In the last few months, one player whose name has been in the most discussion in Indian cricket is Karun Nair. The Karnataka batsman, which has been out of Team India for nearly 7-8 years, made a strong comeback by scoring runs in the last domestic season and caught the attention of the cricket fans of the whole country. The result of his brilliant performance is that after 3 years, he got a chance to show his glory in the IPL as well and after 1077 days, Karun, who was playing his first IPL match, scored a smooth half -century in just 22 balls.

Karun Nair, who scored a mountain of centuries and runs in the Ranji Trophy, Vijay Hazare Trophy and Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy in the last few months, continued this form in the IPL as well.

Karun Nair, who played the last match in IPL 2022, was fielded by Delhi Capitals in the match against Mumbai Indians and this legendary batsman rained fours and sixes as soon as it arrived.

In response to 206 runs from Mumbai Indians, Delhi lost the wicket of opener Jake-Fresher McGark on the first ball itself. After this, the coach of Delhi fielded Karun Nair as an impact player. In the last 3 seasons, Nair was descending for the first time for batting and this batsman did not spend much time to show the impact of his best form.

Nair hit 3 fours on Trent Bolt in the second over. Then, Jasprit Bumrah, who came in the fourth over, also made 2 fours and made it clear that he would target everyone.

Bumrah's flag flown, herb fifty

But in the sixth over, Karun Nair showed the most explosive form, when he blown up the flag of Jasprit Bumrah. On the very first ball of this over, Nair hit a brilliant six. Then Nair also gathered a four off the third ball. He did not stop here and on the fifth ball, he scored a wonderful six over the covers and blown everyone's senses.

Hardly anyone would have thought that Bumrah would be beaten like this. Nair completed a memorable half -century in just 22 balls with 2 runs off the last ball of this over.

This was his first half -century in IPL after 2018. But even after this, Nair's attack continued and from Hardik Pandya to Karn Sharma, he hurled fours and sixes on everyone. However, Karun was very close to the century. A amazing ball of Mitchell Santner blew up his stumps. Nair played an incredible innings of 89 runs in 40 balls, including 12 fours and 5 sixes.

Sidhu-Sahwag's mouth closed

Nair's innings was special because he shut down the mouths of many critics, that too during this match. In fact, when Nair came for batting, former Indian batsman Navjot Singh Sidhu, who was doing Hindi commentary in Star Sports, made fun of him. Sidhu said that the runs scored by Nair were in Ranji, while IPL is the World Cup of Best Players. Not only this, Sidhu even said that the run in Ranji is like dancing peacock in the forest, which no one saw. Virender Sehwag also said yes to Sidhu and said that there was less pressure in Ranji and Nair scored these runs against the local bowlers.