IND vs Eng 2nd Test 0,20,31,26, 4 innings 77 runs, Karun Nair’s flop show, 77 runs in 4 innings

Rajiv’s report from Birmingham. You must have heard the saying of hitting a four on the occasion, you must have read and seen and many players are seen doing so, but there are some players who get many opportunities after years but they go on missing. The problem is more when it seems that this time he will not miss, but only then does it happen which no one would have expected. A similar image has been created by Karun Nair.

After 8 years, Karun Nair got a chance to play Test cricket again in Leeds and he was also entitled to it because he reached here by scoring runs in domestic cricket. But it is said that in cricket, along with skills, luck also has a big role, then by making 31 and 26 in both innings of Azbaston, he was dismissed, that is, they are not able to convert good starts in big scores.

Nair failed on a run -filled pitch

On Azbaston’s pitch, when it was decided that Karun Nair would bat at number three, everyone felt that a big innings would be seen this time with his bat. The beginning in the first innings was also very good when the fans were clapping on every cover drive and straight drive of Karun when he could not handle a bouncing ball of Brian Corrs and his catch was caught in the slip. In the second innings too, Nair started his lifeless, but he was caught on the frontfoot drive this time and was a bowler and then Brian Cors. In the headingley, the pitch was also with runs, but there too they were victims of bad shot selection in both innings. In 4 innings of 2 Tests, at an average of 19.25, only 77 runs tell the whole story themselves.

Playing XI can clean the leaf!

If someone is most disappointed with the failure received in four innings of Nair, then it is the Indian team management. When Nair was fed in the first match, Nair was given a chance before Abhimanyu Ishwar and Dhruv Jurlel, who has been with the team for the past several tours. When he failed at number 6 in the first Test, all the cricket experts said that they would perform better at number 3 but this did not happen. Sometimes he was upset with the bounce and sometimes he could not stop the greed of the drive. Nair’s failure is a bit surprising because he reached England playing long innings in domestic cricket but his band rang here.