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Following an impressive domestic cricket performance Karun Nair was picked in the squad for the Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy. With prior experience of playing of playing for the national side Nair was looking forward to a good series. However he ended up having a below-par series scoring only 205 runs in four Test match at an average of 25.62. Former India cricketer Irfan Pathan while rating the players based on their performance in the series gave Nair a rating of just four. Irfan Pathan rates Nairs performance after England tour “Karun Nair gets four out of ten. Why? He didn’t look particularly poor throughout the series. He kept getting starts consistently but managed only one half-century. He got plenty of opportunities. Cricket definitely gave him a second chance but he couldn’t capitalise on it the way he should have. Especially in the Lord’s Test he had a real chance to win the match for India but couldn’t do it” said Pathan speaking on his YouTube channel. “Other than that it often seemed like he was playing well building up nicely and then suddenly he’d play a loose shot and get out. At the Oval when the bouncer was used against him he looked a bit shaken and seemed more unsettled and uncomfortable. So he gets four points” Nair added. From the first Test to the last match at the Oval it was always between Nair and Sai Sudharsan. Due to the combination only one of them could have been included in the squad however following Leeds the team has chosen to play with both once more. Irfan Pathan rated Sudharsan higher than Nair While rating Sudharsan Pathan gave him five Sai Sudharsan gets five out of ten. He came across as a player who with a bit of work on a few aspects clearly has a lot of cricketing potential. He could have made better use of the opportunities he got but wasn’t quite able to do so. However I do believe that if he had played all the matches things might have turned out differently but it’s not that easy. “When you go overseas you get a chance your team loses then you get dropped and later you’re brought back. Even selecting a playing XI is a tough job. But as a player he’ll definitely feel that if he gets regular opportunities going forward he can achieve a lot. I’ve always liked left-handed batters at the top of the order and even in the last match when he got a chance he scored a half-century and batted well. He has the ability to do well. That’s why he gets five out of ten” he added.