NEW DELHI: Former India wicketkeeper-batter Dinesh Karthik has credited the Indian Premier League (IPL) with revolutionising Indian cricket to the purpose the place the nation can now discipline two to a few nationwide groups of the identical high quality concurrently. Talking on the Padukone Dravid Centre for Sports activities Excellence on Friday, Karthik praised the IPL for reworking the mindset of Indian cricket and strengthening its infrastructure.
“The IPL has introduced out a successful mentality in all our gamers,” Karthik mentioned throughout a dialog with Mo Bobat, Director of Cricket at Royal Challengers Bengaluru, and former England cricketer Isa Guha. “With the inflow of cash and the monetary advantages that quite a lot of the groups obtain, and in flip the stakeholders, quite a lot of it has been put again into infrastructure. So, when infrastructure grows, finally the standard of sport develops as effectively.”
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Reflecting on the depth of expertise that Indian cricket now boasts, Karthik added, “We are able to say that for the reason that IPL has develop into part of Indian cricket’s material, they will now discipline two to a few groups in worldwide cricket on the identical time, and virtually compete with every considered one of them. Proper now, India is in a really privileged place the place they’ve such a superb assortment of cricketers throughout talent units.”

Karthik, who has been a part of the IPL since its inception, additionally shared how the league has impacted the psyche of Indian gamers. Recalling his expertise of sharing the dressing room with legendary Australian pacer Glenn McGrath in the course of the early years of the match, he mentioned, “For me, the entire ideology of how Australia performed at the moment was a large shock. They felt like a pack of wolves out to win each sport.”
The IPL not solely allowed Karthik to rub shoulders with a number of the world’s finest but additionally helped him develop the arrogance to compete on the highest degree. “In my first 12 months, I acquired to spend time with Glenn McGrath in shut quarters and observe with him. I acquired to know him higher and have become snug, which helped the arrogance and mindset of competing with the perfect,” he mentioned.