"Lot Of Grief": On Sachin Tendulkar's Birthday, Dinesh Karthik Reveals Denying India Great A Century

As Indian cricket great Sachin Tendulkar celebrated his 51st birthday on Wednesday, April 24, veteran wicketkeeper-batter Dinesh Karthik recalled his one good and bad memory with the legendary batter. In a video uploaded by his IPL franchise Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB), Karthik revealed the first instance of seeing Tendulkar in person, labelling the incident as a good memory. However, the 38-year-old revealed that denying Tendulkar his century in a match was the worst memory he has with the 'Master Blaster'.

Karthik recalled how he hit a boundary to win the game for India, leaving Tendulkar stranded on 96. He revealed that he still gets flak for doing the same to this date.

"Well, I can give you good memory, bad memory. Good memory being the fact that the first time I met him, it was on top of a flyover. We were going in a bus en route to the airport and he joined in his car and just got into the bus midway. That's the first time I ever seen the man in my life. So that is a good memory," Karthik said in a video posted by RCB.

"Bad memory was 97, not out. We needed four runs to win and I hit a six. So, I ended up making sure that he didn't get the hundred, Till today, I get a lot of grief for it and rightly so. Understandable," Karthik furter recalled.

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For the unversed, Karthik is talking about the third T20I against Sri Lanka at Cuttack in 2009. Chasing 239 to win, Tendulkar and Karthik stitiched an unbeaten 74 runs for the fourth wicket and took India home with 7.3