'People Will Remember This RCB Team For Decades': Dinesh Karthik

Moments after Royal Challengers Bengaluru created history at Chinnaswamy Stadium, storming into the IPL playoffs with six wins in six successive games, wicketkeeper-batter Dinesh Karthik told his team-mates that people will remember this RCB team for a long time to come. Joyous over six in a trot win, Dinesh Karthik told the RCB dressing room, as quoted by a press release from RCB, "Not only people, but even other teams in the future, will be inspired by the incredible turnaround his team has achieved this season."

RCB made it to the playoffs after having a poor win-loss record of a win and seven losses in the first eight games, but winning the next six games.

"We should be really proud of this journey we are having. People will always remember certain journeys. The way we have come back after eight games, we needed to win six, people will remember this team," he said.

"Every year in this tournament, when you hit the seven-game mark, there will be one or two teams which would have probably won one or two and they will look to us and say, 'RCB did it. That was special. We are going to try and repeat what RCB did.' And that is what we all play cricket for--a sport for, which people follow us and believe that they can do something special. It is hard. It is not going to be easy, I can tell any team that. What we have achieved today is very, very special. We should be really proud of ourselves, winning six out of six," Karthik added.

Heading onto the Eliminator in Ahmedabad on Wednesday, Karthik feels RCB have given themselves the opportunity to achieve something so extraordinary that their feats will remain on people's minds for years.

"When we get on that flight to Ahmedabad, we have a job to do. We have it within our