New Zealand Vs Pakistan - Test Series
Sarfaraz Ahmed has said that his fifth- day century that nearly helped Pakistan pull off an grand chase against New Zealand in Karachi on Friday was the stylish in his Test career.
Speaking at thepost-match donation after bad light forced a draw with Pakistan demanding 15 further runs to chase down 319 and New Zealand a gate down from palm, Sarfaraz said that fur in the fourth innings is always a delicate task.
" surely I've more hundreds, but this was a fourth- innings hundred and in the fourth innings, it isn't easy to club anywhere in the world. So I suppose this is my stylish hundred," he said.
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Workload in focus after Naseem, Rauf named in ODI team .Sarfaraz came in to club with Pakistan four down for 77, at the fall of Babar Azam's gate. Two overs and three runs latterly, Shan Masood was also gone.
Sarfaraz went on to score 118, fur close to five hours, to take Pakistan to the point of palm before he gloved one down to leg slip off Michael Bracewell.
The century limited a remarkable comeback for Safaraz. Having lost his place in the XI in January 2019, for four times he was on the circumferences of the Test set- up but couldn't break back in. Now, picked ahead of the eschewal- of- form Mohammad Rizwan, he indented scores of 86, 53 and 78 before registering his fourth Test century.
" I've been there with the platoon for four times and unfortunately I didn't get a chance but whatever justice came my way, my trouble was to keep playing my game and keep giving performances and if Allah wants also I would get an occasion and I did get an occasion," he said. Sarfaraz said he was veritably tense, but captain Babar and his platoon- mates gave him confidence.
He said that his state of mind was not veritably good when he came to cluc the first time . he was veritably tense , there was a lot of jitters, But the captain gave me a lot of confidence and the boys in the platoon gave me a lot of confidence. " I backed my form from domestic justice and had a good performance."
Sarfaraz played the part of raider as he put on a 123- run cooperation with Saud Shakeel. Once Shakeel fell, he put on a 70- run stage with Agha Salman, but he said that once those two got out, he'd to go on the aft bottom.
" The trouble was that when there were 140 runs left, the communication from the platoon operation and the captain was that you go after the ball," Sarfaraz said on the platoon's tactics on the final day." But when the two lattices fell, I had to go a little on the aft bottom. But if those lattices had not fallen also, the result could have been a better one for us."