Sunday, January 15, 2023

Justice for Sarfaraz

 If there was a more inspiring as well as depressing story, it would belong to Sarfaraz Khan. He was the only player to represent India in two successive U-19 World Cups, scoring 7 half centuries. The India U-19 coach of that time Rahul Dravid mandating that one could play just one WC at U-19 level. After his Ranji debut for Mumbai he must have felt something that forced him to move to UP. He returned back after an unsuccessful season and had to sit out the cooling period of 1 year to be eligible for Mumbai again. Since then he has scored 900 plus runs in three successive domestic seasons. His team mates from the 2016 U-19 WC team have at various times have had the selectors' nod - Prithvi, Shubhman, Pant, Washington, to name a few. And after assuring him that his time would come when he was not picked for the Bangladesh tour, the selectors have picked a T20 specialist SKY and ignored Sarfaraz again. #Justice_for_Sarfaraz



The debate around domestic cricket

For quite some time, I have been arguing in favour of India's top cricketers playing domestic cricket so that the level of competition h...