I am happy that the Indian management has included Sai Sudarsan in the squad, leaving out Karun Nair. In this important series, the Indian management has given Karun Nair a chance. If Nair had been able to prove his worth, he would have undoubtedly become one of the permanent players in the Indian squad. But Nair missed the opportunity. Karun Nair could not bat well in even one match.
Nair can't complain now. Unfortunately, this is the end of his international career and there will be no comeback. He played a total of 3 tests and failed to score even one half-century. To give him advantage, the captain even asked him to bat at no.3. Even that didn't worked for him. And now the chance need to be given to Sai Sudarshan. Unfortunately, this raises the question about the quality of Indian domestic cricket. Players such as Nair, Sarfaraz Khan and Abhimanyu Easwaran scores a lot of runs in Ranji Trophy. But they fail to replicate this while playing under SENA conditions.
This was probably the last chance of 33-year-old Karun Nair's career. But karun nair has completely failed to make good use of the opportunity. BCCI will not give any more chance to Nair next.
However, I think Karun nair should have been given a chance against relatively weaker teams, like Bangladesh, Sri Lanka or West Indies. But BCCI has given Nair a tough challenge. England is very strong among the Test playing nations. Also, the series is being played in England. If this was India's home series, maybe we would have seen a little better performance from Karun nair