RCB appoints Dinesh Karthik as their batting coach and mentor for IPL 2025

Dinesh Karthik joins RCB in new role as IPL 2025 beckons.

RCB appoints Dinesh Karthik as their batting coach and mentor for IPL 2025

Dinesh Karthik, image courtesy: X

The Royal Challengers Bengaluru has appointed Dinesh Karthik as the batting coach and mentor for the upcoming season of the Indian Premier League. Given his eclipsing persona, Karthik’s inclusion to the side will be a massive boost for all the known and the new players who will be joining the team for the next season of the auction alike.

Dinesh Karthik joined the RCB franchise for the first time in 2015 and also went onto play for another season as his first stint in the tournament came to an end in 2016. In his first IPL season for RCB he could only garner 141 runs while for the following season he managed to smash 335 runs at a strike rate of 125.93.

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He eventually made a return to the side in 2022 when he was picked up in that year’s mega-auction. Upon his very return, he turned the tide of the franchise with his aggressive brand of cricket. At the end of 2022 season, he fired home 330 runs at a strike rate of 183.33.

Despite 2023 being a bummer, he came to form in 2024 and was seen in an even more intimidating avatar as he whacked around at will, smashing 326 runs at a strike rate of 187.36. At the end of the last season of the IPL, he called it a day from the fray as a player.

Coaching at a professional level is incredibly exciting for me and is something I'm truly passionate about as a new chapter in my life. Hopefully, the breadth of my experiences as a player can contribute to the development of the group and bring added value.
Dinesh Karthik said reacting to his inclusion in a new role for RCB (via RCB)

He further emphasized on the technical aspect of the game while underscoring the importance of match intelligence and composure. Apart from honing the superstars into unstoppable run-machines, Dinesh Karthik also said that he wants to preach match awareness.

A glance at Dinesh Karthik’s IPL career

At the end of a glistening IPL career, Dinesh Karthik has played 257 games out of which he has scored 4842 runs at a strike rate of 135.56, a number that got a major boost in his last stint for the Royal Challengers Bengaluru.

Dinesh Karthik
Dinesh Karthik in RCB, image courtesy: X

He played his last T20I fixture in the 2022 T20 World Cup where he was up against Bangladesh. However, his last appearances in the longer formats of the game came back in 2018 and 2019 where he played against England in the whites and against New Zealand in the infamous 2019 World Cup semi-final in ODIs.

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