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The 2021/22 season of Ranji Trophy, India’s most popular local cricket series, has reached its final stage. The league rounds of the series, which will be held in two parts this year, were held last February and March. The best performing teams qualified for the knock-out rounds, with teams such as Tamil Nadu playing roughly out of the league round. The first leg of the knockout round of the series began on June 6. Mumbai beat Uttarakhand by 725 runs to reach the semi-finals with a world record victory.
Following that, the team is currently playing in the 2nd semi-final against Uttar Pradesh. The 24-year-old Sarfraz Khan, who plays for Mumbai, considered to be the most successful team in Ranji Trophy history, has been batting like a full-fledged batsman for the last few years and has been amassing mountain-like runs in local cricket.
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Intimidating Surprise:
Especially in this year’s Ranji Trophy, he has scored 275, 63, 48, 165, 153 half – centuries, double centuries and even 40 runs in the ongoing semi – finals. He has amassed 1664 runs in the last 14 innings and has been playing like a machine with 3 half centuries, 6 centuries, 6 150 runs and 3 double centuries. Despite his stellar performance in local cricket, the Indian selectors have not seen him.
But he has been batting brilliantly to this extent and one day he is proving himself in every match that he deserves to be given a chance in Test cricket even though he was not given a chance in T20 cricket. However, the fact that he has been consistently ignored by the Indian selectors for not giving him a chance to be selected for the team and even sit on the bench has left a lot of former Indian players dissatisfied.
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Vengsarkar Question:
Former India captain Dilip Vengsarkar has questioned the Indian selectors on how many more centuries and runs Sarfraz Khan will need to play for India in this situation. The former Indian selection committee chairman spoke about this as follows. “He must be playing for India at the moment. He scores tons of runs every time in the Ranji Trophy. But I am surprised that the selection committee is not satisfied yet. What else does he have to do to enter the Indian team? He scores 800 runs for Mumbai every year. ”
“I have been watching him since he was 12 years old. He is always playing with hunger for success. He is in good physical condition and has the ability to play long innings. He also has the rare trait of winning the competition. He has bleached against spin bowling and runs scored against crack bowling.
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So what else does he have to do to consistently blaze runs? It will be a treat to see him batting in 4th gear. ” Although he is right, the Indian Test team currently has senior players like Virat Kohli, Pujara and Rohit Sharma, but players like Vihari and Shreyas Iyer are not getting the opportunity they need.
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That’s why the Indian selectors do not want him to sit on the bench.
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