“Shame”: Phil Salt Trolls Dinesh Karthik For Social Media Post, RCB Mentor Then Makes Amends

Phil Salt performed an important position in Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB)’s IPL 2026 victory over Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) on Saturday, even when the scorecard might not reveal it immediately. Although he did not contribute a lot with the bat, Salt took three catches within the outfield, together with two sensational ones to dismiss Ishan Kishan and Heinrich Klaasen. However, RCB’s batting coach and mentor Dinesh Karthik didn’t embody an image of Salt’s catches in his social media celebratory submit after the sport, prompting a hilarious reply from the batter.

“Nothing for the catch mastermind? Shame” posted Salt in response to Karthik’s Instagram submit.

Karthik shared a collage of RCB’s finest moments from the match, together with pictures of three-wicket hero Jacob Duffy, and footage of Virat Kohli, Devdutt Padikkal and Rajat Patidar, who smashed terrific knocks to assist them chase down a goal of 202 in simply 15.4 overs. But there was no image of Salt.

However, just a few hours later, Karthik made one other submit celebrating Salt’s gorgeous one-handed catch that dismissed Kishan.

Salt’s second catch, taken at deep mid-wicket to dismiss Heinrich Klaasen, was a sensational one. The 29-year-old appeared misplaced steadiness and fell to the bottom, however one way or the other didn’t contact the boundary rope regardless of being millimetres beside it.

However, just a few overs later, Salt took an early contender for ‘Catch of the Tournament’. Salt ran all the way in which from deep further cowl to deep level area earlier than stretching out his right-hand and grabbing an unbelievable one-handed catch to dismiss Ishan Kishan.

Those two catches helped RCB regain momentum forward of the dying overs, and arguably prevented SRH from going effectively previous 200. Ultimately, SRH managed 201/9 of their 20 overs, which was chased down with relative ease by the mighty RCB batting lineup.

RCB subsequent tackle Chennai Super Kings (CSK) on Sunday, April 5.