Follow UsKarun Nair asked cricket to give him one more chance in December 2022. The game did, and he took it in both hands, scoring 2402 runs in 48 innings of 30 First-Class matches ever since, averaging a magical 52 with eight centuries and nine fifties to his name.
Nair then took his form to the next level and smashed a century in his first outing for India A in a gap of nearly six years, when he hit a century against the England Lions on Day 1 of the first four-day game at the Canterbury Ground on May 30. Nair last played for India A in 2019 against the South Africa A team.
The hundred against England Lions is on the back of an outstanding domestic season for Nair, where he won the Ranji Trophy with Vidarbha after scoring 863 runs at an average of 53 with four centuries. However, he topped the run-scoring charts in the Vijay Hazare Trophy with five centuries in eight innings, averaging an unbelievable 389.
In the innings against the Lions, Nair, who was unbeaten on 138 off 186 balls at the time of writing this, had hit 19 fours and a six in his innings and was looking solid in the middle to convert that hundred into another big score.
Sarfaraz Khan, who was not selected for the Indian team after being part of the side on their tour of Australia earlier this year, also showed his prowess, smashing 92 off 119 balls, but missing out on a deserving hundred.