Despite not getting a place in the Indian team, Sarfaraz Khan has continued to impress with the batting in the Ranji season.
Sarfaraz Khan, who is playing in the Ranji series for the Mumbai team, has scored 998 runs with an average of 154.66 in the last 2019-20 Ranji season, 982 runs with an average of 122.75 in the 2021-22 Ranji season, and 801 runs with an average of 89 in the current season. That means his average is second only to that of cricket legend Don Bradman.
Sarfaraz Khan has so far scored over 3400 runs in 53 innings in 37 first-class matches. In that, he has scored a total of 13 centuries and 9 fifties. This includes a third. Subsequently, it was talked about last year that he will be included in the Test series.
In particular, there were reports that he will be included in the Bangladesh Test series held at the end of last year. But, he was not selected. After that, he was expected to feature at least in the 4-Test Border-Gavaskar Trophy between India and Australia starting next month. But his name was not mentioned in that either.
In this regard, Sarfaraz Khane had painfully informed that he had met the selection committee and that they were going to select him soon, but nothing as expected happened. Former Indian players Irfan Pathan and Akash Chopra had criticized the selectors for not selecting him.
In this situation, Sarfaraz Khan, who is determined that “Indian team management and selectors should never ignore him” has scored another century and made himself look back. Batting first in the ongoing Ranji series against Delhi, the Mumbai team was bowled out for 66 runs for the loss of 4 wickets.
Sarfaraz Khan, who came into the field at that time, scored 125 runs off 135 balls and allowed Mumbai to score 293 runs. This was his 13th century in a Ranji tournament. Notably, he has scored 10 centuries and 5 fifties in his last 25 innings in the Ranji series. This is why former cricketers are insisting that he should be included in the Test series.