Real age of Pujara?

[The Realist]

When batting and moving around the field looks like a retirement home escapee. Everything is done in an ultra-slow motion bubble with very little game awareness.

 

Bats at the same sleep inducing style irrespective of the match situation which instead of releasing pressure instead piles it onto the next batsman.

 

Seems to think cricket is about how many balls you can block, rather than how many runs you can score. 

 

Where is the intent, intelligence and passion? 

 

Which begs the question is he REALLY 32?

 

 

[gattaca]

Dhokla se dhokha

[Ankit_sharma03]

irrelevant question - pujara n ashwin have always been on slower side 

[coffee_rules]

Vihari too is in the same lethatgic side. 

[ShoonyaSifar]

Poorly informed post. Pujara had two major knee surgeries within 2 years very early in his career that slowed him down substantially. The 2nd one in 2011 almost finished his career. Compare how he batted and fielded in 2010 in his first few tests to how he was after his return from the sufgery.

 

That he's gone onto build an impressive Test career despite those setbacks is a great testament to his will power

[Lone Wolf]

Pujara is no way 32..  Maybe a 2-3 years age fudger.  Ashwin's age looks spot on & we know he has fitness issues.  Pujara's reflexes look done.  He was never slow earlier used to field in Short leg as well & was very very sharp in early days. 

 

[Serpico]

isn't pujara son of former ranji player? its not easy to fudge your age when you are familiar to cricket fraternity from very young age 

[Bigg Brother]

Rubbish Post. He has been like this since years. Have seen him since '06 U19-wc. He is 32. He has been  running like this in outfield since many years. I can recall during IPL-14, people laughing at him for his fielding and running, he was only 26 that time. People here act as someone's age predictor. That happens only in Pakistan.

[ShoonyaSifar]

1 hour ago, Lone Wolf said:

Pujara is no way 32..  Maybe a 2-3 years age fudger.  Ashwin's age looks spot on & we know he has fitness issues.  Pujara's reflexes look done.  He was never slow earlier used to field in Short leg as well & was very very sharp in early days. 

 

Watch the footage of the 2006 u-19 WC. Pujara, looked like a typical 18 year old. As I said  knee injuries which required major surgeries in 2009 and 2011 slowed him down considerably (and perhaps also killed his ODI career)

[Bigg Brother]

14 minutes ago, ShoonyaSifar said:

Watch the footage of the 2006 u-19 WC. Pujara, looked like a typical 18 year old. As I said  knee injuries which required major surgeries in 2009 and 2011 slowed him down considerably (and perhaps also killed his ODI career)

He had cruciate ligament tear (idk ACL or PCL). It was complete tear not even partial. Obviously it is going to slow him down as locking-unlocking movements of knee are going to be affected because of that.

[putrevus]

Not many people come back from ACL tears. It used to end careers.Those knee injuries have defintely taken a toll.But credit to him for having successful international career.

Edited January 8, 2021 by putrevus

[Number]

Poor fielding is because of fitness issues but even after 10 years he really hasn't developed ability or confidence to put bad balls away or rotate strike.

[ShoonyaSifar]

Just now, Number said:

Poor fielding is because of fitness issues but even after 10 years he really hasn't developed ability or confidence to put bad balls away or rotate strike.

So he can't put the bad balls or rotate strike and yet in these 10 years, he has perhaps been our best match winner on spinning tracks and has won us our biggest away series!

 

Must have some other special abilities to have had a great test career so far despite such massive limitations you've pointed out

[Number]

7 minutes ago, ShoonyaSifar said:

So he can't put the bad balls or rotate strike and yet in these 10 years, he has perhaps been our best match winner on spinning tracks and has won us our biggest away series!

 

Must have some other special abilities to have had a great test career so far despite such massive limitations you've pointed out

 

I am not complaining about returns he has given, in fact after 2018 Aus tour I rate him very high as a match winner. But lets be objective, you have to be massively biased if you think Pujara's game has improved even .1% wrt strike rotation or range of shots.

Edited January 8, 2021 by Number

[Yoda-esque]

When batting and moving around the field looks like a retirement home escapee. Everything is done in an ultra-slow motion bubble with very little game awareness.
 
Bats at the same sleep inducing style irrespective of the match situation which instead of releasing pressure instead piles it onto the next batsman.
 
Seems to think cricket is about how many balls you can block, rather than how many runs you can score. 
 
Where is the intent, intelligence and passion? 
 
Which begs the question is he REALLY 32?
 

 

Retirement home escapee rofl

[The Realist]