Sarfaraz Khan Joins Sunil Gavaskar, Sachin Tendulkar, Virat Kohli In Elite Listing With Maiden Check Ton vs New Zealand

Sarfaraz Khan led the cost for India because it recreation a robust reply to new Zealand within the second innings of the primary Check in Bengaluru. Sarfaraz (125, 154b) and Rishabh Pant (53, 56b) have been at crease when an early lunch was taken resulting from rain. The duo milked 113 runs for the unbroken fourth wicket in simply 22 overs. The sight of Rishabh Pant strolling out to bat with Sarfaraz too may need calmed a variety of nerves within the Indian dressing room after the previous missed the third day’s play resulting from a blow he copped on his knee on the second day whereas ‘retaining.

There was hardly any doubt in regards to the hero of the primary session.

Enjoying in solely his fifth Check, the Mumbai man, resuming from 70, tamed overcast circumstances and New Zealand bowlers in impeccable style as India added 63 runs forward of the primary drinks break.

A superb chunk of it got here from Sarfaraz’s bat and the way in which he nullified the Kiwis pacers by means of late cuts was simply distinctive.

With the ton, he erased the recollections of the duck within the first innings. And with that he joined an elite membership of Indian batters who scored a ton after getting out for duck in the identical Check match. 

Listing of Indian stars to attain duck in first innings and a century within the second innings of the identical recreation:

Madhav Apte – 0 and 163 (Vs West Indies, 1953)

Sunil Gavaskar – 0 and 118 (vs Australia, 1977)

Dilip Vengsarkar – 0 and 103 (vs England, 1979)

Mohammad Azharuddin – 0 and 109 (vs Pakistan, 1989)

Sachin Tendulkar – 0 and 136 (Vs Pakistan, 1999)

Shikhar Dhawan – 0 and 114 (Vs New Zealand, 2014)

Virat Kohli – 0 and 104 (vs Sri Lanka, 2017)

Shubman Gill – 0 and 119 (vs Bangladesh, 2024)

Sarfaraz Khan – 0 and 125* (vs New Zealand, 2024)

With PTI inputs