Karun Nair

India|Top order Batter
Karun Nair
INTL CAREER: 2016 - 2025
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Full Name

Karun Nair

Born

December 06, 1991, Jodhpur, Rajasthan

Age

33y 243d

Batting Style

Right hand Bat

Bowling Style

Right arm Offbreak

Playing Role

Top order Batter

A technically solid middle-order batter with the ability to build long innings in red-ball cricket, Karun Nair played six Tests for India in 2016-17, but by 2022 the Test triple-centurion, state captain and two-time Ranji trophy winner couldn't find a place in the Karnataka squad across formats. At the time, the prospect of a comeback, let alone a Test comeback, looked bleak. But Nair made it possible, through the sheer weight of his runs and consistency across formats for his new team, Vidarbha.

In June 2025, he completed that circle, making his way into the Indian squad for the Test series against England. The comeback, though, was far from a fairy tale. He made a duck in his first innings, and 20 in the second. Two more Tests and four innings later, Nair was left out of the fourth Test at Old Trafford.

Nair burst onto the scene in 2013-14, on the back of prolific age-group seasons for Karnataka and saw success early. In his maiden season, he hit three back-to-back centuries - including in the quarter-final and semi-finals, during Karnataka's run to the Ranji title that he sealed with a six. The next year he helped Karnataka lift their second straight Ranji Trophy, scoring 328 in the final.

An India debut followed, in an unremarkable ODI series against Zimbabwe, in 2016. He made a real impact in his debut Test series though, against England, scoring an unbeaten 303 in Chennai, but three middling Tests later he was out of the national side for the next eight years.

In 2023 he moved to Vidharbha, and in 2024-25 his 863 runs at 53.93 helped them win their third Ranji Trophy title. Prior to that, he hit five hundreds in eight innings - in six of those he was unbeaten - at an average of 389.50 at the Vijay Hazare Trophy. During that campaign, he broke James Franklin's List A record of most runs (542) without being dismissed.

Karun Nair Career Stats

Batting & Fielding

FormatMatInnsNORunsHSAveBFSR100s50s4s6sCtSt
Tests10151579303*41.3589664.6211704100
ODIs220463923.008852.27006000
FC12019416867532848.731643052.7924371074451020
List A10797213128163*41.15350589.2481433053450
T20s17115617366011126.332681136.51222367126680

Bowling

FormatMatInnsBallsRunsWktsBBIBBMAveEconSR4w5w10w
Tests10212110---5.50-000
ODIs2------------
FC120731563849162/102/1053.063.2597.6000
List A10743976832162/162/1652.005.1161.0000
T20s171118510041/21/225.007.0521.2000

Karun Nair T20 Stats

Batting & Fielding

TournamentTeamsMatInnsNORunsHSAveBFSR100s50s4s6sCtSt
IPL4 teams8476516948923.851286131.7201118549250

Bowling

TournamentTeamsMatInnsBallsRunsWktsBBIBBMAveEconSR4w5w10w
IPL4 teams84------------
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Karun Nair is disappointed after his dismissal
Karun Nair added five to his overnight score
Karun Nair celebrates his fifty
Karun Nair plays a shot
Karun Nair was brought back into the team in place of Shardul Thakur
Yashasvi Jaiswal, Abhimanyu Easwaran, Karun Nair, Dhruv Jurel train in Beckenham