Sarfaraz Khan dropped from trial test tour team:

Delhi: Before choosing the team for the Test series in England, Ajit Agarkar’s selection committee knew that the biggest challenge before them is to fulfill the lack of experience in the team. After all, if two players with 190 Test experience retires, then the effect will come. Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli retired, while Cheteshwar Pujara and Azinkya Rahane were clearly visible in the top order. The most special change in this equation was that Sarfaraz Khan out and Karun Nair in.

According to what Ajit Agarkar told, there was a fight between Sarfaraz and Karun Nair for a place in the team and Karun Nair’s experience was overshadowed by Sarfaraz. In the last two-three years, Karun Nair has returned to the Test team on the basis of consistent performance in domestic cricket, so what Sarfaraz, playing the average record of Don Bradman’s record in domestic cricket for more years (this time 65.61), did Sarfaraz do wrong?

What did Sarfaraz do wrong?

The issue of discussion here is not criticized by the selection of Karun Nair or the changed thinking about him (from which he could return to the Test team), it is to think that Sarfaraz did so wrong that despite playing in the Test Middle Order at one time he fell behind in the claim. Well, due to not being involved in IPL 2025, he remained less in the news these days, but reduced the weight of about 10 kg in the preparation of England Tour. Because of his heavy body, those who were raising the issue of his fitness- this was the answer for him. Worked hard on his fitness in the off season.

According to Agarkar, his committee was forced to ‘out’ Sarfaraz in the absence of Virat Kohli in the middle order of Virat Kohli. He said, “Sometimes good decisions have to be made. Sarfaraz first scored 100 in the Test (against New Zealand) and then did not score like that. Karun scored a lot of runs at the domestic level, played Test cricket, played county cricket. We felt that his experience could help.”

Many reasons for Sarfaraz being out

So in this way Sarfaraz Khan was out without trial from the Test team. Many factor against him were in discussion such as not played high cricket since November, due to injury, he did not participate in the second round of Ranji Trophy and also that he did not fit in Gautam Gambhir’s scheme. In this way, Sarfaraz did not benefit the place in the Team India team last year due to many years of hard work in domestic cricket.

In the media, this discussion with team sources was for the last few months that he believes that Sarfaraz is one of the best talent middle order batsmen in India, but perhaps the current team management (and the thinking of selectors accordingly) does not trust their technology and perhaps even. Performance instability made his work easier. After 150 precious 150 against New Zealand, scored just 21 runs in 4 innings in the next matches.

Border-Gavaskar Trophy not found batting

He was an ‘automatic selection’ till the Border-Gavaskar Trophy, but once reached Australia, the team management did not trust his technology on bounced pitches. During the series, even when the team stuck in the crisis of need, Sarfaraz was banned, Devdutt Padikkal and Dhruv Jurlel. This factor caused a major loss to Sarfaraz’s reputation. The management told that there is not much trust in his game in the right circumstances for fast bowling outside India. During the post -mortem of the series, Gambhir’s Sarfaraz accused of leaking news of the dressing room (however, it has not been proved that Gambhir is right and the BCCI did not take any action on it) also did not do good for Sarfaraz.

India A performance can return

Sarfaraz returned from Australia and could not show anything with the bat. Ranji Trophy could not play in the second round due to injury if he did not play in the first round of the 2024-25 season. Now only one way is left. Since the India A team playing in England, score against England Lions in matches and show that you can score runs on Duke ball on English pitches. Nobody knows when it becomes a place in the team playing in the Test tour of England and then the same score will play a special role in getting Sarfaraz back to the place. For the batting selectors who have chosen, the match during the entire series is not easy.

Sarfaraz’s record is better than veterans

A record must be kept in mind. Currently, Sarfaraz’s record is 371 runs in 11 innings of 6 Tests at 37.10 and out of India’s recent years Test cricketers, MS Dhoni (365), Shubman Gill (363), Sachin Tendulkar (342), Yuvraj Singh (314), Wasim Jafar (256), Virat Kohli (234) and VVS Lakshmana (214) also scored less. Were. Till the team management and captain will show confidence in the player’s talent, this series of out will continue without trial.

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