India, March 2 -- Vidarbha batting mainstay Karun Nair, on Saturday, further strengthened his case for an India comeback in the upcoming Test tour of England with a century in the ongoing Ranji Trophy 2024/25 final against Kerala in Nagpur. However, he put the ball in the selectors' court, with the committee having earlier ignored him for the Champions Trophy despite his stellar effort in the Vijay Hazare Trophy.

Nair, one of the only two Indians in history to have scored triple hundreds in Test cricket, has been in ravishing form in domestic cricket. After a record-scripting run in the 50-over Vijay Hazare Trophy, where he smashed 779 runs in nine games, laced with five centuries and one fifty at a mind-boggling average of 389.50, he ca...