Sarfaraz’s name is still not there. He feels he got cheated

BCCI’s national selection committee’s choice of picking red-ball specialist Suryakumar Yadav over Mumbai batter Sarfaraz Khan has caused a lot of controversies, with some previous players and fans criticising the selectors for their choice. One of the first to respond to the situation was former India opener and renowned commentator Aakash Chopra, who stated that Sarfaraz Khan would feel wrong for not getting selected for the first two Tests of the Border-Gavaskar Series despite some strong performances in local red-ball cricket. Now Sarfaraz has expressed his disappointment on not getting picked for IND vs AUS series. Sarfaraz said shared her stats on his Instagram story.

Sarfaraz had a first-class average of 80.47, which put him second among batters with at least 50 innings only to Don Bradman. In the second story, it was revealed that he played first-class cricket for Mumbai with an average of 110.73.

Sarfaraz’s name is still not there. He feels he got cheated because his name should probably have come. Bumrah is still not there. That’s another news but I am more concerned that Sarfaraz is not there,” Chopra said in his analysis of the selection on his Youtube channel.

The 25-year-old Sarfaraz is the top performer in domestic cricket in the last couple of seasons and has an average of 80.47 in his last 36 first-class matches. He has scored 3380, hitting 12 centuries and nine half-centuries. He has the highest score of 301 not out and stands second only to Sir Don Bradman (95.12) in the list of highest averages by players with 35 or more matches.