Harbhajan's question to Agarkar after Karun Nair's Champions Trophy snub: 'Is there a factor playing domestic cricket?'
Karun Nair no longer being picked for the ICC Champions Trophy is a number of the large trends that got here out of india captain rohit sharma and chairman of selectors Ajit Agarkar's press conference on Saturday.
Karun, who ultimate played for india in a test fit in march 2017, has long past on a report-breaking run of shape within the vijay hazare Trophy 50-over match and former spinner harbhajan singh has requested if there may be any factor in playing domestic cricket at all if performances like those are not going to be rewarded.
"Is there a factor gambling home cricket when you don't select gamers based totally on shape & overall performance ? #KarunNair," stated Harbhajan in a post on his X account. Nair, who shifted his home cricket base to Vidarbha, has gone on an stunning run of form within the ongoing vijay hazare Trophy. The middle-order batter scored 752 runs in 7 suits, with an mind-blowing average of 752, which covered five centuries.
notwithstanding his impressive numbers, Nair didn't make the reduce as the selectors went ahead with KL Rahul, shreyas iyer and rishabh pant within the middle-order.
Ajit Agarkar on why india didn't select Karun Nair
Agarkar recounted Nair's stellar average however asserted that it is extremely difficult to in shape each person into the squad. "I suggest, the ones are simply unique performances and that i mean a person who averages approximately seven hundred+, 750 + or something, we did have a talk, no doubt approximately it, when the ones sort of performances occur. at the moment, to discover a spot on this team is very tough," Agarkar said within the press conference.
Nair's sensational exploits powered Vidarbha to the event's very last against Karnataka, which started out some hours after the clicking convention. For once Nair didn't fire, being brushed off by way of Prasidh krishna on 27 off 31 balls. His shape this season has but made a big splash, with batting legend Sachin Tendulkar terming his performances "not anything brief of first rate."
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