{"id":950073,"date":"2026-11-02T17:06:14","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T17:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/950073\/"},"modified":"2026-11-02T17:06:14","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T17:06:14","slug":"everyone-knows-i-dont-have-support-in-life-says-emotional-sarfaraz-khan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/950073\/","title":{"rendered":"Everyone knows, I don\u2019t have support in life, says emotional Sarfaraz Khan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sarfaraz Khan<\/a> is a bitter man. After playing 6 Test matches for India where he scored a hundred and 3 fifties and averaged 37.10, he finds himself in and out of the Indian Test team.<\/p>\n

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The middle-order batter was given a call-up to join the squad for the Test tour of Sri Lanka, but didn\u2019t get a game. Subsequently, he wasn\u2019t picked for Test matches against New Zealand or the three A matches there.<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t even know I would get a call for the Sri Lanka tour. Then, I came back to play for Mumbai. I am not able to understand anything (about the future),\u201d an emotional Sarfaraz told reporters at the Brabourne stadium on Monday. \u201cI am just playing. Whenever and wherever I get a chance to play, I play. If I am called for higher honours, I will go. Else, I will play here (Ranji Trophy).\u201d<\/p>\n

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Despite his voracious appetite for runs at the domestic level (5354 runs at Average of 63.73 in 66 first-class matches, the national selectors are known to have doubts about his ability in SENA conditions. The news has reached Sarfaraz too.<\/p>\n

\u201cNot from the selectors, but when I went with the Indian team recently, I just heard that they are looking at me just for Indian conditions,\u201d he said. \u201cBut I have a question, that I scored hundreds in 60 balls in South Africa and in England (in intra-squad matches). It isn\u2019t that I haven\u2019t scored away from home. But that\u2019s their perspective. My job is to play cricket.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSometimes when you are making a comeback and face a rank turner and you have gone there after a lot of struggle in domestic cricket, you can\u2019t always perform. In those conditions, 30-40 runs can be enough,\u201d he said, perhaps alluding to the turning tracks where he failed against New Zealand at home in Pune and Mumbai.<\/p>\n

From being 97 kilos, Sarfaraz has shed 22 kilos of weight to become a leaner cricketer. \u201cNo one told me to. I just heard on social media and other places and I started working hard on losing weight,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think I was scoring more heavily when I was fat. After better fitness, I am getting fewer big runs,\u201d he joked. \u201cBut it\u2019s not like that. I am still getting runs. Every year cannot be the same. So long as you are not out of form, it\u2019s ok. Sometimes, I get 150, 40, 50, sometimes a poor decision. That\u2019s ok. Big runs will come.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s difficult to restart every season. Scoring runs is not easy. I am following the same routines that I did when I started with my abbu (father). Not taking off days in the off-season, practicing. I don\u2019t know how many runs I will score. I still work as hard as I did when I started playing Ranji Trophy a decade ago. People know if you want to find Sarfaraz Khan, don\u2019t go to his home address, but at the Azad or Cross maidan at 6am,\u201d he said. \u201cSometimes you find success, sometimes not. It\u2019s tough. But this is what you have to do, can\u2019t do much about.\u201d<\/p>\n

Asked if he had lost motivation in the journey, Sarfaraz replied, \u201cI ask myself the same question. Why get up at 5am and go for practice?<\/p>\n

\u201cI have played for India. With normal effort, I can easily keep playing in th Ranji Trophy for Mumbai. I am still scoring hundreds. But when I see my father working hard, and him sweating it out, I work hard for him.\u201d<\/p>\n

At a certain stage in the interaction, Sarfaraz gets despondent. \u201cEveryone knows I don\u2019t have support in life,\u201d he said. \u201cIf anyone has supported me, it\u2019s my father. Nobody else. I worked hard and fulfilled my father\u2019s dream. I have scored big hundreds to get there. It is not easy to play for India in today\u2019s generation.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe motivation is to keep playing cricket. I think I am made for cricket. I don\u2019t like to sit at home,\u201d he added, before joining a teammate\u2019s cake cutting celebrations.<\/p>\n

For those few fleeting moments, Sarfaraz was happy again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sarfaraz Khan is a bitter man. After playing 6 Test matches for India where he scored a hundred…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":950074,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,517071,517070,13070,517072,85,1211],"class_list":["post-950073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-india-test-matches","tag-india-test-team","tag-sarfaraz-khan","tag-sarfaraz-khan-batting-average","tag-sports","tag-test-cricket"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=950073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/950074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=950073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=950073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=950073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}