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At the beginning of the IPL, it was thought that cricket players would play for their respective states. Virender Sehwag was in Sourav Ganguly Knight Riders, Sachin Tendulkar in the Mumbai Indians or Delhi Daredevils. But that did not happen to all cricket players. Despite being a Tamil Nadu cricket player, Dinesh Karthik has never played on the IPL Chennai Super Kings team! Not CSK in the auction, Mahendra Singh Dhoni was taken over by the CSK franchise. And this is Kartik’s biggest problem!
“I was in Australia when the auction was held in 2008,” Dinesh Karthik said on a cricket website. So I was the biggest star to play for the country of Tamil Nadu. I was sure Chennai Super Kings would take me. I thought it would be the captain! This thought was running through my head. But at the auction, they first took Dhoni for $ 15 lakh. And Dhoni was sitting right next to me then. But Dhoni never said that CSK can take him to the team!
Karthik, who is at the end of his career, has not yet played for Chennai. He has played for Delhi Daredevils, Kings XI Punjab, Mumbai Indians, Royal Challengers Bangalore, Gujarat Lions and Kolkata Knight Riders. Now he is the captain of Kolkata Knight Riders. But not playing in Chennai still hurts. Karthik said: ‘This is the greatest knife strike to my heart. I thought Chennai could take me to the team later. But 13 years have passed. I am still waiting for the call from Chennai.
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