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Sr cricketer once advised me to retire & focus on T20 leagues, reveals Nair
The Statesman Bhubaneswar
|June 17, 2025
India batter Karun Nair, who is eyeing a return to the national Test side after an eight-year hiatus, revealed in a recent interview that he was once advised by a senior cricketer to retire and focus solely on T20 leagues for financial security.
Nair, now 33, made his Test debut in 2016 against England in Mohali and shot to fame with an unbeaten 303 in just his third Test, in Chennai.
Despite the historic triple-century, he featured in only three more Tests – against Australia in 2017, before being dropped due to a lean patch.
"I still remember a prominent Indian cricketer calling me and saying you need to retire because the money in these leagues would make me secure. It would have been easy to do but I knew that regardless of the money, I would be kicking myself for giving up that easily," Nair said in an interview with Daily Mail.
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