Indian batter Cheteshwar Pujara. (FILE photo)
Wicket-keeper batter Rishabh Pant played a pivotal relation with the bat successful the past Border Gavaskar Trophy successful 2020/21 erstwhile India went connected to registry a celebrated 2-1 bid victory, winning for the 2nd clip successful a enactment successful Australia. However, Australian skipper astatine the clip Tim Paine would admit that much than Pant it was Cheteshwar Pujara who had a bigger interaction connected Australia.
Pujara faced 928 balls successful the bid which is the astir by immoderate batter successful the series. “What I bash remember, a batch of radical speech astir Rishabh Pant successful the past bid successful Australia, but the feline who won the bid was Pujara,” said Paine connected The Grade Cricketer Podcast.
Thanks to Pujara’s publication not lone did the Australia seamers person to travel backmost to vessel 2nd and 3rd spells but besides immoderate of the little batters were protected against the caller ball. “He wore america down, helium wore our accelerated bowlers down. He kept getting deed connected the body, but helium kept getting up. There is inactive a spot for that successful Test cricket,” the erstwhile Australian skipper added.
Current Australian skipper Pat Cummins excessively would sing praises for Pujara. “It was large to play against him. He didn’t let the bowlers to predominate and was 1 measurement ahead,” said Pat Cummins connected Star Sports earlier successful the month. “I enjoyed bowling against him. There were days erstwhile helium won and I besides tasted occurrence connected immoderate days. Pujara is simply a large cricketer and it is going to beryllium a antithetic benignant of feeling with him not being around.”
India released the squad for the upcoming Border Gavaskar Trophy earlier successful the period with the seasoned batter missing successful the squad. “We wanted to predominate each other. He had his accidental against maine but determination was ever a accidental for maine to instrumentality his wicket. It is simply a shame that helium volition not beryllium playing successful the upcoming Border-Gavaskar Trophy,” said Cummins.