Dinesh Karthik's Wife Deepika Breaks Down, Virat Kohli Pays Tribute In Emotional RCB Video

One of the finest servants of Indian cricket, Dinesh Karthik said goodbye to the Indian Premier League (IPL) as Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) were knocked out from the competition on Wednesday. RCB's defeat against Rajasthan Royals (RR) in the Eliminator was Karthik's final game in the T20 league, with the veteran wicket-keeper batter deciding to move on. RCB players also gave Karthik a guard of honour after the team's elimination from the tournament, before sharing a beautiful video in which Karthik's wife Deepika Pallikal was also interviewed.

The video shared by RCB starts with an interview with Virat Kohli where the franchise's former skipper recalls his first interaction with Karthik in 2009.

"First time I met DK, I remember we were playing in South Africa if I am not wrong in the Champions Trophy 2009. It was the first time I shared the change-room with Dinesh and I found him to be very amusing, I would say hyper-active, confused person, most of the times he was moving all over the place, never stopping. That was my first impression of Dinesh," Kohli said in the video.

"Outstanding talent, brilliant batter to watch and my first impression and present day impression are not far apart. Just that he has become wiser and calmed down a lot," he added.

Virat also lauded Karthik's honest and courage as he shared an interesting anecdote from 2022 when the former didn't have the best of IPL. It was the wicket-keeper batter who sat him down and given an honest perspective about what could be going wrong.

"Off the field, I have had some really nice and interesting conversations with him. He is wise man, has great knowledge about a lot of things, not just cricket. I have thoroughly enjoyed my conversations with him. Even