Vishwas Puri
Indian Test cricketer Sarfaraz Khan, who was earlier released by the Indian team. ahead of the second test match against Bangladesh in order to make him available for the Irani Cup, has now outplayed his opponent’s rest of the India team by scoring a double century on day 2 of the Irani Cup.
In the morning, Ajinkya Rahane, who was nearing his century, wasn’t lucky enough to take his individual score to 100 and lost his wicket to Yash Dayal at a score of 97 while attempting to evade a bouncer. Shreyas Iyer also played a decent innings of 57 runs in 84 balls. Whereas the bowling all-rounder Tanush Kotian impressed with his knock of 64 runs.
Sarfaraz Khan, who came to bat at number six, scored a blazing double century. He is known for playing well against spin bowlers, but today he smashed both spinners and pacers at an equal rate. Sarfaraz already completed his 50 at the end of day 1 and completed his century in the early morning in just 149 balls. Even after completing his hundred Sarfaraz kept striking the bowlers at a good strike rate and completed his 200 in 253 balls.
All these knocks helped the Mumbai team go from 37-3 to crossing 500 runs. At the end of the day, the Mumbai team is at a score of 536 runs at a loss of nine wickets, and Sarfaraz Khan is still on the crease with unbeaten 221 runs.
Mukesh Kumar, who bagged the first 3 wickets of the innings on day 1, could only pick a single wicket in day 2 but is still the leading wicket taker of the innings with 4 wickets in hand, followed by Yash Dayal and Prasidh Krishna with 2 wickets each. Saransh Jain also succeeded in picking up one wicket.
The Mumbai team has already put a giant score on the board, and the Rest of India team will have to play sensationally in order to win the match. In the first innings of ROI, all eyes will be on the skipper of the team, Ruturaj Gaikwad, to contribute not just with his captaincy, but with his batting too.
