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The cricketing fraternity praised Dinesh Karthik for his masterful innings that brought the Indian team victory in the last ball of the final against Bangladesh in Colombo.
Updated : Mar 19, 2018, 08:11 AM IST
The cricketing fraternity praised Dinesh Karthik for his masterful innings that brought the Indian team victory in the last ball of the final against Bangladesh in Colombo.
Everyone from coach Ravi Shastri to former cricketers hailed Karthik’s performance when India finally won the match by 4 wickets.
No game is over till the fat lady sings. DK, you beauty! @DineshKarthik #INDvBAN #NidahasTrophy2018 #TeamIndia pic.twitter.com/yKHMaIfc7p
— Ravi Shastri (@RaviShastriOfc) March 18, 2018
29 off 8 balls .. 6 off the last to win the game .. Proper finishing @DineshKarthik .. #BANvIND
— Michael Vaughan (@MichaelVaughan) March 18, 2018
What a finish!!! Well played big guy @DineshKarthik. Outstanding effort by the team. #INDvBAN #topstuff
— Jasprit bumrah (@Jaspritbumrah93) March 18, 2018
Well done Team India @BCCI . What an amazing win. @DineshKarthik what a knock under pressure. This is a bunch of youngsters and they've done so well on this tour. #INDvBAN
— Yusuf Pathan (@iamyusufpathan) March 18, 2018
Incredible knock from @DineshKarthik under pressure
— VVS Laxman (@VVSLaxman281) March 18, 2018
DK you beauty @DineshKarthik .. what a nail biting finish!! .. Congrats #TeamIndia #indvsban @BCCI
— Wriddhiman Saha (@Wriddhipops) March 18, 2018
Top inn @DineshKarthik very well done.. special hitting.. #indvsBang @BCCI congratulations #TeamIndia captain @ImRo45
— Harbhajan Turbanator (@harbhajan_singh) March 18, 2018
Amazing victory by #TeamIndia. Superb batting by @DineshKarthik. A great knock by @ImRo45 to set the platform.
— Sachin Tendulkar (@sachin_rt) March 18, 2018
What a finish to a final!!#NidahasTrophy2018 #INDvsBAN pic.twitter.com/ZYDl6jzVWl
What an innings @DineshKarthik paji Top Class, well done Team india @BCCI . Great victory
— rishi dhawan (@rishid100) March 18, 2018
Earlier, DK was the talk of the social media as India clinched the Nidahas Trophy after defeating Bangladesh by 4 wickets.
Karthik, who came in to bat in the 19th over, hit 29 runs off 8 balls to take India to the victory. His innings included a last-ball 6 when India needed five runs to win.
Bangladesh looked like the winner after a wicket-maiden 18th over where India lost the in-form Manish Pandey. However, Karthik collected 22 runs off the next over give bring India back in the match. India needed 5 runs to win off the last ball. Karthik hit it for the maximum for India to win the match.
Put into bat, Bangladesh made 166-8, a total they owe largely to number three batsman Sabbir Rahman who made 77 after their top order collapsed.
Chasing 167 to win, India lost openers Shikhar Dhawan and number three Suresh Raina early but skipper Rohit Sharma batted comfortably to score 56 and keep India's chase on track.
He and KL Rahul (24) found it easy going against the Bangladesh bowlers until Sharma went for a fatal slog-sweep of Nazmul Islam, departing with three sixes and four boundaries to his name.
Mustafizur Rahman then bowled a masterly 18th over, when his first five balls at Vijay Shankar yielded only one run and Manish Pandey (28) perished off the sixth trying to accelerate the contest.
Next man in Karthik exploded immediately, hitting the first ball he faced for a six and plundering 22 runs off that over from Rubel Hossain to turn the match on its head.
Needing 12 runs off the last over from Soumya Sarkar, Shankar fell to the fifth delivery with India still five runs away.
Karthik nonchalantly hit the final ball for a six to trigger wild celebration by a young India team which had rested regular skipper Virat Kohli and stumper Mahendra Singh Dhoni, among others.