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Dinesh Karthik should step down in the batting order: Gautam Gambhir | Gambhir says that Dinesh Karthik should bat further down the order for KKR

The former captain of Kolkata Knight Riders Gautam Gambhir has come up with yet another opinion on current skipper Dinesh Karthik. Commenting on the batting order of the team, Gambhir said to ESPNcricinfo, “Rahul Tripathi goes up the order, Dinesh Karthik plays at no 6, not before Morgan and not before Russell as well. Probably Sunil Narine goes to bat at 8 or 9. If Morgan bats no 4 and Russell at 5 and Dinesh Karthik to follow”.

Though Karthik hasn’t managed to come up well with his batting, the team’s performance looks convincing. After last match’s dismissal Gambhir pointed out that the team’s best bowler needs to ball after 18th over and so on. “Your best bowlers need to ball the 18th, 19th and 20th over, unfortunately it didn’t happen. Pat Cummins, Sunil Narine — if a spinner has to bowl. Even Mavi, he did a fabulous job in the previous games and so did Andre Russell. You have to got to give your best bowlers. Yes Varun Chakravarty did bowl well in the first few overs but you cannot expect a young spinner to be bowling the 19th over and that too in Sharjah, probably it was a miscalculation”, he said.

Gambhir said that KKR gave out 20-25 runs extra during thise match in Sharjah, “It is never finished till it is finished, that’s what we saw in Sharjah. These are too many runs, probably, 20-25 runs more than what KKR was expecting. It was the brilliance of (Anrich) Nortje, just backing himself which actually changed the fortune of the match”, he added.

Written by Anjali Jha. Follow Anjali on Twitter today.