Impressed together with his optimistic begin to life in Test cricket, former India captain Sourav Ganguly has stated Sarfaraz Khan‘s recreation is extra suited to red-ball cricket. Sarfaraz, who made his debut within the third Test towards England in Rajkot, scored half-centuries in each innings. He grew to become solely the fourth India batter to attain twin half-centuries in his Test debut after Sunil Gavaskar, Dilawar Hussain and Shreyas Iyer. The batter scored a truck load of runs within the home cricket for Mumbai, particularly the Ranji Trohpy.

Ganguly was delighted to see Sarfaraz being rewarded for his years of toil in India’s premiere First Class competitors.

“Sarfaraz is more of a five-day player. His game is more suited for that. The amount of runs he scored in domestic cricket is phenomenal. And as they say if you score runs in first class cricket it doesn’t go to waste and that’s what happened to Sarfaraz,” Ganguly instructed RevSportz.

Sarfaraz has scored 4056 runs in 47 FC matches at a median of 68.74 whereas smashing 14 a whole bunch and 13 half-centuries.

In the Rajkot Test, Sarafarz scored 62 runs within the first innings earlier than being run-out following a mix-up with centurion Ravindra Jadeja. He then adopted it up with a 68 within the second innings to assist India win the match.

While the batter on managed 14 runs within the 4th Test, he could have an opportunity to finish the sequence on a excessive, with India already main 3-1 with one recreation left to play.

The fifth and closing Test begins March 7 in Dharamsala, with India set to welcome star pacer Jasprit Bumrah, who was rested within the earlier Test, which India received by 5 wickets in Ranchi.

KL Rahul will miss out once more after he was compelled out of the earlier three resulting from a quad harm he picked up within the opener.

India squad: Rohit Sharma (capt), Jasprit Bumrah (vice-capt), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Shubman Gill, Rajat Patidar, Sarfaraz Khan, Dhruv Jurel (wk), KS Bharat (wk), Devdutt Padikkal, Ravichandran Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohammed Siraj, Mukesh Kumar, Akash Deep.

(With AFP Inputs)