India batter Karun Nair is ruled out of the upcoming Duleep Trophy 2025 season with a fractured finger. This comes on the back of a disappointing Engalnd tour for him personally.
The Karnataka batter scored only 205 runs in the series, with one fifty-plus score in the first innings of the Oval Test. Karun scored a couple of 40s and got good starts, but he managed just one half-century.
The batter was included in the side on the back of his consistent performances in domestic cricket. He was chosen ahead of Shreyas Iyer in the Test side, despite Shreyas being in good form in domestic cricket himself.
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Karun Nair Injured His Finger In Oval Test
Karun Nair’s injury comes at a time when he might run out of favour for a place in the Indian Test side going forward. Despite getting the backing in the England series, the right-hander failed to live upto all the build-up that was made about him before his return. There is also no timeline as to when he might fully recover from his injury.
“Karun Nair suffered a minor fracture on his finger after being struck on the hand by a rising delivery during the second innings of the Oval Test. Nair will not play for Central Zone in the upcoming Duleep Trophy,” the TOI report stated.
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Karun's Rich Vein Of Form In Domestic Cricket
Nair scored heavily in domestic cricket before eventually making a comeback to the Indian Test team against England in 2025. In 2024, he switched to Vidarbha from Karnataka and scored 863 runs at an average of 53.93 with four centuries in the Ranji Trophy season. He backed it up by scoring 779 runs in 8 innings with a strike rate of 124.01 and an unbelievable average of 389.50. Karun remained unbeaten in six out of the eight innings, scoring five centuries.
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