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Dinesh Karthik

Royal Challengers Bengaluru· latest contract 2024

WKIPL

CricOptics rating

No rating yet: fewer than five recent matches to go on.

How is this rated?

Wicketkeeper

Role

India

Country

spin · Right-arm off-break

Bowling

₹5.50 Cr

Latest price

retention · 2024 · IPL 2027 not announced yet

₹12.50 Cr

Highest price

auction 2014

2008–2024

Seen in our data

257 matches

Price history

What this player was paid, season by season.

Latest: ₹5.50 Cr

Highest: ₹12.50 Cr (auction 2014)

0₹6.5 Cr₹13 Cr200820112014201520162018201920202021202220232024

Auction prices and retention or trade salaries share the line. A retention is a negotiated salary, not a bid.

Season summary

Their own figures in each season, one season at a time.

Season rating /10
7.0
Matches
13
Runs
326
Strike rate
187.4
Average
40.8
Wickets
–

Recent matches

Their last matches in our data, newest first, each rated out of 10.

DateOpponentResultBatBowlRating /10
22 May 2024RRL4 wkts11 (13)–4.8
18 May 2024CSKW27 runs14 (6)–6.6
12 May 2024DCW47 runs0 (2)––
9 May 2024PBKSW60 runs18 (7)–6.9
4 May 2024GTW4 wkts21* (12)–7.7
25 Apr 2024SRHW35 runs11 (6)–6.2
21 Apr 2024KKRL1 runs25 (18)–5.8
15 Apr 2024SRHL25 runs83 (35)–9.2
11 Apr 2024MIL7 wkts53* (23)–9.0
2 Apr 2024LSGL28 runs4 (8)–5.0

Career stats

Career-to-date through the 2024 season, from ball-by-ball match data.

BattingPrimary

Matches
257
Runs
4843
Average
26.32
Strike rate
135.28
Fours
466
Sixes
161

Bowling

Wickets
0
Economy
—
Average
—
Strike rate
—

FieldingPrimary

Catches
145
Stumpings
37

All T20 cricket

Every T20 and T20 international in our match archive, not only the IPL or WPL. Men's domestic T20 is included; Indian domestic women's T20 is not in the data.

Matches
357
Internationals
58
Runs
6424
Average
27.0
Strike rate
136.5
50s / 100s
29 / 0
High score
97
Years
2006–2025

Where this comes from and how current it is. Match records are from Cricsheet, a free ball-by-ball archive. Ours runs to 25 October 2026. It refreshes by itself every Sunday, Wednesday and Friday, so matches from the last few days may not be in yet. The Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy is only partly covered: seasons 2015/16 and 2017/18 to 2024/25, about 58% of its matches, and nothing after December 2024. Indian domestic women’s T20 is not covered at all. A match missing here does not mean the player did not play it.

Auction history

Every auction this player was sold at, from the dataset.

Auction history
2022
Royal Challengers Bangalore
₹5.50 Cr
2018
Kolkata Knight Riders
₹7.40 Cr
2016
Gujarat Lions
₹2.30 Cr
2015
Royal Challengers Bangalore
₹10.50 Cr
2014
Delhi Daredevils
₹12.50 Cr
2011
Kings XI Punjab
₹4.20 CrUS$900,000
2008
Delhi Daredevils
₹2.28 CrUS$525,000

Retentions, trades and releases

How this player arrived at (or left) a team when it was not an auction. A retention is a negotiated salary capped by the retention rules — it is not an auction price, and the two are not comparable.

2024RetainedRoyal Challengers Bengaluru₹5.50 Cr
2023RetainedRoyal Challengers Bangalore₹5.50 Cr
2021RetainedKolkata Knight Riders₹7.40 Cr
2020RetainedKolkata Knight Riders₹7.40 Cr
2019RetainedKolkata Knight Riders₹7.40 Cr
2012TradedMumbai Indiansfrom Kings XI Punjabnot published

Season by season

Career-to-date totals at the end of each season they played.

Career-to-date stats by season
2024257484326.32135.280—
2023242451725.81132.620—
2022229437726.85132.560—
2021213404725.78129.630—
2020196382426.01129.540—
2019182365527.07129.790—
2018168340126.78128.730—
2017152290324.81125.940—
2016138254223.76124.240—
2015122220723.48123.990—
2014106206624.89124.230—
201392174125.23123.910—
201273123124.14123.840—
20115699326.13127.140—
20104271126.33126.740—
20092843330.93133.640—
20081314524.17135.510—

This season's stats

What they actually did in that season alone — not the career-to-date total above. Click a season for the full breakdown.

This season's own stats, by season
202432640.75187.36——
202314012.73134.62——
202233066.00183.33——
202122322.30131.18——
202016914.08126.12——
201925331.62146.24——
201849855.33147.77——
201736140.11139.38——
201633525.77125.94——
201514115.67120.51——
201432523.21125.97——
201351030.00124.09——
201223818.31111.74——
201128225.64128.18——
201027823.17117.30——
200928836.00132.72——
200814524.17135.51——

About Dinesh Karthik

Written from our own data: date of birth and birthplace from Wikidata, figures from ball-by-ball match data, prices from the auction and retention tables.

Dinesh Karthik is a 41-year-old wicketkeeper from India, born in Chennai on 1 June 1985. Their most recent retention on record is with Royal Challengers Bengaluru (2024).

Across 257 IPL matches between 2008 and 2024, Dinesh Karthik scored 4843 runs at an average of 26.3 and a strike rate of 135.3. In their latest season in our data (2024), they made 326 runs at a strike rate of 187.4.

The highest price on record is ₹12.50 Cr (auction, 2014, Delhi Daredevils); the latest is ₹5.50 Cr (retention, 2024). They have been sold at auction 7 times.

IPL 2027 retentions have not been announced yet, so Dinesh Karthik's 2027 contract is not on record.

Auction value

What this player would likely go for in the next auction, from the same market model as the Predictor page.

If Dinesh Karthik were in the IPL 2027 auction

₹5.13 Cr

likely range ₹4.00 Cr to ₹9.50 Cr

Rank
#76 of 168 active players
Current salary
none on record

Not in the active pool (no contract or recent season), so this is priced from their last record: low confidence.

An estimate of the market price, not a promise. How it is built and how accurate it was is on the Predictor page.

Sold for
₹5.50 Cr
IPL 2022
CricOptics rating
—
not enough recent matches