Karun Nair scored a century in Maharaja T20 Trophy: Maharaja T20 Trophy tournament is being played these days at M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru. In this tournament, Team India's experienced batsman Karun Nair played a stormy innings yesterday. The captain of Mysore Warriors rained sixes and fours against Mangalore Dragons. Nair scored an unbeaten 124 runs in 48 balls at M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru. 9 sixes and 13 fours came off his bat.
On the basis of Nair's stormy batting, Mysore scored a huge score of 226/4. Let us tell you that Nair has scored a triple century in Tests for the Indian team. He is the only Indian to score a triple century after Virender Sehwag. However, Nair has been out of the Indian team for a long time. Despite performing well in Test cricket, he did not get a chance.
Talking about this match, 32-year-old Nair came out to bat at number three for the Warriors. After losing the toss, the Warriors did not have a good start. Opener Ajith Karthik returned to the pavilion after scoring 11 runs. In such a situation, Nair took charge of the innings. He shared a 47-run partnership for the second wicket with SU Karthik (23). Samit Dravid contributed 16 and Sumit Kumar contributed 15 runs.
Nair added 44 runs for the fourth wicket with Sumit. Sumit lost his wicket in the 16th over. After this, Nair shared an unbroken 85-run partnership for the fifth wicket with Manoj Bhandage (31 not out) and brought his team to a strong position. In the end, Karun Nair's team won this rain-interrupted match by 27 runs.
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Karun Nair wants to return to Team India: Nair made a lot of headlines by scoring an unbeaten 303 against England in December 2016. He played his last Test in March 2017 and then never returned to Team India after that. However, Nair has not given up hope of returning to the Indian team. He recently told ESPNcricinfo, "It is still exciting to wake up every morning and dream of returning to Test cricket.
It helps me move forward. I think I am batting as well as before. I am in a good mental state, I know where my game is. I am just making sure that if I get an opportunity, no matter where it is, my focus is on taking full advantage of those opportunities so that I can climb up again."
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