Ranji Trophy: Karun Nair completes 8000 First-Class runs during Vidarbha vs Kerala final | Cricket News

Vidarbha batter Karun Nair completed a massive milestone as he went past 8,000 First-Class during the Ranji Trophy final against Kerala at the VCA Stadium, Jamtha in Nagpur on Wednesday.
Featuring in his 114th First-Class match, Nair crossed the feat when he reached 10 runs after Vidarbha were asked to bat first Sachin Ba’s Kerala. Opting for a shuffle in the batting order, Nair walked in at number five in the 13th over after Kerala reduced the hosts to 24 for three.
The 33-year-old Nair who returned to the spotlight after a whirlwind Vijay Hazare Trophy campaign last month, finishing with 752 runs and five hundreds in seven innings, was also among the runs in the second phase of the Ranji Trophy. Nair smashed a hundred in Vidarbha’s last league game against Hyderabad and backed it up with his 22nd First Class century in the quarterfinal victory over Tamil Nadu.
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The former Karnataka batter is third among Vidarbha’s top run-getters this season, having gone past 650 runs in 15 innings with three centuries and a half-century.
The ongoing Ranji final is the fourth of Nair’s career since making two appearances for Karnataka between 2013-15 and for Vidarbha when they finished runners-up last year behind Mumbai. Nair played the final in his maiden First-Class season in 2013-14 as Karnataka beat Maharashtra to claim the title. In the following season, Nair emerged as the Player of the Match in the summit clash as he cracked a marathon 328 against Tamil Nadu as Karnataka defended their title.
While over 3700 runs of Nair’s career has come for Karnataka, his brief India Test career between 2016-17 also saw him become the second Test triple-centurion of the country behind Virender Sehwag, cracking an unbeaten 303 against England in Chennai.
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