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“Dream touch in Ranji Trophy continues for Sarfaraz Khan” – Twitter reacts as Sarfaraz Khan scores his 12th century from 50 innings

by
Rohit Sarkar
January 5, 2023

Mumbai cricketer Sarfaraz Khan has been in surreal form in the Ranji Trophy tournament. The right-handed batsman continued his dream touch in the tournament by smashing his 12th century during the ongoing match against Tamil Nadu at Brabourne Stadium, Mumbai.

The 25-year-old has time and again made a bold statement to the Indian selectors by chipping in with a series of consistent scores for Mumbai in domestic cricket. However, he is yet to receive a call-up from the national cricket team.

The right-handed batter dominated the bowling attack by smacking as many as 19 boundaries and a six. He scored his twelfth century from 50 innings in first-class cricket. The Mumbai cricket team largely benefitted from his work rate in the first innings.

Sarfaraz Khan scores his 12th century from 50 innings

Tanush Kotian was the other player who contributed to the team in the lower order as he chipped in with 71 runs including eight fours and a six. On the other hand, Mohit Avasthi scored 69 runs including nine fours and a six.

Sarfaraz Khan was the pick of the batters for the Mumbai cricket team as he scored 162 runs to his name. In the end, Mumbai posted a formidable total of 481 at the expense of all the ten wickets in the first innings.

On the other side of the coin, Tamil Nadu played 16 overs before the second day’s play came to a close. They posted 62/1 at end of Day 2. Tushar Deshpande made an early breakthrough for Mumbai as he got rid of dangerous wicketkeeper-batsman N Nagadeesan for 27 (4 fours).

Sai Sudharsan and Baba Aparajith are batting on 16 and 18 respectively as Tamil Nadu trail by 275 runs. Sarfaraz Khan’s stupendous knock was the talking point of the game. He has scored 3337 runs at a staggering batting average in excess of 71 in first-class cricket. Apart from twelve centuries, he has also scored nine fifties to his name.

Dream touch in Ranji Trophy continues for Sarfaraz Khan

— saistunz (@saistunz10) January 4, 2023

How about giving him a chance in BGT as Pant is out now?🤔 I know we have KS Bharat before him but why not keep him in the squad just to give him some assurance?

— Khush Thakkar (@Khush_Thakkar12) January 4, 2023

He Deserves A Call Up For Indian Test Team 😊

— Md Shahid (@MdShahid75) January 4, 2023

Yet he is not getting selected in the Test squad.

— Nirmal Jyothi (@majornirmal) January 4, 2023

But still @BCCI ignore him

Sarfaraz deserve one chance 🇮🇳.

— Shamsi (MSH) ❤ (@ShamsiHaidri18) January 4, 2023

He should be drafted into Test team. Don’t kill talents. Similarly SRK should be pullled into T20 as finisher.

— MaskUrself&SaveWorld (@KAP_Anand) January 4, 2023

It’s about time to blood him in the Test team!… or all that recent talk of emerging players need to bide their time in domestic would make no sense…unless that applies to white ball cric only🧐

— Abhi (@AbBhagya) January 4, 2023