Cheteshwar Pujara is giving everyone a lesson in 'how to bat in Test cricket' in the ongoing Test series between India and Australia. Pujara scored another century - his third of the series- as remained unbeaten on 130 as India finished day one at 303 for four.
Pujara made a century in the first innings of the opening Test and then struck another in the third match. It seems that Australia bowlers are getting tired of seeing Pujara playing these long innings.
As Pujara got to his century on day one of the Sydney Test, Australian off-spinner Nathan Lyon cheekily walked past him and asked whether he was bored yet. Lyon was caught on the stump mic as saying, “Aren’t you bored yet?”
Pujara just smiled at Lyon's comment. Pujara has so far scored 458 runs in this series.
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Evem, Australia's latest number three batsman Marnus Labuschagne said the first innings is vital to the result of the fourth Test and that they need to copy his Indian counterpart Cheteshwar Pujara to bat time as the game progresses.
"He was very classy. He has time and patience around at the crease. The way he batted is something I personally would take a lot from. He just batted a lot of time and he has done that through the whole series. And that's what we are going to need to do to step up to put a big score on the board," he said on Thursday.
