Sarfaraz Ahmed on his 50th test: Former Pakistani captain Sarfaraz Ahmed returned to Pakistan’s Test team after almost four years. In the first Test match being played against New Zealand, he was included in the team in place of Mohammad Rizwan. In the very first inning of this match, he scored an inning of 86 runs with the help of 9 fours. Sarfaraz is playing his 50th Test match. Regarding his return in this match, he said that I was not sure whether I would ever be able to play my 50th Test match or not.
Talking about his return, Sarfaraz said, “I was very excited when I came to know about my return. Shahid Afridi messaged to tell me and I called him back. He gave me a lot of confidence. To be honest, I was not sure whether I would ever be able to play my 50th Test match.
Sarfaraz made a strong comeback
Sarfaraz Ahmed made a strong comeback in this match and scored his 19th half-century. He announced his return by playing a brilliant inning in this match. Sarfaraz played his last Test match as captain in 2019. But now he has returned as a player in the team. Sarfaraz scored 50 and 0 runs in both the innings of his last match.
International career has been like this so far
Sarfaraz Ahmed made his debut for Pakistan in 2007 against India. So far in his Test career, he has scored 2743 runs in 87 innings of 50 matches at an average of 37.07. In this, he has scored 3 centuries and 19 half-centuries. Apart from this, in ODIs, he has scored 2315 runs at an average of 33.55 while playing 117 matches. In this, 2 centuries and 11 half-centuries have come out of his bat. At the same time, in T20 International, he has scored 818 runs in 42 innings of 61 matches at an average of 27.27. In this, he has scored three half-centuries.
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