Indian batter Karun Nair has opened up on his non-selection in the national team for the upcoming 2025 Champions Trophy. He made headlines after a great 2024-25 Vijay Hazare Trophy campaign for Vidarbha, smashing 779 runs in eight innings at an average of 389.50 as well. With five tons in eight innings, Karun Nair became a choice for the Indian middle order, though the selection committee didn’t pick him.

However, Nair recently said that representing the national team is a great motivational tool for performing well in the domestic circuit as well.

“Obviously, the possibility of an India comeback has to be on your mind. If you want to play for the country, you have to keep dreaming. There are these thoughts and dreams in the head but that’s just motivation,” Nair said in an interview with the Hindustan Times. “The mindset comes from the hunger to keep getting better every single day when I go out to play. To not be happy with what you’ve done in the past to keep looking forward to doing better in the future,” he further added.

He broke a few records during his stunning campaign. Following his century against Uttar Pradesh, he broke the record for most runs in
List-A cricket without being dismissed as well, overtaking James Franklin as well.

“The games were coming so thick and fast that I didn’t get too much time to think about all these things. But I would be lying if I said it didn’t cross my mind. It did,” Nair said in the same interview.“Whenever I got a hundred, I used to think ‘Oh my God, what’s happening!?’ It was crazy, almost surreal. Something I have not experienced before but something that I’ll keep very close to myself. I want to keep repeating that feeling over and over again.”