Sarfaraz Khan has cultivated a reputation for consistently producing astronomically high scores in the Ranji Trophy but it has been slightly thus far this season. The 25-year-old, whose exclusion from the India A side’s red-ball matches at home against South Africa A had raised a lot of eyebrows , as is his general exclusion from the Indian Test team, has only made scores of 42, 32, 1, 15 and 5 not out in three matches this Ranji Trophy season.

Sarfaraz’s senior Mumbai teammate acknowledged that the cause of his form this season may be his non-selection in the national Test team. “In the end, he is a human being and everyone makes some mistakes. There is always that (rough) patch for big players. If we look at the last 4-5 years, he has consistently scored runs,” Lad told the media he

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