KL Rahul has special message to Karun Nair ahead of England series

Indian wicketkeeper-batter KL Rahul has expressed beardown enactment for his erstwhile Karnataka teammate Karun Nair, who has made a comeback to the Indian Test cricket squad aft an eight-year gap.

Nair, who antecedently scored a triple period against England successful 2016, earned his callback pursuing awesome performances successful home cricket and region cricket successful England. Karun Nair's instrumentality to the nationalist squad comes aft a palmy stint with Northampton successful the 2024 County Championship Division Two, wherever helium scored 487 runs successful 11 innings. His caller signifier includes a treble period (204) for India A against England Lions successful an unofficial Test match.

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The 33-year-old Nair demonstrated exceptional signifier successful home cricket past season, accumulating 9 centuries crossed antithetic formats. His Ranji Trophy run yielded 863 runs successful 9 matches astatine an mean of 53.93, including 4 centuries and 2 half-centuries.

In the Vijay Hazare Trophy, Nair maintained his awesome run-scoring ability, amassing 779 runs successful 8 innings astatine an mean of 389.50, including 5 centuries.

His first-class cricket grounds shows 8470 runs successful 186 innings astatine an mean of 49.82, with 24 centuries and 36 half-centuries. "I've known him for a precise agelong clip and the months that helium spent present successful the UK playing cricket and however hard and however lonely it was and for him to beryllium capable to bash each of that and travel backmost into the Indian team," KL Rahul said successful a video posted by BCCI.

"I deliberation it's peculiar for him, for his family, and for friends similar america who've seen his journey.

So, similar I said precise inspiring arsenic good and hopefully his acquisition and his learnings from playing region cricket present volition clasp him successful bully stead erstwhile helium plays the Test matches here," Rahul added. Quiz: Who's that IPL player? Nair's erstwhile stint with the Indian Test squad lasted from November 2016 to March 2017, during which helium scored 374 runs successful 7 innings. His vocation item came erstwhile helium became lone the 2nd Indian batsman aft Virender Sehwag to people a triple period successful Test cricket, achieving the feat with an unbeaten 303 against England successful Chennai successful December 2016. "Feels truly special. Very grateful and precise fortunate to beryllium capable to get this accidental again and truly looking guardant and excited to drawback this accidental with some hands," Nair said successful effect to his selection. "Not definite actually! I deliberation I'll person to acquisition that feeling myself and, you know, conscionable spell retired determination and consciousness it for myself. And I'm definite there'll beryllium a batch of feelings, ones that I can't explicit close present and It'll beryllium a peculiar feeling," Nair added erstwhile asked astir his emotions regarding the comeback. The duo of Rahul and Nair stock a agelong history, having played age-group cricket unneurotic and precocious representing Delhi Capitals successful the 2025 IPL season. Nair's enactment for the upcoming five-match Test bid against England comes with the vantage of his caller acquisition successful English conditions done region cricket.