A brush with death in summer, Karun Nair ends the year 303 not out
A brush with death in summer, Karun Nair ends the year 303 not out Emotional parents watching, Karun Nair from Karnataka enters record books by scoring maiden triple hundred. PREMA NAIR has never been comfortable watching her son bat. She’s paranoid about it. According to her, whenever she does, Karun gets out cheaply. Prema insists that Karun had been trapped lbw for 13 in the previous Test at Mumbai the moment she had returned from school — Chinmaya Vidayalaya in Bengaluru’s Koramangala area — and switched on the TV. So it took a lot of convincing and coaxing — along with a little “forcing” — from her husband, Kaladharan, for her to make the trip to Chennai and watch Karun play at the MA Chidambaram Stadium. As it turned out, Nair Jr never got out. Instead, he went on to become only the second Indian batsman to score a triple-century in Test cricket after Virender Sehwag. And he was playing only his third Test. His 303 not out against England in the fifth match of the series ...