The Saurashtra Cricket Association Stadium was officially named after Niranjan Shah, a prominent local and national administrator. And at the VVIP event to mark this, Jay Shah announced Rohit Sharma will lead India at this year's T20 World Cup, promising the trophy would be theirs. "Hum Bharat ka jhanda gadenge" (We will hoist India's flag).
This coronation was slightly curious to the outsider, Shah being secretary of the Board of Control for Cricket in India, not head selector, and Sharma widely expected to do the job anyway. Perhaps it was designed as a public pick-me-up. After all, the heartache from last year's World Cup final was among the various speculative diagnoses as to why Sharma had been a dormant volcano during the first two Tests.
Either way, that volcano finally blew its stack on the opening day in Rajkot as Sharma went from dormant to dominating. Over the course of five hours, and after an alarming start at the other end, India's Test captain knitted together Test century No 11 with 131 from 196 balls. Allied with an unbeaten 110 from Ravindra Jadeja, and an eye-catching 62 from Sarfaraz Khan on debut, it enabled the hosts to reach an ominous 326 for five at stumps.
The late surge from Sarfaraz, a tubby right-hander with a bulging first-class average of 69.85, will have been celebrated on the maidans of Mumbai. His father and coach, Naushad, was crying when the cap came out first thing and must have been in heaven after tea.
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