Top 5 T20 knocks of Dinesh Karthik

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#4 56*(32) vs Mumbai Indians in Delhi

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Dinesh Karthik was bought by Delhi Daredevils for the inaugural season of IPL for 2.1 crores. DK didn't have a good IPL 2008 until the last league game for DD, in which they needed to beat Mumbai to qualify for the semi-finals.

Batting first Mumbai scored 176 runs in 20 overs with Jayasurya top scoring 66 and Uthappa scoring 46. Needing 177 to win the match and to stay in the IPL, Delhi started positively but lost the wickets of Dhawan, Sehwag, Dilshan and Gambhir by the end of 11th over with the scoreboard reading 89. They still needed 88 runs to in 9 overs.

DK came in at number 5 and joined hands with Manoj Tiwary, who scored 36. The duo added 41 runs in 4 overs. With 47 runs needed off the last 5. Karthik scored his first ever IPL fifty. He added an unbeaten 49 runs with Farveez Maharoof, who scored 20 runs. DK was unbeaten at 56 of 32 balls with 4 fours and 3 sixes and was named Man of the match for his knock.

Sadly he couldn’t help DD side win the semi-finals as they lost by a huge margin against a Rajasthan side, who went on to win the inaugural IPL

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