India, July 18 -- Former India cricketer Farokh Engineer didn't mince his words while criticising Karun Nair, who failed to make an impact with the bat in the ongoing Test series against England. The Vidarbha batter, who made a comeback into the Indian team after eight years, has failed to cross the 50-run mark in the six innings, and now, with India currently trailing 1-2, his place in the XI has been put under the scanner. He has managed just 131 runs at a batting average of less than 22 and failed at both number 3 and 5 so far.

Farokh slammed Karun for not converting his starts into big scores, which is required from a batter who is batting at number 3.

"Karun Nair has been getting brilliant 20s and 30s. He's (Nair) scored beautiful ...