Dinesh Karthik names the most important player in the Indian team and it’s neither Virat Kohli nor Rohit Sharma

Former India cricketer Dinesh Karthik will play for Bangalore in the Indian T20 League 2023. He was retained by the Red Army as he had a great season with the bat last year. This helped him make a comeback in the Indian team and played at the highest level till the 20-20 World Cup 2022. Meanwhile, the two-time World Cup winner had named the most important player in the Indian team.

He said that all-rounder Hardik Pandya is the most important player in the team. The former said “He is unarguably the most important player in the lineup. A: because he brings two skills to the floor and the fact that he brings two tough skills to the floor. Medium pacer and batting all-rounder is something that is very, very hard to get. Yes, there are 2-3 players who are probably spinning all-rounders, but fast bowling all-rounders is very hard to get”, Karthik said on Cricbuzz.

Hardik Pandya is a proper all-rounder: Dinesh Karthik

The wicketkeeper batter added that Pandya bats really well in the middle order and has a knack for picking wickets.

“He bats really well through the middle and obviously when it comes to bowling, he seems to find a way to chip in and get wickets. What makes him really hard to play is his natural link because the way he bowls, you always feel he is going to keep short of length. But the moment he starts bowling fuller, the batsman’s weight is on the backfoot, looking for the short ball a lot more and hence you always tend to be slightly slower. It was a well-thought out dismissal of Mitchell Marsh, he changed the pace well, he got Travis Head to play a pull shot, dropped in deep square. But again got him playing a cut shot,” Karthik added.