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After 2982 days in the Test team, this player reaction came in front, said – I was waiting for a long time

Karun Nair
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Karun Nair

The Indian team will start the World Test Championship 2025-27 edition from the tour of England where they have to play a five-match Test series against the hosts. Team India will play their first match on 20 June on this tour. At the same time, the Selection Committee of Team India has announced the squad for this tour, in which Shubman Gill has been given the responsibility as the new captain of the Test team, while Karun Nair has returned after 8 years long wait. At the same time, the reaction of Karun Nair has also come to the fore for his return to Team India.

I had been waiting for it for a long time

In the season of IPL 2025, Karun Nair is playing with the Delhi Capitals team, with his team on the evening of 24 May, he had a match with Punjab Kings, which he won by 6 wickets. In this match, Karun Nair’s bat saw an innings of 44 runs in 27 balls. At the same time, Nair in his statement after the match said that I am very thankful to return to the Indian Test team. Good luck that I got this opportunity. I also came to know like you guys. I had been waiting for it for a long time. A lot of congratulations have been received. Let me tell you that Karun Nair played his last Test match 2982 days ago when he got a chance to play in Dharamshala Test against Australia in the year 2017.

Only other Indian players to score a triple century in Test

Karun Nair started his Test cricket career in a very brilliant way in which he is only the second player after Virender Sehwag who has managed to score a triple century. If we look at Nair’s Test career, he has played 6 matches, batting in 7 innings and managed to score 374 runs with an excellent average of 62.33 and his bat also saw a century innings.

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