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#3 Sunil Gavaskar "furious" at Karun Nair's exclusion from the squad for fifth Test

Karun Nair after his glittering 300 against Australia

The fifth Test of the England-India series is up and running at the Oval, and India has come up with an unchanged XI except for Hardik and Ashwin, with Hanuma Vihari making his debut and Jadeja replacing injured Ashwin. And the rest of the squad remains the same from the previous games in the series.

The squad selection has apparently not gone well with Sunil Gavaskar, who slammed the management for forgetting Karun Nair. There was a call to include him in the previous game as well, but that did not happen, either.

In the pre-match special telecast by SPN Sports India, he said: "He is not your favorite player. The selectors seem to have brought him. Don't think the team management likes him. Karun Nair has every right to ask the team management why he is not in the team. You didn't pick an extra specialist batsman earlier, but now that you have, Karun Nair deserves an answer."

Apart from Kohli, Rahane or Pujara, no other batsman made a real impact in the series. And for Nair, he has a 300 from the only seven innings which he has played in Tests so far - enough evidence to say he hasn't been tested enough yet.