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Karun Nair handled the team by scoring 57 runs in difficult circumstances in the fifth Test. Washington shared a 51 -run partnership with Sundar. In the IPL, Kevin Pietersen discussed batting in England. In this series, he is returning to the Test team after eight years.
Delhi: On the first day of the fifth Test match, India’s veteran batsman Karun Nair scored a brilliant half -century. He scored an unbeaten 52 runs while playing in a difficult time and reached India’s score to 204/6. Karun Nair was dropped from the fourth Test as he scored only 131 runs in the last six innings.
Washington Sundar also played an important role with Nair on the first day. The two together shared a 51 -run partnership for the seventh wicket. However, Karun could not last long the next day and returned to the pavilion for 57 runs.
Peterson praised Nair
After this combative innings of Karun Nair, former England player and Delhi Capitals batting coach Kevin Pietersen praised Nair. He told that during the IPL, both of them had a lot of discussion about batting in England.
After the first day’s game, Peterson wrote on the X (X), “I am very happy for Karun. He took over India’s innings. He works very hard on his game. In IPL, we talked for many hours about batting in England. Hopefully he will score a brilliant century today.”
So happy for karun and how he’s stabilized India’s batting yesterday. He’s a trendily hard worker on his game and we spent many hours talking about batting in england during the ipl.
I’m hoping he gets a wonderful 100 today!– Kevin Pietersen🦏 (@kp24) August 1, 2025
Return to Test team after 8 years
Karun Nair has returned to the Indian Test team after about eight years. He got a chance in the team after a great performance from Vidarbha in domestic cricket. Although his performance at the beginning of this series was not special, but this half -century innings played at the Oval shows that he still has power left.
India’s innings at 224
India’s innings did not start well. Yashasvi Jaiswal, KL Rahul, Shubman Gill, Ravindra Jadeja and Dhruv Jurael were dismissed cheaply. England bowlers took full advantage of the pitch helpful for bowling. When the game started on the second day, Karun and beautiful were batting. However, then Nair returned to the pavilion for 57 and Sundar 26 runs. After this, Mohammad Siraj and the famous Krishna were dismissed without opening an account. In their first innings, the Indian team was all out for 224 runs.
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