WATCH: Cheteshwar Pujara Gets Out Today By Shouldering Arms To Cameron Green

India batter Cheteshwar Pujara got out on the second day of the final match of the second edition of the ICC World Test Championship by shouldering arms to Australia all-rounder Cameron Green. Thus, becoming the second Indian batter after opening batter Shubman Gill (13) to be dismissed in an unusual way.

With India already losing opening batters in the first seven overs, the last thing they could afford right at the start of the third session was Pujara misreading the line of an incoming delivery from Green. Coming in to bat at No. 3 in the seventh over, Pujara departed to the pavilion after scoring 14 (25) with the help of two fours.

Much like captain Rohit Sharma (15) and Gill, the 35-year old player was also looking comfortable against a trio of Australian bowlers at The Oval until his dismissal today.

Cheteshwar Pujara Gets Out Today By Shouldering Arms To Cameron Green

It all happened on the penultimate delivery of the 14th over when Green pitched a ball just outside the off-stump to deceive the right-handed batter. A ball neither too shot nor too wide to be left alone, Pujara’s decision of not offering a shot was always going to be a risky ploy on this particular delivery.

That said, it proved to be calamitous when the ball seamed into him to hit the top of the off-stump. For the unversed, Australia fast bowler Scott Boland had dismissed Gill in an identical way in the afternoon session.

Cheteshwar Pujara spent 6 weeks in England just to be undone by Cam Green. pic.twitter.com/rNSGeMtEUT

— KH SAKIB 🇧🇩 (@Crickettalkss) June 8, 2023

Cheteshwar Pujara County Cricket

Not part of any Indian Premier League 2023 squads unlike all other teammates, Pujara had been playing County Championship Division Two for a couple of months before the start of this match.

Having said that, him spending so much time and scoring so many runs in English conditions hasn’t come in handy for India thus far. Readers must note that Pujara is the second-highest run-scorer in the tournament on the back of scoring 545 runs across eight innings at an average of 68.12 with the help of three centuries and a half-century.

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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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