Quite a few Indian cricketers like off-spinner R Ashwin, wicketkeeper-batsman Sanju Samson and Shreyas Iyer, besides English cricketer Sam Billings congratulated Nair.

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Karun Nair made his first-class debut in Ranji Trophy when he played for Karnataka in 2013-14. Karun Nair went on to score 3 consecutive hundreds in the final league as well as knockout matches. When Karnataka won the Ranji title in 2014-15, Karun Nair had scored a total of 709 runs in the 10 matches that he played.

Karun Nair is the first batsman to score a triple hundred in a Ranji Trophy final match ever since 1946-47. Nair made his international debut in June 2016 against Zimbabwe.

Nair has played 2 ODIs and scored 46 runs and had played 6 test matches with 374 runs to his name.

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