Yuvraj Singh’s verdict on Dinesh Karthik vs Rishabh Pant vs Sanju Samson T20 World Cup race: ‘The thing with DK is…’.

Yuvraj Singh has been most impressed with Dinesh Karthik’s performance in IPL 2024 amid talks about Rishabh Pant and Sanju Samson for T20 World Cup. One of the major selection headaches for the T20 World Cup will pertain to picking the two wicketkeeping positions in the 15-member squad. As many as six players – Rishabh Pant, Sanju Samson, KL Rahul, Ishan Kishan, Jitesh Sharma and Dhruv Jurel – entered the fray at the start of the IPL 2024 season to grab those two spots in the Indian team. At more than the half-way mark in the ongoing tournament, the battle found a seventh competitor in Dinesh Karthik, who has been in ravishing form down the order for Royal Challengers Bengaluru. Despite Karthik sparking a fresh conversation on the possible World Cup squad, Pant has been backed by most veteran cricketers and experts, especially after his unbeaten 88 off 43 against Gujarat Titans earlier this week. Moreover, he has been the leading run-getter among all seven competitors with 342 runs in nine matches, laced with three half-centuries, at a strike rate of 161.32. Pant is followed by Samson, who amassed 314 runs in eight games, comprising three fifties, at a strike rate of 152.42. However, former India cricketer Yuvraj Singh has been most impressed with Karthik’s performance in IPL 2024. In just four innings he has clobbered 172 runs at a strike rate of 209.75 for RCB. And while he backed his place in the World Cup squad, he set a condition for the selectors saying that the 38-year-old should only be picked if he is guaranteed a spot in the playing XI.