Karun Nair Out For Cheap Again In 2nd Test Vs ENG: Indian Cricket Team batter Karun Nair, who is making his national team debut in the ongoing series against England, has failed to score big for the fourth time in a row. In his most recent inning, he got out for 26 runs.
Today is Day Three of the second England vs India Test of the five-match Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy. This match is being played at Edgbaston in Birmingham and saw the home side win the toss and decide to bowl first on a good batting surface.
Karun Nair Out For Cheap Again In 2nd Test Vs ENG
In the first inning, after KL Rahul departed early, Karun came in to bat at No. 3 to hold the fort alongside Yashasvi Jaiswal. The two batted well together, but right before the end of the first session, Nair was surprised by a short ball from Brydon Carse, edged the ball, and was caught in the slips for 31 runs. bringing an end to a promising inning.
India did manage to reach a mammoth total of 587 in that inning on the back of a magnificent 269 innings by captain Shubman Gill. Then, before the end of play on Day Three, England were bowled out for 407, giving the Men in Blue a 180-run lead. At the end of the day, India’s score was 64/7 with KL Rahul and Karun Nair on strike.
At the start of Day Four, both batters looked good. The two got off to a cautious start and peppered in a few fine boundaries. However, at the team score of 96, Nair inexplicably edged a fullish ball by Carse and was caught behind by keeper Jamie Smith for a personal score of 26.
These innings of getting a good start but not converting it into anything big are something Karun did in the first match of that series as well. Unlike this game at Edgbaston, the first match at Headingley saw Nair bat at number six, behind debutant Sai Sudharsan at number three, the captain Gill at four, and Rishabh Pant at five.
In the two innings of that first match, the veteran Indian batter scored zero and 20 runs, respectively, getting a decent start in the second inning.
This has not become a massive issue for the Indian batting order for now, as all batters around Nair have scored big runs at least once in this series. However, questions were raised about his inclusion in the squad for the second Test, seeing that Sudharsan, the only other batter who had not performed, was dropped after the first Test match of his career.
With four failures in two matches, it is clear that Karun Nair’s return to the national team after eight long years is not going well. It is very likely that he will not find a place in the squad for the third England vs India Test.
As for India, they have crossed the 100-run mark as Shubman Gill is now on strike along with KL Rahul, who has scored a 50 after his own failure in the first inning of this game.
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