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Virat Kohli and Dinesh Karthik (Image Source: Twitter)
Team India are currently busy playing the ODI series in Bangladesh. Followed by that, they will play a two-match Test series also. However, Bangladesh have already sealed the series by 2-0. So, Men in Blue will look to avoid a clean sweep when they will face the home side on 10 December 2022.
However, Shreyas Iyer has enjoyed a good series with the bat. In the first match, he scored 24 runs off 39 balls while his team scored only 186 runs. Then, in the next match, he scored 82 runs off 102 balls while chasing 272 runs. Now, regarding such a form, Indian cricketer Dinesh Karthik came up with a huge comparison for this star batter.
“You want to make a name like what Virat Kohli has done over the years” - Dinesh Karthik on Shreyas Iyer
While speaking to Cricbuzz, Dinesh Karthik hailed the consistency of Shreyas Iyer in the 50-over format. He said: “I think the way he has played for a period of time has been phenomenal. He has scored 700-plus runs just this year and you can see the confidence.”
“One Day International cricket is something right up his alley, he likes the fact that he can take a few balls and then start launching. Terrific player of spin and the fact that these days every time he walks in, they test him with short balls and he is coming good, almost every game,” Karthik added. He also said that Iyer can be the next Virat Kohli for team India if he manages to pull games off like the former skipper.
“Yes, he had the odd failure which could be due to a short ball but every time he crosses that you can see he is a man on a mission and he wants to be there for the team at the end. He looked good in this knock, he dominated right through the time he was batting. Yes, wickets fell around him but he didn't give up and I really like that about him. He almost took India to a place where - I think it was safe but if you want to make your name as a player, you want to make a name like what Virat Kohli has done over the years, these are the games that you wanna be 120-130 not out, that is a big difference,” Dinesh Karthik concluded.