In the last match of IPL 2025 against Punjab Kings, India won by 6 wickets. Karun Nair played an important role in this victory. Delhi Capitals batsman Karun Nair has returned to the Indian Test team for the England tour, which he is very happy about. He has said that he was waiting for this for a long time.
Let us tell you that Nair, who returned to the Test team after eight years, scored 44 runs in 27 balls. Delhi achieved the target of 207 runs in 19.3 overs. Nair said after the match,
“𝑰𝒕 𝒇𝒆𝒆𝒍𝒔 𝒈𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒕 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒘𝒆 𝒅𝒆𝒔𝒆𝒓𝒗𝒆𝒅 𝒊𝒕. 𝑾𝒆 𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒎 𝒂𝒕 𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒃𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒔𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒐𝒏 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒎𝒂𝒕𝒄𝒉 𝒘𝒆 𝒔𝒉𝒐𝒘𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒕𝒆𝒂𝒎 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒈𝒐𝒐𝒅 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝒔𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝒎𝒂𝒕𝒄𝒉𝒆𝒔 𝒘𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒃𝒂𝒅.”
Karun Nair gave a big statement regarding his return to Team India
Regarding his performance, he said,
“𝑰 𝒄𝒂𝒎𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝑰𝑷𝑳 𝒂𝒇𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒔𝒄𝒐𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂 𝒍𝒐𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝒓𝒖𝒏𝒔. 𝑰 𝒉𝒂𝒅 𝒏𝒐 𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒌 𝒐𝒇 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒇𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆. 𝑰 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒚𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒃𝒊𝒈 𝒔𝒉𝒐𝒕𝒔 𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒍𝒚 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒊𝒏𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒔, 𝒐𝒏 𝒘𝒉𝒊𝒄𝒉 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒐𝒂𝒄𝒉𝒆𝒔 𝒂𝒅𝒗𝒊𝒔𝒆𝒅 𝒎𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒂𝒌𝒆 𝒎𝒚 𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒚 𝒂𝒈𝒈𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒍𝒚.”
Regarding his selection in the Test team, he said,
“𝑰 𝒂𝒎 𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒈𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒇𝒖𝒍 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝑰 𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒎𝒂𝒌𝒆 𝒂 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒃𝒂𝒄𝒌. 𝑰 𝒂𝒎 𝒍𝒖𝒄𝒌𝒚 𝒕𝒐 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒈𝒐𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒐𝒑𝒑𝒐𝒓𝒕𝒖𝒏𝒊𝒕𝒚. 𝑰 𝒕𝒐𝒐 𝒄𝒂𝒎𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒌𝒏𝒐𝒘 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒈𝒖𝒚𝒔. 𝑰 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒘𝒂𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒂 𝒍𝒐𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆. 𝑰 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒓𝒆𝒄𝒆𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒅 𝒂 𝒍𝒐𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒈𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒖𝒍𝒂𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒚 𝒎𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒂𝒈𝒆𝒔.”
Karun Nair played his last Test match for India in 2017. He was dropped from the team soon after becoming India’s second triple century maker. The world around him thought all hope was lost, but Nair did not give up hope of making a comeback. This hope forced him to return to the ways of playing cricket and joining the Northamptonshire team in English county cricket was the first sensible step towards this.
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