New Delhi: 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) — an

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