It was a exceptional day for the Khan brothers – Sarfaraz and Musheer – miles aside, as they continued to excel at cricket of their respective ranges. Sarfaraz Khan, who would have felt laborious accomplished with continued omission simply refuses to surrender as the Mumbai batter smashed one other first-class century in the India A vs England Lions match in Ahmedabad. Sarfaraz, who was coming off scores of 96 and 55 in the final couple of video games, went massive and the way as he ended up scoring 161 off simply 160 deliveries as India A took a humongous 337-run lead towards the England Lions.
Devdutt Padikkal laid the platform with a century earlier than Sarfaraz with a mindblowing knock and Washington Sundar and Saurabh Kumar with fifties continued as England Lions bowlers toiled laborious for the complete day earlier than bowling out India A for 489.
On the different hand, Musheer, who had a superb day with the ball towards Bangladesh in the first sport got here out all weapons blazing with the bat towards Ireland in India’s second sport. Coming in at No 3, Musheer slammed a powerful century as he stitched a 156-run stand for the third wicket with skipper Uday Saharan to assist India get better after shedding two wickets inside the first 20 overs.Â
Musheer was unlucky to get tun out for 118, nonetheless, not earlier than smashing none 4s and 4 6s and preserving Indian on course of a giant whole. After which wicketkeeper batter Aravelly Avanish and Sachin Dhas with cameos helped India to get to an enormous rating of 301 which was finally an excessive amount of for the Irish facet. Ireland had been skittled out for simply 100 with pacer Naman Tiwari taking 4 wickets and left-arm spinner Saumy Pandey taking three wickets but once more as the Indian bowlers had been throughout the opposition like a rash.
