Karun Nair Focus Comeback Indian Test Team: 33-year-old Karun Nair, who last played Test cricket in March 2017, continues to dream of returning to the Test arena as he enters the last phase of his professional career. Nair’s statement comes after his omission from the ICC Champions Trophy 2025 India squad, which followed a thunderous Vijay Hazare Trophy season, where he was in sublime form.
Karun Nair Focus Comeback Indian Test Team
In the Vijay Hazare Trophy 2024/25 season, Karun Nair scored 779 runs in eight innings at an unbelievable average of 389; he got out only twice in eight knocks in the competition. Nair slammed five centuries and one fifty in the tournament, bagging the Man of the Match award, but his side, Vidarbha, lost in the final to Karnataka.
Many fans and experts called for Nair’s inclusion in India’s Champions Trophy squad, but the right-hander was omitted as India’s ODI squad is already settled, especially the batting order, which resembles a similar look to the one that featured in the World Cup 2023.
“If I’m being honest, before the tournament, I wasn’t thinking about that. At least for me, it felt quite far away. But like I said, you have dreams, you have thoughts, you want to achieve things. But you’re not thinking, “I’m going to make it.” You think, “I want to make it.” But whether it will actually happen is always a question mark in your head,” Karun Nair told Sports Today.
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I still have the dream of playing Test cricket for India: Karun Nair
Unperturbed by the Champions Trophy snub, Nair’s dream is of playing Test cricket again. He has reasons to feel that he was unfairly dropped from the Test side eight years ago.
He made his Test debut in November 2016 against England. In his career’s third Test match, Nair slammed a triple century in Chennai against England, becoming only the second Indian batsman, after Virender Sehwag, to hit a Test triple hundred.
However, after three Test matches against Australia in the 2017 BGT on tough batting pitches where he failed to hit a single fifty, Nair was dropped from the side. In 2018, he was part of the tour of England but was ignored for Hanuma Vihari and then was dropped from the squad altogether.
“I still have the dream of playing Test cricket for India. I’ve said it in many interviews. So quite honestly, that was the only thing on my mind. I wasn’t even thinking that I’d be mentioned or considered for the Champions Trophy squad, so I feel really grateful for that,” Nair added.
In the ongoing Ranji Trophy season, Karun Nair is averaging 41 after five matches, having hit one century and one fifty. He would be hoping to get a comeback call for the tour of England in June.
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