Sarfaraz Khan

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Biography

Sarfaraz Naushad Khan is an Indian cricketer who plays for the Indian national team in Test cricket matches. He currently plays for Mumbai in domestic cricket and played for the Delhi Capitals, Punjab Kings, and Royal Challengers Bangalore in the Indian Premier League. Sarfaraz represented India at the ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup in 2014 and 2016. He is an aggressive right-handed batsman, a part-time spinner, and an occasional wicketkeeper.

Age

Sarfaraz was born on October 22, 1997 and was raised in the suburbs of Mumbai. He is 25 years old as of 2024. His zodiac sign is Libra.

Family and Early Life

Sarfaraz was born and raised in the suburbs of Mumbai. His family is from Azamgarh, Uttar Pradesh. He spent the majority of his childhood in Azad Maidan. Naushad Khan, his father and coach, mentored young cricketers like Iqbal Abdulla and Kamran Khan. His coaching began at a young age, when his father discovered his ability to time the ball well. On August 6, 2023, Sarfaraz Khan married Romana Zahoor, who is from the Shopian District of Jammu and Kashmir.

Domestic Career

Sarfaraz rose to fame after breaking Sachin Tendulkar's Harris Shield record of 439 runs off 421 balls, which he had set in 1988. It was his first Harris Shield game in 2009, when he was only 12 years old. He was playing for his school, Rizvi Springfield. The innings featured 56 fours and 12 sixes. He soon began playing for the Mumbai Under-19 team, and his performance there led to selection for the Indian Under-19 team.

In 2013, he hit 66 balls for 101 runs, including 17 fours and a six, to win the match against South Africa Under 19. 
Sarfaraz represented India in two Under-19 World Cups (2014, 2016). The 2014 Under-19 World Cup featured 16 teams competing in a round-robin format, with India finishing fifth. He scored 211 runs in six games, averaging 70.33; two innings were fifties, and he finished with a strike rate of 105.5. Following this performance, IPL franchise Royal Challengers Bangalore acquired him for $5 million for the 2015 season. India finished second in the 2016 Under-19 World Cup in Bangladesh. Sarfaraz finished as the tournament's second highest run scorer. He scored 355 runs in six innings, including five scores of more than 50, for an average of 71. At the Under-19 level, he holds the record for the most fifties in World Cups (7 across two World Cups).

Sarfaraz Khan scored his second consecutive hundred, this time an unbeaten 200-plus score, in the Ranji Trophy Round 2 at the Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association Stadium.

Sarfaraz began his Ranji career with Mumbai, playing against Bengal in 2014. He began playing for Uttar Pradesh in the 2015–2016 season. By September 2019, he had played 11 first-class matches and scored 535 runs, with his highest score of 155. He had also played 12 List A matches, scoring 257 runs at a strike rate of 96.25. Sarfaraz scored his first triple century in first-class cricket in January 2020, against Uttar Pradesh in the 2019-20 Ranji Trophy.

Sarfaraz also took on a new role as an occasional wicketkeeper during the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy season in 2022. Although he had previously played wicket-keeping in junior cricket, this was his first experience with senior cricket.

International Career

 Sarfaraz Khan made his international debut against England in the third test at Rajkot on February 15, 2024. In his debut inning, Khan scored 62 runs off 66 balls before being run out on the non-strikers end due to a mix-up with eventual centurion Ravindra Jadeja. His innings featured nine fours and a six. Khan's fifty came in 48 balls, making it the joint-fastest 50 by an Indian cricketer on debut, alongside Hardik Pandya's 50 against Sri Lanka in 2017.
Sarfaraz Khan scored 68 not out from 72 balls in his debut test match's second innings, with a strike rate of 94.44. His innings featured six fours and three sixes. Sarfaraz Khan became the fourth Indian cricketer to score twin fifties on Test debut, following Dilawar Hussain, Sunil Gavaskar, and Shreyas Iyer. Sarfaraz has the highest strike rate (94.2) of the 43 batters who have scored 50 or more runs on debut in men's Tests (where balls-faced data is available). Khan shared a 158-run partnership with Yashasvi Jaiswal for the fifth wicket at a run rate of 6.53 per over, the highest run rate for an Indian pair to add 150 or more runs in a Test innings and the seventh highest run rate for 150-plus balls in men's Tests (where data is available). It became India's highest and longest partnership of more than a run per ball in men's Test cricket. The partnership assisted India in setting a target of 557 for England in the fourth inning. India's target in Rajkot became their second highest in Test cricket, trailing only 617 against New Zealand in Wellington in 2009. This resulted in India's 434-run victory over England, the largest by runs for India in Test cricket and the second largest by any team against England, trailing only Australia's 562-run win at The Oval in 1934.