Cheteshwar Pujara: Watch Indian batsman scores half-century in AUS A vs IND A practice match

Dixit Bhargav | 06/12/2020
Cheteshwar Pujara: Watch Indian batsman scores half-century in AUS A vs IND A practice match

Cheteshwar Pujara: The 32-year old batsman didn’t show signs of rust despite playing a competitive match after 268 days.

During the first warm-up match of the ongoing India’s tour of Australia between Australia A and India A in Sydney, India A batsman Cheteshwar Pujara resumed batting in the same nick like he batted during India’s tour of Australia in 2018-19.

Pujara, who had won the ‘Man of the Series’ award for scoring 521 runs at an average of 74.42 including three centuries and a half-century in India’s last tour, had to walk out to bat only in the second over after opening batsman Shubman Gill got dismissed for a first-ball duck.

Within no time, India also lost their other opener in Prithvi Shaw (0) to find themselves in trouble. However, a 76-run partnership between Pujara and captain Ajinkya Rahane stitched a rescue act for India A.

Pujara, who dominated the partnership, was in his archetype touch scoring drives down the ground and also flicking leg-side deliveries for boundaries. The 32-year old batsman being among the runs despite batting in a competitive match after almost nine months must have been a confidence-booster for the visitors.

In an attempt to play one flick too many, Pujara fell into the trap created the hosts as he handed a straightforward catch to Australia A batsman Marcus Harris at leg slip off James Pattinson. The right-hand batsman ended up scoring 54 (140) with the help of five fours.

While Rahane is only a shot away from completing his half-century, the rest of the Indian batsmen have failed to the extent that India A are currently at 138/6 in 57 overs.

Cheteshwar Pujara scores half-century at the Drummoyne Oval

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Dixit Bhargav

Born and brought up in Pathankot, Dixit Bhargav is an engineering and sports management graduate who works as a Cricket Editor at The SportsRush. Having written more than 10,000 articles across more than five years at TSR, his first cricketing memory dates back to 2002 when former India captain Sourav Ganguly had waved his jersey at the historic Lord’s balcony. What followed for an 8-year-old was an instant adulation for both Ganguly and the sport. The optimist in him is waiting for the day when Punjab Kings will win their maiden Indian Premier League title. When not watching cricket, he is mostly found in a cinema hall watching a Punjabi movie.

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