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After about 8 years, the celebration of the call found in Team India has been celebrated by veteran batsman Karun Nair with a memorable innings. Karun Nair, who was selected for the Test series between India and England, has scored a great double century while playing for India A. The first unofficial Test match being played between India A and England Lions before the Test series is being played and Karun completed his double century on the second day of this match. Apart from Karun, Dhruv Jurael also played a great innings but he missed his century by just 6 runs.
Put a century on the first day
The first unofficial Test match between India A and England Lions started in Canterbury from Friday 30 May. On the first day, India-A landed for batting and openers Abhimanyu Ishwaran and Yashasvi Jaiswal failed to play a big innings. Karun Nair, who came at number three after two wickets fell early, took over the innings. Most of the eyes were on him whether he would be able to continue his great form of Indian domestic cricket in England as well. Nair did not disappoint the matter and scored a memorable century on the very first day.
Dumped with a double century
Karun Nair, who returned 186 on the first day, was expected to complete a double century on the second day and the experienced batsman did not disappoint. He also completed the remaining 14 runs within an hour. Nair hit a score of 199 and completed his memorable double century. He achieved this special place in 272 balls. During his innings, the right -handed batsman hit 26 fours and 1 six. Although he finally was out for 204 runs, but by then he had brought India A close to 500 runs.
Karun has a special attachment to England
This is the fourth double century of 33 -year -old Karun Nair’s first class career. Incidentally, 3 of this double centuries have come against England or its associated teams. He scored a historic triple century in the Chennai Test against England in 2016. Then last year, he came to England and scored an innings of more than two hundred runs against Glamorgan in county cricket. Now this vigorous score has come out from his bat against England Lions for India A.
