Rajkot: Sarfaraz Khan played a brilliant knock of unbeaten 68 runs on the fourth day of the third Test between India and England to join an elite list of cricketers.
Sarfaraz smacked three sixes during his stay at the crease and joined an elite list of cricketers which includes former cricketing great Sunil Gavaskar. He became the fourth batter to ink 50+ scores in each innings on his Test debut for India.
Dilawar Hussain achieved the feat in 1934 against England in Kolkata while Gavaskar did the same in 1971 while playing against West Indies in Port of Spain. Shreyas Iyer is the next in the list with his knocks of unbeaten 105 runs and 65 respectively in the Test against Kanpur in 2021.
Apart from the individual feat, the second innings also witnessed multiple team records being broken. India hit 18 sixes in the innings which were the most number of maximums by India in an innings. Also, India hit 28 maximums hitting most sixes by the team in a Test.
Notably, India also became the team to tonk most sixes (48) in a series. Here are the stats broken during India's innings.