IND vs NZ: Sarfaraz Khan hits maiden Test hundred at No. 4 for India

Despite losing Kohli connected the past shot of the erstwhile day, the 26-year-old Sarfaraz continued his battle with Rishabh Pant for institution connected Day 4 morning, reaching his maiden Test ton successful lone 110 balls.

Sarfaraz is lone the seventh Indian No. 4 to people a Test 100 this century, joining an elite database comprising Sachin Tendulkar, Kohli, Rahul Dravid, VVS Laxman, Sourav Ganguly and Ajinkya Rahane.

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Replacing an injured Shubman Gill successful the XI, Sarfaraz fell for a duck successful the first-innings arsenic India were skittled for 46, their lowest full astatine home. Accommodating Sarfaraz astatine No. 4, India’s elder batter Kohli besides moved up to No. 3 for the archetypal clip successful a Test successful 8 years.

The 100 marked Sarfaraz’s 16 First-Class ton and a 2nd successful consecutive matches. After missing retired connected a spot successful the precocious concluded Test bid against Bangladesh, Sarfaraz made a connection with a treble 100 for Mumbai successful the Irani Cup necktie against ROI successful Lucknow earlier this month. Sarfaraz became the archetypal Mumbai batter to grounds an Irani Cup treble hundred.

Interestingly, Sarfaraz has much FC hundreds than fifties (14) truthful acold successful his career. Sarfaraz’s First Class mean is presently the highest among each progressive cricketers, astatine 69.56*, crossed 52 matches.

On his Test debut against England successful Rajkot, Sarfaraz smashed duplicate half-centuries and followed up with different 50 successful the Dharamsala Test arsenic India won the bid 3-1.

Known to deed large ‘daddy’ hundreds, Sarfaraz has converted 10 of these 15 tons into 150-plus scores, 4 of them being treble hundreds. Sarfaraz notched his highest score, a whopping 301 not retired for Mumbai successful a 2019-20 Ranji Trophy lucifer against Uttar Pradesh, his erstwhile side.