India, May 29 -- Karun Nair's storied comeback is one full of determination and hard work. India's only other triple-centurion in Tests after Virender Sehwag, Nair was dropped from the team in 2018, never to play for another eight years. Until May 24, 2025, when life came full circle for Nair and he was picked in India's 18-member squad for the tour of England. However, incidentally, it was in England itself where something unexplainable happened with Nair. For that, we'll have to go back to 2018 - India's tour of England, with Virat Kohli as captain and Ravi Shastri their coach.

After scoring an unbeaten 303 against England in Chennai, Nair had a few lukewarm outings against Australia in the 2017-18 Border-Gavaskar Trophy, with scores o...