'Dreams don't come true that quickly': Sarfaraz Khan after blistering 157 off 75 balls

JAIPUR: For months now, Sarfaraz Khan has lived with the sound — whispers astir ‘missed chances’, stopstart opportunities and a nagging consciousness that helium needed a connection knock. On Wednesday, helium delivered it with a sledgehammer, scoring a blistering 157 disconnected 75 balls to powerfulness Mumbai to a 87-run triumph implicit Goa astatine the Jaipuria Vidyalaya Ground.

The 4th consecutive triumph kept Mumbai connected apical of the Vijay Hazare Trophy Elite Group C array and ended Goa’s threematch winning streak.All eyes were connected Yashasvi Jaiswal but it was Sarfaraz who stole the day show. Riding connected his brutal hitting, Mumbai posted a staggering 444/8, a full that efficaciously decided the contention by the interval. Goa fought hard and crossed 350 but the pursuit was ever a span excessively acold contempt Abhinav Tejrana’s 100.

Jaiswal, backmost aft acute gastroenteritis, made 46 earlier helium fell trying to unit the pace. Sarfaraz’s younger member Musheer Khan past shaped the innings with a fluent 60, keeping the committee moving and mounting up the launchpad. Sarfaraz took implicit from determination and turned the crippled into a highlights reel.Batting astatine No. 4, helium blasted 9 fours and 14 sixes, bringing up his 100 disconnected conscionable 56 balls. His innings near Goa’s bowlers and fielders looking shellshocked.

“When I came in, the run-rate wasn’t excessively precocious due to the fact that some openers saw disconnected the tricky archetypal hour,” Sarfaraz told TOI. “It’s ever hard successful the greeting erstwhile the shot is doing a bit. I settled down archetypal and past attacked arsenic the transportation eased out. The program was to people arsenic galore runs arsenic imaginable and acceptable a beardown target.”He besides underlined however the level helped him explode. “By the clip I came to the crease, Musheer was batting truly well.

He was the archetypal to scope fifty,” Sarfaraz said. “I’ve played plentifulness of one-dayers and I cognize however to gait an innings. I person a bully expanse and cut, and successful this format you can’t person much than 5 fielders out. That gives maine state to play my shots.”Despite the imagination knock, Sarfaraz admitted helium had 1 regret. “We person a communal imagination of scoring hundreds successful the aforesaid game,” helium said. “We were adjacent successful the Ranji Trophy this play and again past week, but we some got retired successful the fifties.

Today, Musheer was batting truthful good and I thought we could bash it. But dreams don’t travel existent that quickly.”BRIEF SCORES: Mumbai 444/8 successful 50 overs (Sarfaraz Khan 157 disconnected 75 balls; Musheer Khan 60; Hardik Tamore 53; Yashasvi Jaiswal 46; Darshan Misal 3/98, V Koushik 2/60, Lalit Yadav 2/93) bushed Goa 357/9 successful 50 overs (Abhinav Tejrana 100; Deepraj Gaonkar 70; Lalit Yadav 64; Shardul Thakur 3/20, Yashasvi Jaiswal 2/52) by 87 runs.