Twitter reactions on Cheteshwar Pujara’s 18th Test century: Twitter was elated on watching the Indian batsman score yet another century.
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During the first day of the fourth Test of the ongoing India’s tour of Australia at Sydney, India batsman Cheteshwar Pujara scored his 18th Test century to surpass former Indian batsmen like Dilip Vengsarkar and VVS Laxman.
In which is his third century of the series, it is also his third in Australia and fifth against Australia. Given how other batsmen from both sides have struggled to play the big innings in this series, it speaks highly about the stellar form of the highest run-scorer from both the teams.
Coming in to bat at No. 3, Pujara once again played a similar role, that of an opening batsman, as he was required step out in the second over after opening batsman Lokesh Rahul registered yet another failure.
Pujara was seen going through the whole daunting process of scoring a Test century in his quintessential manner. While Mayank Agarwal was scoring runs at a decent pace from the other end, Pujara took his time to get his eye in.
Despite key wickets falling from the other end, Pujara continued to fight, putting a hefty price on his wicket, something he has been doing since the start of the series.
The 30-year old cricketer was seen punishing the bad balls as and when they were bowled to him but seldom did he attempt to do anything which involved a significant amount of risk.
On the last delivery of the 73rd over, Pujara clipped a Mitchell Starc delivery through the leg-side to complete his century. While he raised his bat towards the audiences and the Indian balcony, the whole of SCG stood up to applause for the Indian batsman.
His innings saw him accumulating plentiful reactions in the affirmative on social media platform Twitter. Read some of the reactions below:
