Sarfaraz Khan is a talented India Under-19 cricketer from Maharashtra. He is rated to be one of the best all-rounders among the juniors by the experts of the game.
Sarfaraz Khan scored a 66-ball 100 against South Africa in the quadrangular series last year in Visakhapatnam.
The first real display of Sarfaraz’s talent came when he scored a record 439 in his maiden Harris Shield (inter-school tournament) game in 2009. There was no looking back from there for this right-hand batsman who has now also evolved into a reliable leg-spinner. There have been setbacks, though.
The Mumbai Cricket Association suspended him on charges of fudging his age, before eventually accepting the results of an advanced test. Just as he was recovering from the blow and getting back into run-scoring mode, the MCA’s indoor academy dismissed him from a camp on “disciplinary grounds”.
“That was the toughest phase for us,” Naushad, 43, says. “There was a time when the constant criticism started getting to him and the kid just wanted to give up. It was then that I had to constantly remind him of our biggest goal: to play international cricket. It took him time to realise it but once he did, he knew that such small battles will have to be overcome for achieving the real thing.”
Once Sarfaraz became “mentally strong”, he took his game to the next level and started performing consistently in the big boys’ league. An exceptional season for Mumbai U-19 team helped him earn a call-up for the India U-19 quadrangular series in Visakhapatnam last year. Sarfaraz showed his mettle there by scoring a match-winning 66-ball 101 while chasing a target of 292 against South Africa. From then on he has been a regular in all the U-19 team’s matches and camps leading into the World Cup.
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