India cricketer Karun Nair shared the news of engagement on social media
Karun Nair with girlfriend Sanya
Indian cricketer Karun Nair, got engaged to his longtime girlfriend Sanya Tankariwala recently.
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The Karnataka batsman, who scored 303 not out against England in 2016 to become only the second Indian after Virender Sehwag to score a triple-century in Test cricket, took to Instagram to announce his engagement. He posted this picture with his partner by his side and captioned it, "She said YES."
Quite a few Indian cricketers like off-spinner R Ashwin, wicketkeeper-batsman Sanju Samson and Shreyas Iyer, besides English cricketer Sam Billings congratulated Nair.
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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