Former England cricketer Paul Collingwood was in awe of Sarfaraz Khan‘s spectacular outing on debut for India at Rajkot. He mentioned that the batter had a variety of braveness as he performed boldly in his maiden innings.
Despite the fact that Rohit Sharma and Ravindra Jadeja slammed centuries on Day 1 of the Rajkot Check, debutant Sarfaraz Khan grabbed the highlight. The Mumbai batter lastly made his debut for India and lived as much as the expectations.
Sarfaraz Khan got here to bat when India misplaced Rohit Sharma for 131 runs. The batter after that performed magnificently effectively and didn’t appear to be he was enjoying his first innings for India. The proper-hander batted positively and made certain he put strain on the opposition.
Sarfaraz Khan performed attacking cricket as effectively in his innings and in addition defended the ball fairly effectively. He was wanting set for an enormous knock however obtained run out. He ended with innings of 62 runs off 66 balls and in addition hit 9 boundaries and 1 six in his innings.
Paul Collingwood identified how Sarfaraz Khan appeared unfazed by the attacking area set by Ben Stokes. He lauded the batter for his braveness, stating that he performed sweeps effectively.
The previous England cricketer feels that Sarfaraz Khan places bowlers beneath strain and mentioned that his excessive common in first-class cricket speaks for itself. Chatting with the media, he defined:
“I believed Ben (Stokes) wished to maintain attacking fields so we may create an opportunity. And fairplay to him (Sarfaraz), he had the braveness to go excessive on a number of events. He sweeps very well and put the bowlers beneath strain.
“On debut, it takes as a variety of braveness to come back out and play like that. I suppose from his perspective, it was a disgrace to get run out the way in which he did. You may see why he has obtained a reasonably good first-class common – he seems to be an honest participant.”
The 2 guys who obtained lots of and Sarfaraz Khan on the finish performed exceptionally effectively – Paul Collingwood
Paul Collingwood additional careworn that England had the sport of their grasp within the first hour of the play. However he believes that centurions Rohit Sharma and Ravindra Jadeja together with Sarfaraz Khan performed fairly effectively. He added:
“It was an excellent begin, there was a little bit of motion round this morning, it appeared a bit cooler, a little bit of moisture on the bottom so the ball nipped round a bit. Jimmy and Woody had been distinctive. Because the ball will get softer, it’s doing much less.
“The spinners toiled away all day with little reward however if you’ve obtained high quality batters like they’ve within the India staff, they re at all times going to get a response. The 2 guys who obtained lots of and Sarfaraz on the finish performed exceptionally effectively. We threw every part at them, when it comes to plans and area positions.”
At stumps on Day 1, India had been at 326/5 with Ravindra Jadeja batting at 110.
