2024-03-14 01:39:58
Mumbai: On one hand, the excitement of the Indian Premier League is about to begin, while on the other hand, the title match of India’s biggest domestic tournament Ranji Trophy 2024 is being played. With this match between Mumbai and Vidarbha at the historic Wankhede Stadium, the career of a cricketer will become history. Yes, he is playing his last match and we are talking about Mumbai fast bowler Dhawal Kulkarni. He is playing the last match of his first class cricket career and in the second innings he was also given a guard of honor by his teammates. This is the same Dhawal Kulkarni, who was picked up from the commentary box by Mumbai Indians and taken to the field in the middle of the 2022 IPL season.
Dhawal Kulkarni was doing commentary, Mumbai Indians made offer
Actually, Dhawal Kulkarni was commentating IPL 2022 played in bio bubble due to Covid 19. He remained unsold in the auction. When Mumbai Indians were eliminated from the playoffs, Dhawal Kulkarni was added to the team. He also left the commentary box and entered the field. However, he did not get a single match in the season. Talking about his IPL career, Dhawal played a total of 92 matches, while taking 86 wickets. His best performance was 4 wickets for 14 runs. His first season was quite successful. He took 11 wickets in 2008, while he took 13 wickets in 2015 and 18 wickets in 2016.
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Dhawal Kulkarni helps junior cricketers a lot
Dhawal is known as a player who used to help his junior players a lot. Regarding Dhawal, Shardul Thakur had recently said that he used to travel by local train from Palghar. He did not have shoes and when Dhawal came to know about this, he gave him a few pairs of new shoes. Let us tell you that Shardul Thakur is also a part of Mumbai’s Ranji Trophy team. Apart from this, 35 year old Dhawal has also been praised by Rohit Sharma and Ajinkya Rahane.
Dhawal Kulkarni’s cricket career was like this
Well, Dhawal made his ODI debut for India on September 2, 2014 against England, while his last ODI was against New Zealand on October 26, 2016 in Ranchi. Meanwhile, he took 19 wickets in 12 matches, while he has 3 wickets in 2 T-20 Internationals. However, the international career was not as successful as the first successful career in cricket. Talking about first class cricket, he played 95 matches and took 281 wickets during this period. He has 223 wickets in 130 matches in List-A cricket.