Karun Nair to lead Karnataka in the Hazare knockouts

Bengaluru, February 17: Karun Nair will lead Karnataka in the Vijay Hazare Trophy quarterfinal match against Hyderabad in New Delhi from February 21 to 27.

Karun Nair will lead Karnataka in the absence of regular skipper R Vinay Kumar who suffered an elbow injury during the league phase held at the Alur grounds here.

Vinay had missed the league match against Railways as well that Karnataka won by 16 runs. Karun had led Karnataka in that match.

Karnataka squad: Karun Nair (capt), Mayank Agarwal, R Samarth, Stuart Binny, CM Gautam (w/k), Pavan Deshpande, K Gowtham, Shreyas Gopal, Prasidh Krishna, Arvind S, Ronit More, J Suchith, T Pradeep, Devdutt Padikkal, BR Sharath (w/k).