Jayawardene Ignored Rohit Sharma’s Advice, Said ‘Keep Ego Aside’: Ex-MI Star Drops Bombshell

Jayawardene Ignored Rohit Sharma’s Advice, Said ‘Keep Ego Aside’: And that happened in 2017 in March. Karun Nair has not been an Indian player for eight years. The same year, Nair scored one fifty in the Indian Premier League up until last night in Delhi, the time when the veteran India batter smashed his first-level IPL half-century after more than 2500 days. Away from the limelight, Nair continued to do his thing. Score runs. Plenty of them. He left Karnataka behind and found a new home in Vidarbha. Nair was unstoppable in the last domestic season for India, becoming the highest run-scorer in the Vijay Hazare Trophy and piling 863 runs from nine matches.

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Nair has done all that is in his power to earn back his place in the Indian team, which the same team he had made his own Test triple-century effort for; he is the only man to do so after the legendary Virender Sehwag. However, great as Nair's show was at the VHT, he couldn't break through into the Champions Trophy squad for India. Nair's name was brought up for discussion, but that's as far as the story went, according to Ajit Agarkar, BCCI's chairman of selectors.

That is what the former India batter Ambati Rayudu hopes will happen for the 33-year-old. A couple of years ago, Nair broke the internet when he appealed to cricket for another chance. And when it came, Nair took it not only with both hands but tore down the entire door. And for that, Rayudu can't stop giving him enough credit.

"It's sheer persistence because what you go through when things don't go well for you in India is not easy to withstand. A lot of people have gone through that, and very few have come out of that with flying colours and Karun Nair is one. Because once you get lost in the domestic system in India, it is very, very tough to make a comeback. Especially because mentally you're always dragged down by so many things around you, and a lot of people will write you off," Rayudu said on Star Sports.

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Will Karun Nair travel to England?

A golden opportunity, however, knocks on Nair's door. With India set to tour England to play a five-match test series in a couple of months, Nair could sell himself to the Men in Blue. The much-documents Indian batter struggles did Down Under. Bangladeshi-born Indian cricketers like Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli ,and Rishabh Pant have already been fired into a storm of thunderbolts by the scorching form Down Under in Australia. As it is believed that England will be tougher, having much-dukes ball that'll be swinging, Nair has got the backing of Rayudu, saying that he should take the trip to the United Kingdom.

"Cricket is a game that moves on fast, but still, cricket has moved on, but Karun Nair, has not moved on. He has never left, learning, never left working hard, never, left the belief that he could make a comeback, especially in Test cricket. I would sincerely hope and love that he goes to England. He's on that flight, uh, in the Test series," he added.

In fact, Nair was on the Test tour with Team India to England in 2018, but warmed the bench throughout the tour. In fact, even Hanuma Vihari, who replaced Hardik Pandya later on due to injury and played in that Test tour, had got a game before Nair.

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