Sarfaraz Khan missed a big chance to give a befitting reply to the selectors, playing innings of 0 and 6
Sarfaraz Khan was not selected in the Indian Test team for the West Indies tour, but even then he did not seem to learn his lesson and failed to give a befitting reply to the selectors.
Mumbai batsman Sarfaraz Khan, who has been a consistent performer in Indian domestic cricket, drew a lot of criticism when he was dropped from the Indian Test squad for the tour of the West Indies. Many former Indian cricketers called it a bad decision and Sunil Gavaskar even said that should Sarfaraz Khan stop scoring runs in domestic cricket.
After this, according to some media reports, a BCCI official had said that Sarfaraz Khan was not selected in the team because of his fitness and his bad behavior on the field. Not only this, the officer had also said that Sarfaraz Khan’s father and his coach should also take care of it. After the announcement of the Test team, Sarfaraz Khan also showed the statistics of his record on his social media account and told the selectors in gestures that excesses were being done with him.
Sarfaraz Khan flopped in the first semi-final of Duleep Trophy 2023
Well after all these incidents the Duleep Trophy 2023 started and Sarfaraz Khan was included in the West Zone team. West Zone’s first match in this tournament is against Central Zone in the first semi-final match and Sarfaraz Khan once again had a great opportunity to perform brilliantly with his bat and give a befitting reply to the Indian selectors by scoring runs, but This could not happen.
Sarfaraz Khan batted very badly against Central Zone in the first innings of this match and he could not even open his account. He faced 12 balls in the first innings and returned to the pavilion after being clean bowled by Shivam Mavi. Although his team West Zone scored 220 runs in the first innings. After this, once again in the second innings of this match, Sarfaraz had a great chance to prove himself, but he missed this second chance as well. In the second innings too, facing 27 balls, he scored just 6 runs and was caught out by Sourav Kumar.
The point to be noted here is that Sarfaraz Khan had not one but two occasions when he could have batted well, but his effort was probably not enough. On the other hand, his teammate and senior batsman Pujara could not walk in the first innings, but he scored a century in the second innings even though he was also dropped from the Test team. Now if Sarfaraz has this in his mind that he will not be selected in the team even if he scores runs, thinking like this can be absolutely fatal for him because if he does not score runs then he can be dropped from this team as well. Only he can lose his place in the Mumbai team as well. That is, in any condition, he has to keep himself strong and score runs. If he keeps scoring runs and behaves well then he might get a chance, but he will have to keep his composure at any cost and keep his emotions in check and do well on the field.
