Pujara, what a performance!

[ravishingravi]

Three words. 

 

County Cricket 

Domestic Cricket 

IPL

 

Technically 5 words

[Mosher]

Another top innings from Pujara 

[Temujin Khaghan]

If pujara keeps playing like this we will be forced to push sehwag out of ATG Indian test XI..

 

Gavaskar

Pujara

Dravid 

SRT 

Kohli 

Kapil

MSD

Ashwin

Kumble

Zak

Bumrah

 

Now we patiently wait for another fast bowler to claim Zak's place and Kuldeep begins his journey to eventually replace one of the spinners..

 

 

 

 

 

[rkt.india]

10 minutes ago, ravishingravi said:

Three words. 

 

County Cricket 

Domestic Cricket 

IPL

 

Technically 5 words

Pujara did zilch in county cricket succeeded in tests. Vijay who did well in county flopped big time in tests.

[rkt.india]

50 minutes 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.  

Though 1971 WI attack was quite ordinary.

[putrevus]

 

he was just too good to fail this long. After 2013 in SA this is best we are seeing him. Hope he reach 30 plus 100s

[King Tendulkar]

Alos shows long rope(not always) sometimes work.  Pujra had many tours and many years in team.  Falied a lot but now we bear fruits

 

Dravid struggled for long time v aussies until 2001 is another case

[express bowling]

1 hour 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 1971,  the WI bowling attack was very ordinary.   SMG's  greatness was proved against much better Windies attacks from 1976  to  1985.  

Edited January 3, 2019 by express bowling

[Straight Drive]

4 minutes ago, express bowling said:

 

In 1971,  the WI bowling attack was very ordinary.   SMG's  greatness was proved against much better Windies attacks from 1976  to  1983.  

Yup, I have already posted that in my previous post wrt Kerry Packer. Sobers was the only reputed bowler. However, Sunny was injured, missed first test. Made test debut in WI. Batted without helmet. Given the other context of those times 774 was huge runs.

 

 

The best innings I have watched Sunny bat was his 140 odd against the quartet of Marshall, Garner, Roberts and Holding in 1983. It was rain affected match and that pace attack was more dangerous in those conditions. All he had was a floppy hat. 

[zen]

1 minute ago, Straight Drive said:

Yup, I have already posted that in my previous post wrt Kerry Packer. Sobers was the only reputed bowler. However, Sunny was injured, missed first test. Made test debut in WI. Batted without helmet. Given the other context of those times 774 was huge runs.

 

 

The best innings I have watched Sunny bat was his 140 odd against the quartet of Marshall, Garner, Roberts and Holding in 1983. It was rain affected match and that pace attack was more dangerous in those conditions. All he had was a floppy hat. 

and some of the guys were averaging less than 40 vs that attack 

[zen]

[express bowling]

5 minutes ago, Straight Drive said:

 

The best innings I have watched Sunny bat was his 140 odd against the quartet of Marshall, Garner, Roberts and Holding in 1983. It was rain affected match and that pace attack was more dangerous in those conditions. All he had was a floppy hat. 

 

That was a magical innings and he was using a skull cap.

[zen]

iirc, the australian commentators were talking about having someone like Pujara in their 11 

[Straight Drive]

Just now, zen said:

and some of the guys were averaging less than 40 vs that attack 

Overall Dilip Sardesai was good, so was Mankad. Vishy was wonderful. Jayantilal was below par anyways. Wadekar was okay.  I think Sunny scored 774 in 4 test as I am certain he missed debut in first one. Most other batsman were way behind even though they batted in all 5 tests iirc.

[Straight Drive]

12 minutes ago, express bowling said:

 

That was a magical innings and he was using a skull cap.

He was not wearing skull cap in 1971. But as you said in 1983 it was there, still the whole of front face is exposed to the most fearsome pace quartet in history of game bowling in their home conditions and inclement weather in that test. A lot of other protective gear wasn't used as well. 

Edited January 3, 2019 by Straight Drive

[rkt.india]

17 minutes ago, zen said:

and some of the guys were averaging less than 40 vs that attack 

Our batting on a whole used to be very poor. Gavaskar came and became the mainstay.

[express bowling]

2 minutes ago, rkt.india said:

Our batting on a whole used to be very poor. Gavaskar came and became the mainstay.

 

True.

[Straight Drive]

25 minutes ago, zen said:

and some of the guys were averaging less than 40 vs that attack 

If Farookh Engineer had not been dropped for not playing Ranking trophy prior to tour, we could have had a long batting lineup.Krishnamurthy was useless with the bat. 

 

 

Edited January 3, 2019 by Straight Drive

[Tendulkar1996]

Hats off che,you proved me wrong.I used to mock you as asian bradman,never will again.If we win this series you will be immortal.

Career defining stuff.The heir to the wall.

[rtmohanlal]

brilliant  performance by Pujara.... how things can change some time!!!!!!.... Never rated him highly .Till the start of this series he had the most pathetic record in SENA.His county performance before ENG series and his silly LKG kid  like game awareness during the initial phases of the ENG series  provided no indication what so ever  of this turn around. So kudos to him for turning it around and hope he

continues to be  that bridge between  openers & middle order batsmen  for at least 4 more years( hope he does not turn out to be  another Murali Vijay) for the sake of the team.