Mumbai’s Sarfaraz Khan smashed his maiden triple century to become only 7th Mumbai batsman to join this prestigious club. Also, he single-handedly took Mumbai to get the first innings lead and helped gain 3 points that were looking very unlikely when he walked in at the score of 128/4.
300+ #RanjiTrophy scores for Mumbai…
8th triple century by seven batsmen
377 – S Manjrekar in 1991
359*- V Merchant in 1943
340 – S Gavaskar in 1982
323 – A Wadekar in 1967
314*- W Jaffer in 1996
309*- R Sharma in 2009
301 – W Jaffer in 2009
300*- Sarfaraz Khan – today— Mohandas Menon (@mohanstatsman) January 22, 2020
So far this season hasn’t been great for Mumbai. They lost two consecutive matches against Railways and Karnataka and once Uttar Pradesh posted the massive total of 625/8, nobody gave them a chance to cross that mark. But Sarfaraz had some other ideas who first added 210 runs for 5th wicket with Siddhesh Lad (98), then another big partnership with Aditya Tare made them believe to the eye for a first-innings lead.
Despite all his issues outside the field, you could see why every cricket pundit gets excited watching Sarfaraz bat. It was innings with strokes all around the ground- square cuts, ramp overslips, cover drives, down the ground drive against pacer for six, sweeps, reverse sweeps.
And guess what? how did he complete his triple century? It was a proper flashback of Virender Sehwag- Saqlain Mushtaq moment at Multan when he deposited Rinku Singh over deep mid-wicket to complete the milestone.
The celebration tells us what it meant to him. Sarfaraz is back so is Mumbai. For his unbeaten knock of 301, he faced 391 deliveries and smashed 30 fours and 8 sixes.
These 3 points kept Mumbai alive in the season. Now they have 12 points in 5 matches and their remaining fixtures are up against Himachal Pradesh, Saurashtra, and Madhya Pradesh.
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