These days there is a new term doing the rounds in the cricket circuit:
sarfarazek, it doesn’t come off easily
bradmanesque does, but
sarfaraz khan will take. After all, his job, as his father Naushad Khan put it, is “to keep scoring runs, for any team, all the time”. Suffice to say, since his second arrival, he has been doing it better than most other guys in first-class cricket.
The ‘A’ tour of Bangladesh didn’t go well for him, but Sarfaraz has since scored three hundreds in seven Ranji Trophy innings.
928 runs in nine innings and on 154.66
982 runs in nine innings at 122.75 in the last two Ranji seasons. In January 2020, seven centuries were scored including a triple century against Uttar Pradesh. A shift of the latest big handjob
125 in 155 ballsA faltering Mumbai batting effort came in Delhi yesterday, when the next best score was Prithvi Shaw’s 40, and the team’s total was just 293.
first grade average
80.47 in 36 matches (Before the latest century) was always going to bring Don Bradman into the limelight, and it did on Tuesday after the game. “It makes me happy to have been close to him [Bradman’s] record over the last three seasons,” he said. “It won’t always be the same, but I’m happy to have him around now.” For the record, while Bradman averaged 99.94 in Tests, his first-class average was marginally lower, on 95.14.
With numbers like these, it is understandable that there is a lot of competition to give him a chance at the Test level. Lately, whenever an Indian Test squad has been announced, and he hasn’t made it, eyebrows have been raised. On January 13, when the team
First two Tests against Australia When the name was given, the general perception was: what else does Sarfaraz need to do? It crossed his mind as well.
“my father came [to Delhi] a few days back, and I trained with him for two days in Ghaziabad [near Delhi] before the game. he knew i was upset [at not being selected]’ Sarfaraz said, ‘So he said,’ Our job is to keep scoring runs, for any team, all the time. Since I was a kid, whenever I’m a little confused, or things aren’t right, that’s what he does, he motivates me and gives me confidence, and prepares me mentally.”
Sarfaraz’s fitness could be a reason for his frequent omission from the Test team. At the same time, it is also true that he has impressive numbers in Ranji Trophy and first-class cricket in general, but he hasn’t always shone when given the opportunity at India A level. So far, Sarfaraz has scored only 205 runs in six ‘A’ matches at an average of 34.16. Just before the start of the Ranji season, he scored 21 and 0 in his two innings on the tour of Bangladesh.
When asked about the ‘A’ number, he said, ‘A person cannot be successful all the time.’ “When I played my first match for India A, I scored
71 not out [in Bloemfontein], The rest of the players got out, otherwise I could have scored a century. But yes, I got out cheaply a few times. Then in the series against New Zealand A, I got out early once and scored 60 in the second innings.
“There have been times when lower-order batsmen got out early, and I didn’t get the opportunity to score much. I will keep trying to improve my numbers for India A as well.”
Regarding his fitness, Sarfaraz said, “Delhi Capitals in December last year. [his IPL team] Had a 14-day fitness camp, so their players are ready for the season. So I have been working on it since then, working on making sure that my fitness is up to par. Keeping in mind the next IPL, the focus of the Delhi Capitals team is on the fitness of the players, especially me.”
