IND vs ENG, 5th Test: Karun Nair Receives 'Massive Respect' From Fans For Avoiding Fourth Run After Chris Woakes' Injury On Day 1

Karun Nair received praise on social media for not taking the fourth run when England pacer Chris Woakes injured his shoulder. The incident happened when Nair, who was batting alongside Washington Sundar, drove Jamie Overton's delivery towards the boundary. Woakes tumbled over the rope and hurt himself while trying to save a boundary.

While the batters ran three runs, Nair noticed Woakes in pain and lying on the ground beyond the boundary. He stopped his partner from coming through for a fourth despite extra runs on offer.

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Fans praise Karun Nair for his sportmanship

Massive respect to Karun Nair He could’ve easily run four, but chose to stop when he saw Woakes down in pain. A true act of sportsmanship cricket at its classiest pic.twitter.com/NTcQgbZ4lY

— Abhinav prakash (AP12) (@imabhi0012) July 31, 2025

Good on Karun Nair that he did not run 4th run when he saw Woakes going down holding the shoulder, great sportmenship

— Bhumish Patel (@bhumish18) July 31, 2025

Karun Nair and Wahington Sundar didn't run the 4th run as soon as Woakes went down and injured himself.

Spirit of the game

— Rahul. (@meri_mrziii) July 31, 2025

Karun Nair's redemption

Karun Nair ended his 3147-day wait to score half century for 2nd Time In Tests. This was his first half-century since 2016. Nair came out to bat at No. 5 for India, and scored his half century in 89 balls. Nair reached the 50-run mark by taking two runs on the first ball of the 62nd over of India’s innings, bowled by Jacob Bethell.

Nair’s last half-century for India in Tests was also against England in the match played at the MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai from December 16 to 20 in 2016. Karun scored an unbeaten 303 runs from 381 balls as a No. 5 batter.

5⃣0⃣ for Karun Nair!

A solid knock from the #TeamIndia right-handed batter!

Updates ▶️ https://t.co/Tc2xpWNayE#ENGvIND | @karun126 pic.twitter.com/3CFUSy6xfy

— BCCI (@BCCI) July 31, 2025

Nair has added 51 runs from 87 balls for the seventh wicket with Washington Sundar (19 runs from 45 balls) so far as India finished Day 1 at 204/6.

Team India made four changes to their playing XI for the final Test with Jasprit Bumrah, Rishabh Pant, Anshul Kamboj and Shardul Thakur missing out while Prasidh Krishna, Dhruv Jurel, Akash Deep and Karun Nair making it to the XI.

For England Gus Atkinson and Josh Tongue led the charge, picking up two wickets apiece, while Woakes dismissed KL Rahul before getting injured

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