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Karun Nair creates history: Karun Nair, who has been wreaking havoc with the bat in the domestic ODI tournament Vijay Hazare Trophy 2025 for the last few days, missed playing a big innings in the final against his native state Karnataka, but in the last innings of the tournament, At the same time, he created such a history that it is very difficult to say which batsman will be able to surpass it in the future. Vidarbha captain Karun Nair came at number three while chasing 348 runs to win from Karnataka, but could only score 27 runs with 4 fours in 31 balls in the last innings of the tournament before being bowled by Prasidh Krishna. Whether Vidarbha wins the match or not will be known only later, but let us look at the history that Karun Nair has created.
Big wicket
Prasidh Krishna gets the crucial wicket of Karun Nair #VijayHazareTrophy , @IDFCFIRSTBank
Scorecard https://t.co/ZZjfWXaajB pic.twitter.com/0D0CUIyuYO
— BCCI Domestic (@BCCIDomestic) January 18, 2025
This standard is crazy!
Karun Nair, who scored back-to-back centuries in the last few matches, finished the tournament with a total average of 389.50 in 8 innings of 9 matches. Before the final, his average was 752 and he was out only once. His final innings of 24 runs halved his average. In this journey, he scored 5 centuries and 1 half-century, while his best score was 163* not out.
Scoring 752 runs in 7 innings with 5 centuries is nothing short of extraordinary, @karun126Performances like these don’t just happen, they come from immense focus and hard work. Keep going strong and make every opportunity count!
— Sachin Tendulkar (@sachin_rt) January 17, 2025
Sachin also became Karun’s admirer
With one century after another and a blazing average, Karun won the hearts of even Master Blaster Sachin. And on the eve of Champions Trophy selection, Sachin praised Karun’s feat on X, calling it “less than extraordinary”. However, this performance could not earn him a place in the team for the mega event.
This feat is still discussed today!
Karun Nair had attracted the attention of the entire cricket world in the year 2016, when in the second Test of his career, he made everyone sit tight by playing an unbeaten inning of 303* runs against England in Chennai. But from here, only his next four innings were so bad that he never got a call from Team India again. Many stalwarts discuss it with surprise, now Vijay Hazare’s feat has also been included in it.
