Joining the Pondicherry team for the season 2019-20, in the first tournament of the season, K.B.Arun Karthick continued his good form from where he left last year and scored total of 262 runs in seven innings, out of ten matches he played. With 86 being the highest in an innings, remaining unbeaten in three innings, including two fifties in the tournament, his strike rate was an envious one with 122.42 and with an average of 65.5, he simply took the no.1 position of Pondicherry batting line up in the recently concluded Vijay Hazare Trophy.