In domestic cricket, the previous season of that player was good. He scored a lot of runs for Vidarbha. But after 3 years, when he came out to play the first match of IPL, he had the question in the minds of some cricket pundits that he would be able to retain his domestic cricket form in the IPL too? That player answered this question from the first ball itself. We are talking about Karun Nair, who batted on behalf of Delhi Capitals in the match played against Mumbai Indians on 13 April. Is Bumrah, what Deepak Chahar and what Bolt, Karun Nair took news of everyone in his comeback match. And after seeing them doing this, the bridges of praise of commentators were not taking the name of stopping them.
Karun Nair narrowly survived the drowning in the river
Karun Nair is the same player who survived the river in July 2016. This incident took place a month after his ODI debut in June 2016. Karun Nair was going to visit the temple by boat in Kerala by boat. His boat was about to reach near the temple and overturned. 6 people died and many people were missing after the boat overturned in the river. Karun Nair had saved himself from drowning in that accident. He kept floating in the river until he was saved.
These players ate further stumble
However, even after that accident, the difficulties for Karun Nair did not diminish. Further difficulties came in his cricket career. He got his Test debut in November 2016, but further he dropped from Team India that he could not return. After dropping from Team India, he did not have a selection in IPL. He stayed out of IPL 2023 and IPL 2024. Meanwhile, he was also dropped by his state team Karnataka.
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Go to Vidarbha and scored runs, come in IPL
Karun Nair, who was dropped from Karnataka, again turned to Vidarbha and started playing in domestic cricket from there.
The run for Vidarbha in the last Ranji season and Vijay Hazare Trophy was the reason that in IPL 2025, Delhi Capitals connected him to themselves. And when he got the first opportunity as an impact player against Mumbai Indians, he scored 89 runs in 40 balls in it. Karun Nair’s innings played at a strike rate of 222.50 included 12 fours and 5 sixes. He was the most successful batsman of the entire match. Of course Delhi lost the match by 12 runs despite his innings. But in the first match, he showed how amazing players he is.