By Kaif - Jun 20, 2025 04:06 PM
Karun Nair returned to the Indian team after 3006 days: A new chapter has begun for Team India. The Indian team has come out with a changed face in the first Test against England at Headingley ground in Leeds. After the retirement of veterans like Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma and R Ashwin, Shubman Gill has now taken over the command, and under his leadership many new faces have got a chance.
The biggest attraction in this match was the return of Karun Nair. 33-year-old Karun has returned to the Indian playing-11 after 3006 days. He last played a Test for India in March 2017. But his brilliant performance in domestic cricket and county championship once again got him the Test cap.
Karun Nair will bat at number 6. Interestingly, when he was dropped from the Karnataka team in 2022, he wrote an emotional post on social media that cricket, give me another chance and now, after two years, he got a chance again. Karun also batted well in IPL 2025. Not only this, in the last 1 year, he had scored a lot of runs in domestic cricket. Along with ODIs, his bat rained heavily in red ball cricket.
Dear cricket, give me one more chance.??
— Karun Nair (@karun126) December 10, 2022
Karun scored 863 runs in 9 matches in the 2024-25 season of Ranji Trophy. He scored 4 centuries and 2 half-centuries. Apart from this, he was also the top scorer in Vijay Hazare Trophy. Karun scored 779 runs in 9 matches at an average of 389.50. In this, he scored 5 centuries.
Karun's comeback is one of the most tremendous comebacks in cricket. In six Test matches for India, he scored 374 runs at an average of 62.33. This includes a triple century. During this, his score in seven innings has been - 4, 13, 303*, 26, 0, 23 and 5 runs.
In first-class cricket, Karun has scored 8211 runs at an impressive average of 49.16. These include 23 centuries and 36 half-centuries. Despite the triple century, he was sidelined.
He was part of the 2018 England tour team, but he never got a chance to play in that series. He last played for India in February 2017. India then faced Australia in the Test at Dharamsala. That means if Karun gets a chance to play, it will be after eight years that he will play a match for India in the red ball format, but his comeback is after seven years. Apart from this, he has also played two ODIs. In 2016, he played two matches against Zimbabwe in Harare. In this, he scored a total of 46 runs.
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Karun Nair returned to Team India after 3006 days
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