Karun Nair believes Virat Kohli can bag Orange cap this year
Delhi Daredevils batsman Karun Nair was asked to pick a batsman apart from himself who he thought would win this season’s Orange cap in the IPL. Nair picked Virat Kohli as his choice and hoped that he will soon return from his shoulder injury and win it for the second season in a row.
In a light-hearted rapid-fire session with Mark Butcher from Sky Sports, Karun was asked to pick his choice for the highest run scorer in IPL 2017, and while he acknowledged that he would like to take home the Orange cap, he picked Indian skipper Virat Kohli as his other option.
Kohli won the cap last season by scoring 973 runs in 2016 but has already missed the first few games of the ongoing season owing to a shoulder injury he suffered during the third Test against Australia in Ranchi. But the fact that the 25-year-old backed his skipper to come back from his injury and do an encore speaks volumes of the kind of player Kohli is.
The Daredevils batsman opened up about his teammates at Delhi Daredevils as well and picked Rishabh Pant as the worst roommate. Nair also picked Khalil Ahmed as the worst-dressed player in the side due to his lack of style.
While the Karnataka batsman believes that he has the best arm in the team he acknowledged that Carlos Brathwaite was the most powerful striker of the cricket ball in the Delhi side. Upon being asked which Daredevils fast bowler he least likes to face, Nair said that Delhi
Karun, who also hit a Test match triple century against England in Chennai, once again named Rishabh Pant as the one who’s always late for the team bus, while Brathwaite was also the biggest joker in the side.