SA20: Despite Dinesh Karthik's 'hat-trick', the team lost, even the half-century did not help, CSK's franchise suffered a lot.
Dinesh Karthik is currently participating in SA20 after retiring from international cricket, domestic cricket, and IPL. He is showing his batting prowess in South Africa while playing for Paarl Royals. He played a brilliant innings in the match against Joburg Super Kings on Thursday, January 30. Karthik hit a hat-trick of sixes. He also scored 53 runs in 39 balls. Despite this, his team lost. His brilliant half-century was of no use to the team. Joburg Super Kings, the franchise of Chennai Super Kings, gave a tough fight to his team Paarl Royals in the match.
Du Plessis proved to be too much for Karthik.
Joburg Super Kings won the toss and invited Paarl Royals to bat. But Royals did not have a good start. They lost 5 wickets at a score of 68 runs in 9.5 overs. After this, Dinesh Karthik, who came to bat at number 6, pulled his team out of trouble. He rained fours and sixes in his innings. In the 13th over, Karthik hit 3 consecutive sixes on the balls of spinner Vihan Luba. In this way, with the help of 4 fours and 3 sixes, Karthik scored the highest 53 runs and somehow took the score to 150 runs.
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Du Plessis proved to be too much for Karthik
Joburg Super Kings won the toss and invited Paarl Royals to bat. But Royals did not have a good start. They lost 5 wickets at a score of 68 runs in 9.5 overs. After this, Dinesh Karthik, who came to bat at number 6, pulled his team out of trouble. He rained fours and sixes in his innings. In the 13th over, Karthik hit 3 consecutive sixes on the balls of spinner Vihan Luba. In this way, with the help of 4 fours and 3 sixes, Karthik scored the highest 53 runs and somehow took the score to 150 runs.
However, his innings paled in front of Joburg Super Kings captain Faf du Plessis. While chasing 151 runs, du Plessis scored 87 runs in 55 balls with the help of 4 fours and 7 sixes. His stormy innings made the match one-sided and Super Kings achieved the target with 13 balls to spare at the loss of just 3 wickets. In this way, Dinesh Karthik's team Paarl Royals had to face defeat by 7 wickets in the match.
Although Dinesh Karthik's team lost against Joburg Super Kings, he has nothing to worry about. Because his team has already qualified for the playoffs by winning 7 out of 9 matches. Despite this defeat, Paarl Royals remains at number 1 in the points table with 28 points. On the other hand, Super Kings are still in the playoff race after this victory. They are at number three in the points table with 4 wins and 19 points in 9 matches.