Sarfaraz Khan has utterly taken over India’s home cricket, delivering one explosive batting efficiency after one other and giving bowlers no reply regardless of the format. Sarfaraz Khan was unstoppable throughout Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy 2025.
Sarfaraz Khan dominates home cricket with relentless run-fest
The Mumbai batsman scored an unbeaten hundred in simply 47 balls within the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy 2025, adopted by a fast rise in scores with 52 not out in 40 balls, 64 in 25 balls, after which a panoramic 73 in simply 22 balls within the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy 2025, displaying energy, management and fearless intent in each innings.
Now, Sarfaraz’s dominance continued within the ongoing Vijay Hazare Trophy 2025-26, the place he displayed his harmful energy as nicely. He began the match with a stable 55 off 49 balls, however then went on to play an astonishing knock of 157 runs off simply 75 balls, adopted by much more brutal knocks.
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On Thursday, January 8, Sarfaraz was in beast mode with a dominant half-century and 15 balls in opposition to Punjab in Jaipur within the seventh spherical of the continued Vijay Hazare Trophy. Nonetheless, though Mumbai narrowly misplaced by only one run, their explosive batsmen made historical past.
Sarfaraz Khan goes berserk, Punjab assault shocked
When Mumbai had been chasing 217 in opposition to Punjab, Sarfaraz, the No. 3 batsman, reduce into the assault and scored runs at a ridiculous strike fee of 310. Two overs summed up his insane kind.
The Mumbai batsman hit laborious in opposition to Abhishek Sharma, smashing three sixes and three boundaries to attain 30 runs, and in addition bowled left-arm spinner Harpreet Brar for 19 runs off 5 balls, leaving the Punjab assault speechless within the match in opposition to VHT in Jaipur.
Sarfaraz’s fiery knock ended with 62 off simply 20 deliveries when he was trapped lbw by Mayank Markande after smashing seven boundaries and 5 sixes. It proved that he’s now dominating the assault and setting new requirements in home cricket.
Sarfaraz Khan breaks Record A file with explosive 15-ball fifty
In the meantime, Sarfaraz reached his half-century in simply 15 deliveries in opposition to Punjab, scoring an explosive 62 runs off simply 20 balls. With this unbelievable effort, the Indian batsman broke the file for quickest 50 runs within the historical past of the Vijay Hazare Trophy.
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This knock additionally helped him obtain one other uncommon feat in Record A cricket. Sarfaraz at the moment holds the file for the quickest Indian batsman to attain 50 runs in Record A cricket. He broke the joint file of 16 balls, which was shared by Abhijit Kale of Maharashtra, who had set it in opposition to Baroda in 1995, and Baroda all-rounder Atit Sheth, who achieved the identical feat in opposition to Chhattisgarh in 2021.
General, Sarfaraz’s 15-ball 50 is recorded because the fourth-fastest 50 in Record A cricket. The file for quickest half-century in Record A cricket is held by Sri Lanka’s Kaushalya Weeraratne, who reached fifty in simply 12 balls in a home match within the 2005-06 season.
Notably, Safaraz is at the moment Mumbai’s prime run-scorer within the ongoing Vijay Hazare Trophy 2025-26 with 303 runs in six innings at a mean of 75.75 and a strike fee of 190.56.
