England’s India Tour: Karun Nair makes a shocking revelation – ‘A prominent Indian cricketer advised me to retire …’. Cricket news
Team India Batter Karun Nair has made a shocking revelation that a prominent Indian cricketer once advised him to retire from international cricket and focus on earning money through the T20 League.Nair told Mail Sport, “I still called me by a prominent Indian cricketer and said that I should retire because money will secure me in these leagues.”“It would be easy to do, but I knew that regardless of the money, I would kick myself to give up easily.
He said, “I was never going to play again for India. It was just two years ago, and see where we are now. It’s crazy, but deeply, I knew that I was quite good,” he said.Eight years after his final test appearance, Karun Nair is now on the verge of a remarkable return. Come on Friday, there is a strong possibility that it will be part of India’s play for the first Test against England, starting in Leeds from 20 June.Nair extended his case to return to India by scoring a dual century against Lions of England in an informal test at Cancerbury last week earlier.His return is the result of continuous performance in domestic cricket and a strong county tenure. Last Wednesday, he marked his official return to the Indian dressing room, in which coach Gautam Gambhir praised his flexibility.“No matter how many runs you have scored-what matters the most is that sometimes it is never.In two sessions for Northamptonshire, in ten county championship matches, Nair scored an average of 56.61, including a dual century against Glamorgan.He scored 863 runs in 2024–25 at 53.93 in the Ranji Trophy season, a title winner for Vidarbha. Earlier, he had a Vipul 50 -over campaign, killing five centuries in eight innings at an amazing average of 389.50 in the Vijay Hazare Trophy.
