How to deal with Rishabh Pant? Dinesh Karthik has 'one-foot' advice for IPL wicket-keepers

Kolkata Knight Riders' wicketkeeper-batter Dinesh Karthik, took to his official Twitter handle on Monday to wish Delhi Capitals' skipper Rishabh Pant on his birthday and also came up with vice for wicketkeepers behind stumps when Pant is batting. Karthik sarcastically vised wicketkeepers to stay at least a foot away from stump when Rishabh Pant is in crease. His vice comes after DC vs KKR, match . 41 of IPL 2021 on September 28, when Pant almost hit Karthik with his bat while playing a shot. 

In 17th over of match, while playing spinner Varun Chakravarthy’s first ball of over, Pant went for a drive through offside but bottom-edged ball. In process of avoiding ball to kck stumps, Pant swat ball away with his bat, nearly missing hitting Karthik on his helmet. replay during match me it evident that it was a close shave for Karthik. Pant went on to play an innings of 39 runs off 36 balls as Delhi posted a below-par total of 127 runs with loss of nine wickets. KKR bowlers came up with a brilliant display of bowling as Lockie Ferguson, Sunil Narine and Venkatesh Iyer chipped in with two wickets each. Tim Soue also took a wicket for KKR as Pant and Avesh Khan were dismissed in run-outs.

Sunil Narine journed Player of match for contributing with 2/18 and 21 runs off 10 balls.

In reply to DC’s target, KKR chased down target with 10 balls left to go in second innings of match. Despite having few hiccups in form of Rahul Tripathi getting dismissed for nine runs and skipper Eoin Morgan returning on a duck, Karthik, and Nitish Rana ded 29 to ir total for fifth wicket. After Karthik’s dismissal, Narine scored a quickfire 21 runs and ded 26 runs, accompanied by Rana for sixth wicket. Sunil Narine was awarded Player of match title, courtesy of his bowling effort of 2/18 and 21 important runs he scored off 10 balls. KKR won match, with Rana and Ferguson out in middle. Meanwhile, Pant will le DC again on Monday, during ir clash against Chennai Super Kings(CSK) at Dubai International Stium.

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