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Out-of-favour India batter Karun Nair is at present wreaking havoc in home cricket. Exploiting his terrific run of type, the right-handed batter slammed his fourth successive hundred, fifth in complete of this version of the Vijay Hazare Trophy, as Vidarbha outclassed Rajasthan by 9 wickets to maneuver into the semifinals of the premier home 50-over event. Karun continued his red-hot type on this iteration of the Vijay Hazare Trophy, putting his fifth hundred total – a whirlwind unbeaten 82-ball 122 with the assistance of 13 fours and 5 sixes. This was additionally his fourth successive ton within the final 5 innings.
Karun is now on par with former Karnataka teammate Devdutt Padikkal, former Sri Lankan skipper Kumar Sangakkara and ex-South African batter Alviro Petersen as batters with 4 successive Record A tons of. The 33-year-old Karun has 664 runs from eight matches at an astonishing common of 664.
The star batter made his India debut again in 2016 and solely in his third Check match, he went on to attain an unbeaten 303, turning into the second Indian participant following Virender Sehwag to smash a triple hundred within the format.
After this, Karun was given simply three Check matches to play for India earlier than being dropped from the squad. He has not been in a position to make a comeback since then.
Throughout an interview to The Lallantop, former India cricketer Robin Uthappa spoke about how a number of gamers are ignored regardless of good type in home cricket. He began with the instance of Abhimanyu Easwaran earlier than citing the title of Karun and his achievements. Uthappa additionally slammed India’s cricket ecosystem.
“If you are not going to let him play, then why are you giving hope to him. Just tell him that you don’t believe that he can succeed in international cricket, just play and score runs in domestic cricket. If you are giving him a chance, and this has happened with so many players, Karun Nair, he was removed from the team after his 300 and only two Test matches.”
“It is a shocker because of our cricket ecosystem.”
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