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Manasi Pathak

Sarfaraz Khan: A Mumbai maidan cricketer’s long journey to India Test cap

Sarfaraz Khan scored 200 runs in his first three Test matches for India [File: Francis Mascarenhas/Reuters]

Mumbai, India – Batting for nearly 10 hours at Mumbai’s Cross Maidan, Sarfaraz Khan first stole the limelight as a schoolboy in 2009 when he rewrote the history of the famed ground in the Indian metropolis renowned for producing great batters.

The then-12-year-old recorded the highest-ever score in the Harris Shield, a tournament known as the Holy Grail of school cricket in the city.

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