Pujara, what a performance!

[zen]

still going on    View overall figures [change view] Primary team India  Opposition team Australia  Home or away away (home of opposition)  Start of match date greater than or equal to 1 dec 2018  Ordered by batting average (descending) Page 1 of 1 Showing 1 - 16 of 16   First Previous Next  Last  Return to query menu Cleared query menu Overall figures Player Mat Inns NO Runs HS Ave BF SR 100 50 0 4s 6s   CA Pujara 4 7 1 428 123 71.33 1084 39.48 3 1 1 41 2 MA Agarwal 2 3 0 195 77 65.00 375 52.00 0 2 0 19 5 V Kohli 4 7 0 282 123 40.28 684 41.22 1 1 1 31 1 RG Sharma 2 4 1 106 63* 35.33 199 53.26 0 1 0 7 3 RR Pant 4 6 0 191 39 31.83 284 67.25 0 0 0 16 4 AM Rahane 4 7 0 217 70 31.00 463 46.86 0 2 0 18 3 GH Vihari 3 5 1 74 28 18.50 240 30.83 0 0 0 8 0 R Ashwin 1 2 0 30 25 15.00 94 31.91 0 0 0 1 0 M Vijay 2 4 0 49 20 12.25 154 31.81 0 0 1 4 0 KL Rahul 3 5 0 57 44 11.40 102 55.88 0 0 1 5 1 UT Yadav 1 2 1 6 4* 6.00 54 11.11 0 0 0 0 0 RA Jadeja 2 2 0 9 5 4.50 9 100.00 0 0 0 2 0

Edited January 3, 2019 by zen

[cowboysfan]

If we win this series he will remembered for generations for helping us win our 1st series in australia.

[Real McCoy]

3rd 100 of the series . Easily the impact player of the series if India wins this one. Need to continue until CUmmins will say I can't bowl to this guy anymore.

[SK_IH]

Officially India ATG today. So, happy he has got rid of that FTB/HTB tag, didnt suit player of his calibre. I had given up on him being a universal player, kudos to Pujara.

[mishra]

Necer Ever doubted his class and ability.All ways maintained that His failures were down to insecurities and team selction politics

[express bowling]

A player should be rated highly only when he can perform against big teams, both home and away.   Should apply to players of all teams.

 

In this series, and in the last 2 tests vs England,  Pujara has elevated himself from a good batsman to a potential great one.  

 

And the way he has bossed the Aussie attack in the crucial 4th test ... is so pleasing to see.

 

It bodes well for Team India to have 2 all condition 50+ average batsmen who are still reasonably young.

 

Very happy for Pujara.  All the best  !

 

 

[Straight Drive]

Player of the series confirmed with this knock

[express bowling]

9 minutes ago, mishra said:

Necer Ever doubted his class and ability.All ways maintained that His failures were down to insecurities and team selction politics

 

He did not have any insecurity during the 2014 tours of NZ, England and Australia.

 

Fact is ... he has made some technical changes for playing in Australia this time.  His grip is a bit higher ... so he is standing a bit more upright and handling the Australian bounce better.  And his county stint helped him improve his game against swing and seam.

[velu]

player of the series  ..

[zen]

6 minutes ago, Straight Drive said:

Player of the series confirmed with this knock

almost single handedly made enough to make our bowlers effort count .... if we win the series, this is probably the best batting performance, along with may be Gavaskar's in WI (can't recall many in series winning cause) 

Edited January 3, 2019 by zen

[zen]

PS similar to Gavaskar's in 1971 in WI 

 

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Player	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	100	50	0
SM Gavaskar	4	8	3	774	220	154.80	4	3	0
DN Sardesai	5	8	0	642	212	80.25	3	1	0
ED Solkar	5	7	1	224	65	37.33	0	3	0
AV Mankad	3	6	1	180	53*	36.00	0	1	0
AL Wadekar	5	7	0	151	54	21.57	0	1	1

[Straight Drive]

7 minutes ago, zen said:

almost single handedly made enough to make our bowlers effort count .... if we win the series, this is probably the best batting performance, along with may be Gavaskar's (and Amarnath may be) in WI (can't recall many in series winning cause) 

Sunny scored 774 but  Kerry Packer players missed that series.  Also Sunny did debut in the second test of that series iirc after having a finger infection prior to first test.  Nevertheless Pujara is yet to bat second time in second innings. This is gonna be close.  

Edited January 3, 2019 by Straight Drive

[mishra]

2 minutes ago, express bowling said:

 

He did not have any insecurity during the 2014 tours of NZ, England and Australia.

 

Fact is ... he has made some technical changes for playing in Australia this time.  His grip is a bit higher ... so he is standing a bit more upright and handling the Australian bounce better.  And his county stint helped him improve his game against swing and seam.

He  allways knew ( even fans like me could see it too , so he may have known it way before) that he will be sacrificed so that we can have Rohit in team and later few other darlings of Bunty. 

Only under Kumble, he Seemed to be secure of his place.

Intact, his stint in County was also used as reason to drop him, each time he was brought back, India gave some fight.

[zen]

1 minute ago, Straight Drive said:

Sunny scored 774 but  Kerry Packer players missed that series.  Also Sunny did debut in the second test of that series iirc after having a finger infection prior to first test.  Nevertheless Pujara is yet to bat second time in second innings. This is gonna be close.  

I rate Gavaskar as Ind's best test batsman .... so if Pujara outdoes him or comes close, it is a great achievement 

[Straight Drive]

1 minute ago, zen said:

I rate Gavaskar as Ind's best test batsman .... so if Pujara outdoes him or comes close, it is a great achievement 

Same here, in tests I rate Sunny as the best Indian batsman I have seen. I agree if Pujara comes close to that series Sunny had in 1971 , it's going to be legends stuff imo. 

[diga]

will finish with 50+ avg irrespective of what happens in 2nd innings.. 

[zen]

3 minutes ago, Straight Drive said:

Same here, in tests I rate Sunny as the best Indian batsman I have seen. I agree if Pujara comes close to that series Sunny had in 1971 , it's going to be legends stuff imo. 

In terms of absolute runs, Pujara may not .... but in terms of difference b/w him and other batsmen, he is close or right up there (Gavaskar's performances vs others in that series) 

[beetle]

[express bowling]

20 minutes ago, mishra said:

He  allways knew ( even fans like me could see it too , so he may have known it way before) that he will be sacrificed so that we can have Rohit in team and later few other darlings of Bunty. 

Only under Kumble, he Seemed to be secure of his place.

Intact, his stint in County was also used as reason to drop him, each time he was brought back, India gave some fight.

 

Dhoni never dropped Pujara.  We are talking about 2014 away tours here.

 

Even now, he has played 11 of the 12 away tests in 2018-19.

[chewy]

and to think this guy was dropped to accommodate guys like Rohit Sharma and Raina!!!

 

so many times he had to cover for incompetence of the openers (Dhawan, Vijay, Lokesh) and play-out new ball (upto 20th over), infact most games outside Asia he has been the defacto opener