IPL 2018: Dinesh Karthik hurls abuses at Prasidh Krishna

Dinesh Karthik generally employs a calm and collected approach on the cricket pitch. The attribute has helped him win a number of matches for his team. He displayed the same when he took India over the line in a thrilling final against Bangladesh in the Nidahas Trophy back in March. The Tamil Nadu-born cricketer recently finished his stint with the Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR).

He was Kolkata’s top run scorer in the series with 498 runs from 16 matches at an average of 49.80. The wicket-keeper batsman came in the lower middle-order and was a dependable figure in their lineup. Albeit Karthik couldn’t get the massive scores, he chipped in with useful knocks and bailed his team out of precarious positions on quite a few occasions.

KKR played versus the Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) at the Eden Gardens in the Qualifier 2 of the Indian Premier League (IPL). However, they were thrashed by Kane Williamson’s men and were subsequently, shown the door of elimination. Karthik won the toss and elected to bat first, but Shikhar Dhawan and Wriddhiman Saha piled a fifty run stand, which pushed the Knights on the back-foot.

Karthik couldn’t keep his calm

In the eighth over, Kuldeep Yadav nipped out Dhawan and Williamson to pull back some momentum for the Men in Gold and Purple. Karthik was keen on maintaining the pressure and not give any freebies away to the batsman. In the last ball of the ninth over, he lost his cool and shouted at Prasidh Krishna. Shakib Al Hasan pushed the ball on the off-side and set for a single.

Thereafter, Prasidh collected the ball and tried to hit down the stumps at the non-striker’s end. Karthik, from behind the stumps, asked the pacer to keep his calm, but Krishna’s exuberance of youth got the better of him and he resorted to an erratic throw. By the time the throw came in, Shakib had already made his ground and there wasn’t any chance of a run-out.

The throw eluded the fielders and the fast-bowler ended up conceding an overthrow. Though only one run was added to the score, Karthik was disgusted by the proceedings. He chucked abuses at Prasidh and said

“Hey, you f***ing fool”

Here is the video of the same  (use earphones)

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