Dinesh Karthik has just been announced as injured Wriddhiman Saha’s replacement for the 3rd Test against South Africa.
Karthik returned to the side after a layoff of 7 years. The Tamil Nadu wicketkeeper-batsman had last played a Test for India in 2010. He basically had to sit out because of MS Dhoni’s presence in the side.
Wriddhiman Saha has been ruled out of the ongoing test series due to his injury. Now Dinesh Karthik will be flying to the Rainbow nation to join team India in South Africa ahead of the third test. Twitter is erupting with all sorts of funny takes on the awkward moments the two are likely to share in the same dressing room.
Well I just hope dk won’t throw the stumps on Vijay while he fields on the silly point. Virat don’t even think of putting murali in slips while dk is keeping the wickets #dineshkarthik #INDvSA #SAvIND
— Prashaaaaaaant (@Rashukamamu) January 16, 2018
Murli Vijay & Dinesh Karthik may play together in next Test match! #INDvSA
?#CB pic.twitter.com/WGl11MR8eh— Asraf49q (@Asraf89747876) January 16, 2018
RT if u want to see Murli Vijay and Dinesh Karthik batting together. ??#IndvSA #SAvIND
— sachin (@sachinji90) January 16, 2018
Nikita Vijay, the wife of Murali Vijay was initially married to Dinesh Karthik. From being two good friends, Dinesh Karthik and Murali Vijay found themselves involved in a love traingle with Nikita at the apex. Nikita and Dinesh Karthik separated ways in the year 2012 and in the very same year Murali Vijay married Dinesh Karthik’s former wife.
Since then things have been really ugly and awkward between the two and they would be sharing the dressing room for the first time.
Team India is already trailing 0-1 in the Test series against South Africa as they lost the first Test at Centurion by 72 runs.