Dinesh Karthik aims to be India's finisher in T20 World Cup

Dinesh Karthik, who has been out of Indian squ after recently concluded 2019 ICC World Cup in England & Wales, has been in sublime finishing form in ongoing Vijay Hazare Trophy. Tamil Nu l scored 97 off 62 balls against Bengal and n an even more, destructive innings of 65 t out off 28 balls against Mhya Presh.

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Karthik is looking to find a spot in national T20 side for upcoming 2020 T20 World Cup as a finisher. Karthik's finishing abilities first came into limelight when he played a brilliant kck of 29 runs including a last-ball six against Banglesh in Nidahas Trophy tri-series final in Colombo in 2018. In all, in past two years in T20Is, body has stayed t out more than Karthik in a successful T20I chase. In seven innings he has batted in when India have won chasing, Karthik has been re till end on each occasion, scoring 141 runs at a strike rate of 142.42.

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Dinesh Karthik aims to don finisher's role

Karthik, 34, told a leing sports brocaster ahe of Vijay Hazare kckouts that T20 World Cup is a year away but he feels if he can keep performing and have a good domestic tournament, he is sure he will go out re and play. He feels that Indian team is looking out for a finisher as well to close out matches and who can understand those situations and do best at that point of time.

Dinesh Karthik said that he feels he h done that in short time he h played T20Is for India. But, post World Cup, he could t play because y clubbed his poor run at World Cup with T20 part of it and removed him from team as well. But he feels that he is well-suited to play that role that Dhoni has played for so many years and he can do something like that as he has been doing that for KKR and Tamil Nu. So, if a slot opens up re, that's something Karthik will be really looking forward to. T20 World Cup is definitely something he wants to play.

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Dinesh Karthik fell out of favour in ODI cricket after managing just 14 in two innings in recently concluded World Cup, but he has been in stellar form as Tamil Nu's finisher in Vijay Hazare Trophy, scoring 349 runs in six innings at an aver of 87.25 and strike rate of just over 135. His finishing kcks have been central to Tamil Nu tching up nine wins in as many games in Group C league phase in Jaipur. He has scored four fifties so far in tournament, all coming at s. 5 or 6.

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