‘I kept on standing up to walk out and Rohit told me, not now’, Dinesh Karthik on Nidahas Trophy

Dinesh Karthik has been one of the inspirational cricketers in modern era, yet more that that run, the name has remained synonymous with 2017 tri-series tournament named the Nidahas Trophy.

Talking on the RCB Podcast Season 2, Karthik said –

“I have talked about this for more times than I have wanted to. It has now become the most-watched video in the history of sports on YouTube. The second most watched sports video ever on YouTube is that 19th over. It is amazing how it works.”

He added -“The backstory of the game was that we played the Nidahas Trophy in Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka had won their first two matches in the league phase. It was a tri-nation tournament where each team had to play each other twice.”

He said – “In the first two games they won and had one foot in the final. It so ended up happening that they ended up losing their last two matches and rather badly to Bangladesh. Then they ended up losing out on a chance to the final.”

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The veteran India batter Dinesh karthik said – “The first half was pretty much decent as the Indian bowlers did a great job. The second half came and they were way ahead of us. They were dominating us and we were struggling. So it came to a stage where there were 2 overs remaining and we needed 34 runs.”

karthik continued –

“I was padded up to go, I padded up in the second or the third over, waiting to walk out. I kept on standing up to walk out and Rohit told me, not now. There was a wicket in the 15th over. I was sure that it was my turn to walk out in the center.”

Karthik added – “Rohit once again made me sit and in the 18th over, it was Manish Pandey who got out. Eventually, I went to the center. Two overs and 34 runs mean that you will obviously have to try and go at as many balls as you can. I started hitting and the fans brought out the Naagin Dance and we ended up winning the match.”