Just before the Indian Test batsman Karun Nair has been dropped out from the Test squad for the upcoming home two-match Test series against Windies, he has claimed that he had no conversations with the selectors and the team management about his cricket.

The 26-year-old right-handed batsman has played six Tests since his international cricket debut in June 2016 and has scored 374 runs with the average of 62.33. In his third Test, Nair hit a triple-century (303*) against England in Chennai and became the only second Indian batsman to score the triple hundred in a Test innings (after Virender Sehwag who did this twice).

Since then, Nair has played three more Tests where he never reached the 30-run mark. In fact, the 303 not out innings is the only 30+ innings in his Test career. Nair has played his last Test against Australia at Dharamsala in March 2017. He hasn’t played yet a single Test outside the home soil.

Nair travelled with the Indian Test cricket team in the recent England tour, but he wasn’t selected into the playing XI in any of five Tests in that tour while the new batsman Hanuma Vihari made a surprise debut in the international cricket during the last Test of the series who even not in the Indian squad for the first three Tests of that England tour.

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In a recent interview with Cricbuzz, when Nair was asked about his condition during the England tour, he said, “We [Nair, the selectors and the team management] haven’t had any conversations. Nothing at all. It is difficult, but I haven’t gone forth and asked anything, but yeah, we haven’t had any conversation.”

While Nair spent most of the times in the national squad with the trainer Shanker Basu and the batting coach Sanjay Bangar, Basu remarked him as the fittest person in the team at present.

Nair told about that, “I’ve been spending a lot of time with [Shanker] Basu sir, our trainer, and Sanjay Bangar sir as well, our batting coach. Obviously a lot of throwdowns and a lot of net sessions. But mainly I have been spending time with Basu sir. According to him, I am the fittest person in the team right now. I am very proud of that and I just want to keep improving on that.”

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Nair has felt disappointed with the overall situation. However, he is still hoping to return in the national squad and also believes that his bat will talk for him.

Nair said, “It is difficult, naturally for a human being, it’s difficult to handle that situation, or to take that as a human being. But the team management and everyone else involved make a decision, and me as a player has to accept it. There’s nothing else I can do. Whenever I get an opportunity, I will let the bat do the talking. I can’t be saying anything else on that.”