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Sachin Tendulkar lauded Vidarbha batter Karun Nair amid his purple patch.© X (Twitter)
Legendary Indian cricketer Sachin Tendulkar lauded Vidarbha batter Karun Nair amid his purple patch within the Vijay Hazare Trophy, saying that performances like this simply don’t occur out of nowhere, they arrive from “immense focus and hard work”. Nair, who’s captaining Vidarbha within the ongoing Vijay Hazare Trophy, will play the title conflict in opposition to his former workforce Karnataka at Vadodara on Saturday. Nair is the top-run-getter within the tournamen thus far, having collected an enormous 752 runs in seven matches at a mind-boggling common of 752.00 resulting from him being unbeaten in six innings.
He has additionally scored 5 centuries and a fifty within the competitors, with the most effective rating of 163*. His strike price is 125.96.
— Sachin Tendulkar (@sachin_rt) January 17, 2025
Within the semifinal in opposition to Maharashtra on Thursday, Nair made a quickfire 88* in 44 balls, with 9 fours and 5 sixes to information Vidarbha to a match-winning whole of 380 runs. Maharashtra might solely make 311/7.
Nair is on the verge of breaking an all-time report within the event. If he scores 79 extra runs within the event, he’ll overtake Tamil Nadu batter Narayan Jagadeesan’s tally of 830 runs (in eight matches, at a median of 138.33, with a strike price of over 125 and 5 centuries, a greatest rating of 277) in the course of the 2022/23 version of the competitors.
This sturdy efficiency within the event has earned Nair acclaim from the cricketing fraternity and followers alike, with many demanding he will get one other name to the Indian workforce. Having final performed for India in March 2017, Nair was the one Take a look at triple centurion for India after legendary opener Virender Sehwag.
In six Assessments for India since his debut in 2016, he made 374 runs in seven innings at a median of 62.33, with greatest rating of 303*. Nair additionally performed two ODIs for India, scoring 46 runs with greatest rating of 39.
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