Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Wednesday expressed “outrage” over Mumbai batter Sarfaraz Khan being ignored for selection in the India A squad recently and said runs in domestic cricket must be valued by the selectors and not just in the IPL.
Tharoor, a cricket aficionado, also said the selectors are too quick to discard proven talent in order to take a punt on “potential”.
Responding to a post which lamented Khan being ignored for the India A series against South Africa A recently, the Congress leader said on X, “This is frankly an outrage. Sarfaraz Khan averages 65-plus in first class cricket, scored a 50 on Test debut and a 150 in a Test we lost, made 92 in his only tour match in England (and a century in the practice match against the full Indian Test team) — and still finds himself excluded from the selectors’ frame of reference.”
“I am also very glad to see Ajinkya Rahane, Prithvi Shaw and Karun Nair making runs in the Ranji Trophy. Our selectors are too quick to ..​Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Wednesday expressed “outrage” over Mumbai batter Sarfaraz Khan being ignored for selection in the India A squad recently and said runs in domestic cricket must be valued by the selectors and not just in the IPL.
Tharoor, a cricket aficionado, also said the selectors are too quick to discard proven talent in order to take a punt on “potential”.
Responding to a post which lamented Khan being ignored for the India A series against South Africa A recently, the Congress leader said on X, “This is frankly an outrage. Sarfaraz Khan averages 65-plus in first class cricket, scored a 50 on Test debut and a 150 in a Test we lost, made 92 in his only tour match in England (and a century in the practice match against the full Indian Test team) — and still finds himself excluded from the selectors’ frame of reference.”
“I am also very glad to see Ajinkya Rahane, Prithvi Shaw and Karun Nair making runs in the Ranji Trophy. Our selectors are too quick to .. ​Latest News [ SOBAN NEWS: International and National ]
