost 26, hitting at north of 132 with 20 half hundreds of years. As a guardian, Karthik is second on list behind Dhoni in generally speaking excusals (133) as well as stumpings (36). A laid out commander at Tamil Nadu, Karthik has likewise driven in the IPL - on six events as a substitute captain at Thrill seekers, and 37 matches between 2018-20 at Knight Riders before he ventured down. By and large, his captaincy record peruses: 21 successes, 21 misfortunes and one tied match. Indeed, even as he prepares to express goodbye to cricket as a player, Karthik has previously subsided into what is considered to be a subsequent vocation. In 2021, while he kept playing, Karthik at the same time considered going all in communicating, filling in as a savant for the debut World Test Title last among India and New Zealand and afterward at the Hundred. Karthik is presently deeply grounded as a telecaster, right now doing critique in the India-Britain Test series. Imperial Challengers will play the competition opener against reigning champs Chennai Super Lords on Walk 23 at his home ground in Chepauk.