'Stigma Around Solid Domestic Performers': Priyank Panchal Slams BCCI For Sarfaraz Khan's Non-Selection

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Last Updated:May 31, 2025, 18:16 IST

Priyank Panchal has criticised BCCI for Sarfaraz Khan's non-selection for the England tour, highlighting the stigma against home players.

Sarfaraz Khan past played a first-class crippled successful November (Picture credit: AP)

Former Gujarat opener Priyank Panchal has slammed BCCI implicit Sarfaraz Khan’s non-selection for the elder team, which volition statesman its circuit of England adjacent month, saying that the board’s ‘stigma’ astir home cricketers not being upto the people for planetary cricket needs to go.

Panchal‘s rant came hours aft Sarfaraz scored a superb 92 for India A against the England Lions, gathering a monolithic 181-run concern with Karun Nair to instrumentality India to 232/3 successful the 56th implicit earlier helium was dismissed.

Sarfaraz scored duplicate fifties successful his debut Test and stroked his mode to a daddy 100 successful Bengaluru arsenic India battled a large deficit, but helium didn’t find a spot successful the elder team.

“This stigma astir coagulated home performers not being up to the people for planetary cricket and hence not making the chopped to last squads needs to go," Panchal tweeted connected Friday evening.

Sarfaraz (92 disconnected 119 balls) blended a spot of musculus and a batch of cheekiness but missed retired connected a three-figure people aft doing each the hard work.

Sarfaraz averages 37.1 aft six Tests. He did not get to play successful Australia astatine all, nevertheless and that possibly is simply a motion that the squad absorption has sent to the selectors, who person present picked a much experienced middle-order batter successful Nair.

“Sometimes we conscionable person to marque those decisions. Sarfaraz did play the 3 Tests [against New Zealand] successful India. I cognize helium got a 100 successful the archetypal Test, didn’t get runs [after that] and missed retired successful Australia," Ajit Agarkar said.

“At the moment, we felt Karun has enactment up heaps of runs implicit the past mates of seasons. He’s played a small spot of Tests aboriginal successful his vocation and has played a spot of region cricket," Agarkar added.

India play England successful the archetypal Test from June 20 successful Leeds.

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