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A cricketer with 3 innings but many records

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Published on December 23, 2016 with No Comments

  • Nair’s 303 is now the third-highest individual score in a test innings by an Indian batsman. Ahead of him is former ace opener Virender Sehwag, who scored 319 vs South Africa in 2008, and 309 vs Pakistan in 2004.   Interestingly, former India captain Dravid, often referred to as the Wall of Indian Cricket, is known to have been instrumental in grooming Nair for the national side. Impressed by his good strike rate in the limited-overs format, Dravid had roped him in for the Rajasthan Royals IPL squad in 2014.
  • Nair, who currently plays forDelhi Daredevils in the Indian Premier League (IPL), scored at a healthy rate, too. His strike-rate of 79.52 is the third-fastest among all triple-centurions in the history of cricket. Also, his score is the highest ever by an Indian against England in Tests. It is also the highest score by an Indian batting at the number 5 slot, surpassing former test skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s 224 against Australia in 2013.
  • When Nair first turned up for India in a test – the third match of theIndia-England series in Mohali from November 26 to 30 this year – it had not exactly been a dream test debut for the youngster. While in the first innings he scored only 4 runs off 4 balls before being run out by J C Buttler, in the second he did not get a chance to bat; the match had been won before his turn to bat would come. His second appearance – in the fourth test match from December 8 to 12 in Mumbai – was hardly better. Nair had scored only 13 in the first innings when he was trapped leg before wicket by Moeen Ali. Since India won this match by an innings and 36 run, there was no second chance here for Nair.  However, the young man seemed to have made up for the two missed opportunities before by smashing 32 fours and four sixes in his historic innings of 303*. Addressing the media after the Chepauk test, Nair said: “After getting the hundred, pressure was off. So, I just played my shots normally. I am happy that I got the runs. There was no extra pressure that I put on myself.”

 

 

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