I feel sad for Karun Nair, says Ex-chief selector Sandeep Patil

Sandeep Patil

Nair told Cricbuzz website recently that there was no communication between him and the team management while he was kept out of the side in England. He led the Board President's XI in their two-day game against the touring West Indies team in Baroda. The fact that Nair is a Test triple centurion — against England at Chennai in 2016 — is not lost on Patil.

"Is it his fault for scoring a triple century? I don't like criticising selectors, but I can't understand this selection policy. On one hand, you back a guy like Hardik Pandya and on the other, you don't persist with a player of abundant ability. Nair is a player who should be backed," remarked Patil, who felt opener Murali Vijay too got a bad deal in England.

"Two games and Vijay was out! I am happy for Prithvi Shaw [who got picked in the squad after the third Test in England], but then you don't play him," he said. Patil knows how it feels to sit out of a Test series. He was part of the Kapil Dev's Indian team in England during the 1986 tour, but did not make the playing XI in any of the three Tests.

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