Interesting facts about the Young Sensation Sarfaraz Khan

Interesting facts about the Young Sensation Sarfaraz Khan: The entire cricket fraternity was in awe of 17-year-old Sarfaraz Khan trashing the Rajasthan Royals bowlers all over the park last night. He was the youngest player to be a part of IPL. Here are some interesting facts about Sarfaraz Khan, who has the potential to play for India in the future.

• Sarfaraz Khan was just 9 years old when IPL began.
• His father Naushad Khan is his coach and he has developed several cricketers including Iqbal Abdulla and Kamran Khan.
• When Sarfaraz first started attending cricket matches, he used to sleep in the middle of his father’s kit bags to protect the ball hitting him.
• When he was 12 years old, he scored a mammoth 439 in the Harris Shield Inter-School Cricket tournament.
• In 2013, when he was 15 years old, Sarfaraz scored 101 from 66 balls against South Africa in the Under-19 triangular at Vishakapatnam
• After that knock, he was quoted in Indian Express, Iqbalbhai always sets challenges. He asks me to score a century before every match, and most times I win. This time he told me to hit 300, I went on to score 400.
• Sarfaraz was once suspended by the Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA) for fudging his age. Later, those charges were withdrawn after the youngster passed an advanced test.
• He was thrown out of the MCA cricket camp and BCCI batting academy on disciplinary grounds.
• After he was dismissed from the camp, is father took him Mughda Bavre, a psychologist associated with the Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA), who taught him to be “level-headed and humble”.
• He also had a spat with Kolkata Knight Riders batsman Robin Uthappa at the start of the IPL.
• He was a part of the Indian U-19 team that participated in the 2014 Under-19 World Cup. Shreyas Iyer, Deepak Hooda, Vijay Zol, Sanju Samson were his teammates then.
• He was a part of the 2014 Under-19 World Cup’s team of the tournament. HE had scored 211 runs at an average of over 70.
• Recently in the Syed Mushtaq Ali T20 tournament (West Zone), Mumbai needed 3 runs off the last ball to win against Baroda with Sarfaraz on strike. He simply scooped the ball over the wicket-keeper for a six and won his side the match.
• Few months back, Sarfaraz’s younger brother Musheer Khan made his debut in the Giles Shield U-14 tournament (an inter-school cricket competition) at the age of 6 years, 9 months.
• He was the youngest to enter the IPL auctions and fetched Rs 50 Lakhs in it. He told that he wanted to buy his father a SUV car with that money.
• Sarfaraz can bowl leg spin and medium pace.