Best XI of WC 2019 that might not feature in T20 World Cup 2020
These players have either not played T20Is for a long time or they've retired.
6. Dinesh Karthik
Well! Such is life. 12 months ago, Dinesh Karthik was the talk of the town in Indian cricket. He had just pulled up a Javed Miandadesque last-ball heist during his stonewalling, swashbuckling, ruthless, whatever adjective you might want to attach, 8-ball-27 in the finals of the Nidahas Trophy at the expense of Soumya Sarkar and Bangladesh.
The innings had made Karthik an instant hero. Some said it was the renaissance of the man, who has forever stayed in the shadow of MS Dhoni. Editorials were being written as to how DK forged his way back into the national reckoning. And, such was the impact of that knock that it paved way for his return to the ODI and Test set-up.
12 months later, Dinesh Karthik has played a Test series in England, has batted at No.5 in the World Cup semifinal, and here I am writing about why he may not make it to next years T20 World Cup, a format that helped him forge his way back into the other forms of the game.
Karthik was one of the casualties of India’s unsuccessful 2019 World Cup campaign and the wicket-keeper was dropped from both ODI and T20I sides for the West Indies tour and now in the home series against South Africa, indicating that it might be the end of the road for the KKR skipper, as far as international cricket is concerned. In all, Karthik played 32 T20Is for Team India in which he scored 399 runs at a strike-rate of 143.53.
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