Sarfaraz Khan: Mumbai's Ranji team has given many promising and talented players to Team India. Sunil Gavaskar, Sachin Tendulkar, Wasim Jaffer and Rohit Sharma are some of the prominent names. Recently another Mumbai cricketer achieved the honor of wearing the India jersey. Actually we are talking about young batsman Sarfaraz Khan.
The 26-year-old player got a chance to debut in international cricket during the Test series against England. However, for this opportunity, Sarfaraz has worked hard in domestic cricket. This right-handed batsman had to play many brilliant innings, after which he could get the ticket for the Indian team. In this article we are going to discuss about one such innings played by Sarfaraz Khan.
When Sarfaraz Khan scored a triple century
Actually this incident happened on 19 January 2020. Ranji Trophy was going on. Under this, a competition was being played between Mumbai and UP. This match is known because of the historic triple century of Sarfaraz Khan. At the age of just 21-22, the young batsman faced 391 balls and scored 301 runs. During this period his strike rate was 76.98.
Sarfaraz hit 30 fours and 8 sixes during his innings. At one time Mumbai was forced to struggle, losing 4 wickets for only 128 runs. In such a situation, Sarfaraz Khan not only got his team out of trouble by playing an excellent innings but also helped it to reach a better position.
The account of this match was something like this
If we look at the scorecard of this match, UP had decided to bat first after winning the toss. This team, which came to bat first, had scored a mountain-like score of 625 runs at the loss of 8 wickets in the first innings. From his side, Upendra Yadav scored the maximum 203 runs.
In reply, despite a poor start, Mumbai declared its innings at 688 runs after losing 7 wickets in the first innings on the strength of Sarfaraz Khan's innings. Due to the result of the match not coming within the stipulated time, the umpire with the consent of both the captains declared the match a draw.
