Karun Nair becomes second Indian to score triple ton in Tests

Mangalore Today News Network

December 19, 2016: It has been a day of records for India. Karun Nair and Ravindra Jadeja have built a whirlwind seventh partnership that has crossed the 100 run mark in under 15 overs. Karun Nair in the process, scored his triple century, thus becoming the first ever player to convert a maiden century into a triple century. He is also only the second Indian to have cross the 300-run mark after Virender Sehwag. One of Sehwag’s two triple tons have come in Chennai.

 

Jadeja was since dismissed having made 51 runs. If his century from 185 balls wasn’t enough, he made it doubly great by reaching his two-hundred run mark from 306 balls. As Keaton Jennings came on to bowl in the post-Tea session, Nair strode forward on to his front foot and placed the ball beautifully for a boundary to reach 201 runs in the company of R Ashwin.

Before the start of the series, there was lot of doubt if Nair will be able to make his debut for India. But he did only in the third match. He not picked in the playing XI for the first two Tests in Rajkot and Visakhapatnam respectively.

Karun Nair became the 287th player from India to make his Test debut and it only after his Karnataka teammate and India opener KL Rahul was injured in Mohali. On Sunday, both were batting for India in Chennai. While KL Rahul was dismissed one run short of a deserved double hundred, Nair also made sure he reaches the three-figure mark.