"I have been used to quite a few new teams having played county cricket," said the left-arm orthodox spinner, who joined the RCB preparatory camp on Thursday. "This is my third team in IPL.
It's a new season, new team, new challenges, a lot of players that I have played with and against... I don't think it's a very different scenario."
Kartik is a valuable addition to RCB's spin department which boasts the likes of Muttiah Muralitharan and Daniel Vettori alongside their local tweakers.
The 36-year-old veteran of 37 ODIs and eight Tests feels each bowler in the T20 format has to be smart about his strategy.
"I try my own things and subtle variations having played the game for so long. I am a classical left-arm spinner and I do my own things in a very different way," he said.
Kartik believes that slow bowlers have become one of the most important facets in T20 cricket which was once believed to be a format suited for the seamers.
"Having come from the old school of playing four-day and 50-over cricket, I was trying to bowl the 50-over way which didn't work. Everybody thought that we, the spinners, were going to be easy meat.
Life teaches you to survive and the spinners have tried different things. I have been bowling the first over in the Powerplays for most of the teams I have played for. That shows how much the spinners have come around.
Scores of 140-145 are sometimes defendable where the spinners have to play a massive role," he said.

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