After 7 years, Karun Nair, after 16 months, Shardul Thakur returns to India, it is necessary to play domestic cricket for white jersey

After the retirement of Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma, the Indian team in Test cricket will visit England in June next month. The Indian team was announced on Saturday for this tour. Shubman Gill was made the captain. Rishabh Pant was handed over the vice -captain. With the announcement of this team, it became clear that we have to focus on domestic cricket to wear white jerseys.

At least in Test cricket, the Indian team will not be selected on the basis of IPL. For Test cricket, the best performance in red -ball cricket will matter. It is very important to play domestic cricket. The biggest example of this is the return of players like Karun Nair and Shardul Thakur. If the players were selected on the basis of IPL, then Abhimanyu Ishwaran would hardly be proud. Nitish Reddy would also hardly play. While Rishabh Pant is not made vice -captain.

Karun Nair got a chance in the Indian team after 8 years after performing the best performance in domestic cricket. Shardul Thakur returned to the Indian Test team after about one and a half years. Shardul Thakur was not selected on a tour of Australia. After this, he performed well for Mumbai in domestic cricket and also impressed everyone with the ball with the ball.

Statistics of Karun Nair and Shardul

At the same time, Karun Nair scored 863 runs in 16 innings of 9 matches in the Ranji Trophy at an average of 53.93. This includes 4 centuries and 2 half -centuries. Shardul scored 505 runs in 12 innings of 9 matches at an average of 42.08. It also includes 1 century and 4 half -centuries. He also took 35 wickets in 18 innings.