Ajinkya Rahane is Virat Kohli’s choice over Karun Nair for India vs Bangladesh

Karun Nair may have scored a triple hundred in the last Test match Indian cricket team played, but captain Virat Kohli made it clear that comeback man Ajinkya Rahane will get the preference.

Rahane had missed the last two England Tests due to a finger injury and is now fit to take the field.

“Karun did well but we cannot ignore what Jinx (Ajinkya Rahane) has done over the



past two years. He has put in lots of hard work and has performed,” said Kohli a day before India play Bangladesh in the one-off Test at the Rajiv Gandhu Stadium at Uppal.

Kohli says the team management’s focus is to back players making a comeback from injury. “The big challenge,” he says, is to “ensure that we back players making a comeback and keep the youngsters in the squad and groom them.”