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Karun Nair went previous 8000 runs in first-class cricket as his half-century helped regular Vidarbha’s batting innings after a top-order collapse towards Kerala.
Karun Nair scored a fifty in Vidarbha’s recreation towards Kerala within the Ranji Trophy remaining. (Picture: PTI)
Home batting star, Karun Nair reached 8000 runs in first-class cricket throughout the Ranji Trophy remaining match between Vidarbha and Kerala happening on the VCA Stadium in Jamtha, Nagpur on Wednesday.
Nair, on his 114th match within the first-class format, got here out to bat at quantity 5 after Kerala began robust with three wickets for simply 24 runs. After scoring 10 runs, he reached the milestone.
The out-of-favour worldwide star continues to dominate within the home codecs. He scored a century in Vidarbha’s remaining league stage recreation towards Hyderabad and adopted it up with one other in a quarterfinal conflict towards Tamil Nadu as nicely. He’s presently the third-highest run-scorer for Vidarbha within the season with 673 runs. Yash Rathod is their main run-scorer with 933 runs up to now.
The continuing title conflict makes it Nair’s fourth remaining. He was beforehand a part of the Karnataka squad that made it to the summit-clash within the 2013-14 season and the 2014-15 seasons the place Karnataka managed to win two back-to-back titles in India’s premier first-class competitors.
Nair has been in high quality type currently the place he dominated within the Vijay Hazare Trophy, setting a world report for essentially the most consecutive runs scored with out being dismissed. He had amassed over 500 runs within the competitors after being dismissed towards Uttar Pradesh within the recently-concluded competitors.
His spectacular batting shows within the event additionally noticed him scoring essentially the most runs in an version of the Vijay Hazare Trophy after ending with 542 runs. Whereas he has but to make a comeback in worldwide cricket, he continues to be picked within the Indian Premier League the place he was picked up by the Delhi Capitals within the 2025 mega-auction.
After Vidarbha’s top-order collapse, Nair together with Danish Malewar steadied the ship with a 150+ partnership. Nair crossed his half-century whereas Malewar hit an important century as the 2 batters continued taking the sport away from Kerala.
Vidarbha will look to redeem themselves after shedding out to Mumbai in final 12 months’s remaining within the Ranji Trophy however their opponents, Kerala will look to create historical past by profitable their first title. For now, the hosts will look to register an enormous first-innings whole to make sure that they’ve sufficient runs to work with and bowl out the Sachin Child-led facet to safe the title.
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Nagpur, India, India