Sarfaraz Khan Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy: Sarfaraz Khan could attract a big bid in the IPL 2026 mini auction. He played a T20I innings with a strike rate of 256 before the auction.

Sarfaraz Khan could attract a big bid in the IPL 2026 mini auction. His explosive 64-run innings in the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy suggest otherwise. Today, in the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy match between Mumbai and Haryana, Sarfaraz Khan smashed a blistering 64 runs in just 25 balls. This innings appears to be enough to attract team owners.

Hit the superfast fifty.

The Super League matches of the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy 2025 began on December 12th. In the first Super League match against Hyderabad, Sarfaraz scored only five runs, but he thrashed the Haryana bowlers. He smashed a super-fast fifty in just 18 balls against Haryana. He scored 64 runs in 25 balls, with a strike rate of 256. He hit nine fours and three sixes in this innings.

472 runs scored in a T20 match

In this match, Haryana, batting first, scored 234 runs. Captain Ankit Kumar scored 89 runs for Haryana, and Nishant Sindhu scored 63 runs. In response, Mumbai got off to a stormy start. Meanwhile, Sarfaraz Khan shared a partnership of 88 runs in 37 balls with Mumbai's opening batsman Yashasvi Jaiswal. Jaiswal scored a century of 101 runs in 50 balls. Mumbai achieved this huge target with 15 balls remaining. A total of 472 runs were scored in this T20 match.

Sarfaraz Khan's name is in the first set.

A total of 350 players will be auctioned, with Sarfaraz Khan's name included in the first set. The first set of auction lists includes Sarfaraz Khan, Prithvi Shaw, Cameron Green, Tim David, Devon Conway, and Jake Fraser-McGurk.The IPL 2026 auction is scheduled to take place in Abu Dhabi on December 16th, for which only 350 players were shortlisted from over 1,000.