Dinesh Karthik likely to retire from IPL after 2024 season

Throughout his IPL career, Dinesh Karthik has played for Delhi Daredevils (now Capitals, Kings XI Punjab (Now Punjab Kings), Mumbai Indians, Kolkata Knight Riders and Royal Challengers Bangalore.

Dinesh Karthik has played 242 IPL matches and scored 4516 runs at an average of 25.81 and a strike rate of 132.71 till date. Image: PTI

FirstCricket Staff|Mar 07, 2024, 13:43:09 IST

Veteran India batter Dinesh Karthik is set to announce retirement from the Indian Premier League (IPL) following the upcoming season with the Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB). Karthik, will, however, make a decision on his retirement from international cricket after IPL 2024.

“This 2024 edition will be his (Dinesh Karthik’s) last IPL. He will decide his international retirement after the IPL,” a BCCI source was quoted as saying by news agency PTI on conditions of anonymity.

Karthik, who began his IPL career with Delhi Daredevils (now Capitals) in 2008, has gone onto play in each of the 16 editions of the IPL so far. He made a move to Kings XI Punjab (now Punjab Kings) in 2011, before spending the next two seasons with Mumbai Indians. He then returned to the Delhi franchise in 2014 for a mammoth amount of Rs 12.5 crore. RCB first signed Dinesh Karthik for Rs 10.5 crore in 2015, but the wicketkeeper-batter switched sides to Gujarat Lions in 2016 and 2017. Karthik then spent four seasons with Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR), whom he led to the IPL playoffs in 2018. Karthik was released by KKR ahead of IPL 2022, and RCB acquired him back for a second time for Rs 5.5 crore.

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