Twitter reactions on Cheteshwar Pujara’s 17th Test century

Dixit Bhargav | 27/12/2018
Twitter reactions on Cheteshwar Pujara's 17th Test century

Twitter reactions on Cheteshwar Pujara’s 17th Test century: Twitter was elated as India’s No. 3 scored his 17th Test century.

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:

 

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Cheteshwar Pujara India tour of Australia 2018-19

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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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