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'Superman' Dinesh Karthik seen behind the wicket in SA20, took a surprising catch with one hand

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Cricket News Desk. Like IPL, it is also being played in South Africa. Team India's former wicketkeeper batsman Dinesh Karthik is also playing his third season. DK is representing Paarl Royals. The 9th match of the tournament was played between MI Cape Town and Paarl Royals. In this match, Indian player Dinesh Karthik showed amazing fitness and took a brilliant catch behind the wicket at the age of 39. The video of his arrest has also surfaced on social media.

Actually, Dayan Galim was bowling the 5th over of MI Cape Town's innings. Afghanistan's Azmatullah Omarzai was on strike on the first ball of his over. Umarzai looked to flick a short ball from Galeem. But he could not hit the ball at the right time and the mouth of the bat closed quickly. In such a situation, the ball touched the edge of his bat and was caught. Karthik quickly dived towards his right hand and took a brilliant catch with one hand. Azmatullah Umarzai was out after scoring 13 runs in 11 balls.

Pearl Royals won this match by 6 wickets.

Paarl Royals captain David Miller won the toss and invited MI Cape Town to bat first. Cape Town could not make much impact with the bat and could only score 158 runs at the loss of 4 wickets in 20 overs. For his part, Rassie Van der Dussen scored the highest 91 runs. The most successful bowler for Paarl Royals was Mujeeb Ur Rahman who took 2 wickets for 27 runs.

Pearl Royals achieved the target of 159 runs by losing 6 wickets in 19 overs. Luan Dre Pretorius scored the highest 83 runs for Royals. Apart from this, Captain Miller remained unbeaten after scoring 24 runs. Dinesh Karthik also contributed 10 runs with the bat. Trent Boult and Rashid Khan took 1-1 wicket for Cape Town.

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