{"id":304316,"date":"2022-03-31T13:24:12","date_gmt":"2022-03-31T07:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/?p=304316"},"modified":"2022-03-31T13:45:35","modified_gmt":"2022-03-31T08:15:35","slug":"dinesh-karthik-ipl-twitter-reaction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/india-news\/dinesh-karthik-ipl-twitter-reaction\/","title":{"rendered":"IPL 2022, RCB vs KKR: Dinesh Karthik, Harshal Patel seal the deal, tweeple say India needs finisher like DK"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Royal Challengers Bangalore beat Kolkata Knight Riders by 3 wickets in the sixth match of the 15^{th<\/sup> edition of the Indian Premier League on Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n}

The 8^{th<\/sup> wicket partnership between Dinesh Karthik and Harshal Patel led to RCB\u2019s 3-wicket win. They chased down the target of 129 with four balls to spare. The RCB wicketkeeper and former KKR batter Dinesh Karthik has scored the winning runs against his former franchise. <\/p>\n\n\n\n}

As soon as he scored winning runs for RCB against his former franchise KKR, tweeple have started demanding the return of DK in India\u2019s finishing line. Soon after the RCB’s struggling win, DK’s video of scoring winning runs was started doing rounds on Twitter and still rounding. His IPL statistics were also doing rounds on the internet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Showering praise on DK, some users tweeted that DK deserves a place in team India as a finisher while another termed him the best finisher after MS Dhoni.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For RCB, Sherfane Rutherford was the top-scorer of the match scoring 28 runs while Shahbaz Ahmed made 27. For KKR, Tim Southee took three wickets for 20 runs while Umesh Yadav got two.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Earlier, RCB bowled KKR out for 128 and Andre Russell had been the top-scored for KKR with a 25 off 18 balls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For RCB, Wanindu Hasaranga took 4 wickets for 20 runs, while Akash Deep and Harshal Patel got 3 and 2 wickets respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brief Scores:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kolkata Knight Riders:<\/strong> 128 all out in 18.5 overs (Andre Russell 25; Wanindu Hasaranga 4\/20, Akash Deep 3\/45, Harshal Patel 2\/11).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Royal Challengers Bangalore:<\/strong> 132 for 7 in 19.2 overs (Sherfane Rutherford 28, Shahbaz Ahmed 27; Tim Southee 3\/20, Umesh Yadav 2\/16).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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