Delhi: Mumbai’s right-handed star batsman Sarfaraz Khan created a new history with his explosive batting in the match played against Punjab in the current season of Vijay Hazare Trophy. In this match, Sarfaraz not only scored runs in an aggressive manner, but also made a big record in his name by scoring the fastest half-century in the history of the tournament.

New record made with a flamboyant half-century

During the match, Sarfaraz Khan completed his half-century in just 15 balls. With this, he became the batsman who scored fifty in the fewest balls in the Vijay Hazare Trophy. His innings surprised the spectators as well as the cricket experts.

More runs in less balls, strike rate attracted attention

Sarfaraz played an explosive inning of 62 runs in just 20 balls. During this period, his strike rate remained above 310, which is considered very amazing in domestic cricket. Strength, timing and confidence were clearly visible in his batting.

The course of the match changed in one over

In the 10th over of Mumbai’s innings, Sarfaraz Khan made a tremendous attack on Punjab bowler Abhishek Sharma. In this over, 6, 4, 6, 4, 6 and 4 runs came from his bat and a total of 30 runs were scored. In the same over, he also completed his record-breaking half-century, due to which the trend of the match completely went in favor of Mumbai.

old record broken

With this explosive inning, Sarfaraz also left behind Seth’s record. Earlier, while playing for Chhattisgarh in the 2020-21 season, Atit Seth had scored a half-century in 16 balls against Baroda. Now Sarfaraz has become the batsman to score the fastest fifty in the history of Vijay Hazare Trophy.

Punjab’s innings remained limited

Talking about the match, Punjab team, batting first, was limited to 216 runs in 45.1 overs. On behalf of the team, Anmolpreet Singh and Ramandeep Singh took the score to a respectable position by scoring half-centuries, but other batsmen could not make much contribution.

Mumbai’s bowling was impressive

Musheer Khan was the most successful in bowling from Mumbai. He took 3 important wickets for 37 runs in 9.1 overs. Shivam Dubey also bowled economically and conceded only 20 runs in 7 overs and sent two batsmen to the pavilion.

Overall, this match will be long remembered for the historic and stormy innings of Sarfaraz Khan, which added a new chapter in the record book of Vijay Hazare Trophy.