Twitter reactions on Cheteshwar Pujara’s 17th Test century: Twitter was elated as India’s No. 3 scored his 17th Test century.
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During the second day of the third Test of the ongoing India’s tour of Australia at Melbourne, India batsman scored his 17th Test century in another game-changing innings. Having registered the milestone, Pujara has now surpassed former India captain Sourav Ganguly and equaled former India batsman VVS Laxman in terms of Test centuries.
In which was an archetype Pujara innings, it saw him facing 280 deliveries before reaching the three-figure mark. Having scored his 16th Test century at Adelaide, Pujara has scored his second of the series, the first time he has done it in an overseas series. It is also his fifth against the Aussies.
Pujara had come in to bat in the 19th over yesterday. The 30-year old right-hand batsman stitched an 83-run partnership with debutant opening batsman Mayank Agarwal.
Playing in his usual manner, not for a moment did Pujara displayed signs of doing anything ‘out of the box’. Given he had (still has) India captain Virat Kohli at the other end, it was as if he was asked to play in his quintessential manner.
Resuming Day 2 on 68*, Pujara was lucky in the second over of the day when a Mitchell Starc delivery went off his leading edge to the third man boundary. It was after some time that Pujara slowly and gradually started to accumulate the runs, both for him and the team.
The landmark finally arrived a few overs before lunch when Pujara drove a Nathan Lyon delivery straight past Kohli to collect four runs and a memorable century.
Pujara’s innings saw him gaining numerous accolades on social media platform Twitter. Read some of the tweets below:
