Sarfaraz Khan
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The style of Sarfaraz Khan, who scored a half-century in his first innings of the debut Test match, has been explosive from the beginning. Sarfaraz played a brilliant inning in the Ranji Trophy match played nine years ago in Moradabad. He had scored 155 runs in 164 balls. Then for the first time, Sarfaraz had knocked in the minds of the selectors with his batting prowess.
The matter is of October 2015. At that time a Ranji Trophy match was organized on the grounds of Tirthankar Mahavir University. The match was played between the teams of UP and Madhya Pradesh. Sarfaraz Khan left the Mumbai team and was playing Ranji for Uttar Pradesh.
After the fall of three wickets, right-handed fast batsman Sarfaraz Khan came on the pitch and played fast from the beginning. He had beaten the bowlers of Madhya Pradesh a lot. Had completed half century and century by hitting fours.
In this match, when he completed 150 runs by hitting 15 fours and four sky-high sixes, the entire ground echoed with applause to greet the young batsman. Sarfaraz returned to the pavilion after scoring 155 runs. With the help of his innings, UP had scored a huge score of 686 runs. Before him, Almas Shaukat had given a strong start to the team by playing an inning of 128 runs.
Praveen Kumar was the captain of UP team
During the match at TMU, many stalwarts were included in the teams of UP and MP. Among them, former Indian fast bowler Praveen Kumar was captaining the team. Spinner Piyush Chawla and chinaman Kuldeep Yadav were also there. Only two bowlers were successful in the match.
Ankit Rajput took four wickets for UP, while Kuldeep took three wickets. Mohammad Saif had played an inning of 198 runs. While wicket-keeper batsman Naman Ojha was part of the Madhya Pradesh team. He had played an inning of 88 runs.