England’s Test tour of India 2024, IND vs ENG: Sarfaraz Khan (Sarfaraz Khan) may have taken a long time to fulfill his dream of making his international debut for India, but it did not take much time for this talented batsman to get his name engraved in the record books.

Sarfaraz Khan was in the race to debut for Team India for almost three years, and today the day has finally come when he was given the debut cap in Rajkot. The Mumbai batsman made his debut today on February 15 in the third match of the ongoing five-match Test series against England and scored a half-century in just 48 balls in his very first match.

Sarfaraz Khan did wonders in his debut match

Sarfaraz Khan gave the England cricket team a taste of their own medicine on the first day of the Rajkot Test by scoring a explosive half-century at the Niranjan Shah Stadium. After Indian cricket team captain Rohit Sharma’s record brilliant innings of 131 runs, debutant Khan took the team’s score forward by scoring a half-century in just 48 balls and the all-rounder hardik pandya Equaled the record of.

Sarfaraz Khan has now become the Indian player to score the joint second fastest half-century on debut in Test cricket. He is now at par with Hardik Pandya, who took 48 balls to reach his half-century in his debut match against Sri Lanka in 2017. Sarfaraz is now behind only former Indian cricketer Yadvendra Singh (Yuvraj of Patiala), who scored a half-century in 42 balls in his first and last Test in 1934.

Players who scored the fastest half-century on Test debut by an Indian player:

Prince of Patiala vs England, 1934 – 42

Hardik Pandya vs Sri Lanka, 2017 – 48

Sarfaraz Khan vs England, 2024 – 48

Shikhar Dhawan vs Australia, 2013 – 50

Prithvi Shaw vs West Indies, 2018 – 56

Let us tell you, before being run-out due to lack of communication with Indian star all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja, Sarfaraz played a brilliant inning of 62 runs in 66 balls with the help of 9 fours and one six, and during this his strike rate was around 94. Was from.