Despite scoring 5 centuries in 7 innings, this legendary Indian batsman could not make it to the Champions Trophy team.

Karun Nair: Veteran batsman Karun Nair, who created a sensation by scoring a triple century in Tests for India, was dropped from the team after playing just 6 matches. Now after 8 years, he has caught everyone's attention with his brilliant performance in domestic cricket. Karun Nair has scored 752 runs in the last 7 innings while captaining Vidarbha in the Vijay Hazare Trophy. This performance has raised hopes of him playing ODI once again after 2017. But it did not get a place in the Champions Trophy 2025.

Team India announced

The ICC Champions Trophy 2025 is scheduled to begin on February 19. A total of 8 teams will participate in this tournament in which the teams of India and host Pakistan have not been announced yet. In which Team India has been announced today. The chief selector along with captain Rohit Sharma announced the names of the players in a press conference at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai. Mohammed Shami has finally returned to Team India. He was out of the team due to injury for a long time. However, Bumrah was injured at the moment. His back was injured. However, Bumrah has been included in the team again. However, experienced batsman Karun Nair did not get a place in the team.

Last match was played in 2017

Karun Nair was expected to return to the Indian team for the ICC event but the selectors did not include him in the team. Nair is 33 years old and played his last match for India in 2017. In the year 2016, Karun got a chance to play two ODI matches against Zimbabwe under the captaincy of MS Dhoni.

Nair may return to the test team

Nair was certainly on the selectors' radar after his stellar performance in the Vijay Hazare Trophy but his return to the Indian team was unlikely. Now he is hopeful of getting a place in the test team. Considering the struggle of Indian batsmen in Australia, Nair may return to the Test team.

Second Indian batsman to score a triple century in Test

Karun Nair has scored 374 runs in 7 innings of 6 Tests. Nair is the second Indian batsman after Virender Sehwag to score a triple century in Tests. He played an unbeaten inning of 303 runs against England in the Chennai Test in 2016. But after this he lost his place in the Test team. He was dropped from Karnataka's Ranji Trophy team in 2022. After this Nair joined the Vidarbha team and caught everyone's attention with his explosive batting as captain.