2024-10-03 20:15:42
Lucknow: Indian team’s star batsman Sarfaraz Khan blew away the bowlers of Rest of India in the Irani Trophy 2024. He completed his double century in 253 balls while batting destructively. On the first ball of the 127th over, he stole a single against Prasidh Krishna, took off his helmet and celebrated a double century. He has hit 23 fours and 3 sixes during his double century. On the first day of this match being played at Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ekana Cricket Stadium in Lucknow, Sarfaraz Khan came to bat when Mumbai was at 139 runs, losing 4 wickets. Was struggling. Mukesh Kumar had made the condition of Mumbai’s big guns thin with his fire-raining balls. He shocked Mumbai by dismissing Prithvi Shaw (4), Hardik Tamore (0) and Ayush Mhatre (19).
Sarfaraz Khan, who made his Test debut in the series against England, took the lead along with captain Ajinkya Rahane and took the team beyond 250 runs. However, on the second day today Rahane missed a century after scoring 97 runs, while Sarfaraz Khan continued to progress. When he completed his century in 149 balls, he increased the pace. In no time he also scored a double century.
Sarfaraz Khan became the first Mumbai batsman to score a century in Irani Trophy.
With this, he has become the first Mumbai batsman to score a double century in the Irani Trophy. No one else could do this feat before him. Before him, many greats including Sunil Gavaskar, great Sachin Tendulkar and Rohit Sharma played for Mumbai, but no one before him could do this feat. Had it not been for his innings, perhaps Mumbai would not have crossed 300 runs.
Irani Trophy: Sarfaraz Khan scored an explosive century, took leave from Team India in the middle of Bangladesh Test series
In this matter only Vijay Merchant is ahead of Sarfaraz Khan
With this, Sarfaraz Khan has maintained an average above 65. Vijay Merchant has the best average for India scoring over 4000 runs in first class cricket. His average was 81.8, while Sarfaraz Khan was scoring runs at an average of around 70.