CHE PUJARA is the real deal!

[coffee_rules]

I don't like to see batsmen with low backlift, not a pretty sight compared to a Sehwag or Yuvraj. But pujara is solid in defence, he was nervous initially, but definitely better than the southie finds Vijay and Badri.

[Trichromatic]

[tatters]

No surprise that there's little talk about Pujara's innings. Indians only care about cheap thrills and reckless Sehwag-like idiotic play because of the short attention-spans. Pujara looks a class player - and like Kohli - I have no doubt he can translate the form abroad because they have good technique and guts. The sooner your idiotic heroes like Sehwag and Raina go away and the team is full of responsible, proper Test batsmen the better. The older players are a cancer on this progress of Indian cricket at the moment. Pujara was ready to come in a couple of years ago. And yet we persisted with Laxman's failures in England and Australia. Time to give youth a chance. But the 'right' youth. Not more Twenty20 idiots.

[Trichromatic]

No surprise that there's little talk about Pujara's innings. Indians only care about cheap thrills and reckless Sehwag-like idiotic play because of the short attention-spans. Pujara looks a class player - and like Kohli - I have no doubt he can translate the form abroad because they have good technique and guts. The sooner your idiotic heroes like Sehwag and Raina go away and the team is full of responsible, proper Test batsmen the better. The older players are a cancer on this progress of Indian cricket at the moment. Pujara was ready to come in a couple of years ago. And yet we persisted with Laxman's failures in England and Australia. Time to give youth a chance. But the 'right' youth. Not more Twenty20 idiots.

:WTF:

[saneindian]

No surprise that there's little talk about Pujara's innings. Indians only care about cheap thrills and reckless Sehwag-like idiotic play because of the short attention-spans. Pujara looks a class player - and like Kohli - I have no doubt he can translate the form abroad because they have good technique and guts. The sooner your idiotic heroes like Sehwag and Raina go away and the team is full of responsible, proper Test batsmen the better. The older players are a cancer on this progress of Indian cricket at the moment. Pujara was ready to come in a couple of years ago. And yet we persisted with Laxman's failures in England and Australia. Time to give youth a chance. But the 'right' youth. Not more Twenty20 idiots.

Did you consider the fact that Pujara was injured when those tours happened?

[Crookbond]

Did you consider the fact that Pujara was injured when those tours happened?

No - because he's just trolling around.

[vvvslaxman]

No surprise that there's little talk about Pujara's innings. Indians only care about cheap thrills and reckless Sehwag-like idiotic play because of the short attention-spans. Pujara looks a class player - and like Kohli - I have no doubt he can translate the form abroad because they have good technique and guts. The sooner your idiotic heroes like Sehwag and Raina go away and the team is full of responsible, proper Test batsmen the better. The older players are a cancer on this progress of Indian cricket at the moment. Pujara was ready to come in a couple of years ago. And yet we persisted with Laxman's failures in England and Australia. Time to give youth a chance. But the 'right' youth. Not more Twenty20 idiots.

:facepalm:

[tatters]

Did you consider the fact that Pujara was injured when those tours happened?

He wasn't for all of them. The bottom line was Dravid, Laxman (and now Tendulkar, Zaheer, Sehwag) have total immunity. They will continue to be selected until they retire. Thankfully Dravid and Laxman had the sense to retire when it was becoming embarrassing. But the fact remains that Pujara has been around for a long time since he impressed on tour in Australia and even accounting for injuries, hasn't been given a fair chance. We are seeing the same with Rahane now. Just because Sehwag got a century after 2 years in favourable conditions, his position is not questioned. Someone like Rahane can comfortably out-score a reckless idiot like Sehwag and a coward like Gambhir. There is no excuse for his absence. And what's worse is that there is no pressure about this - the Indian public love hero-worship. Certain people can do no wrong. It's disgusting to see.

[Number]

How many batsmen have scored 200 in their first 10 tests ? Kambli I remember.

[Sidhoni]

This guy is just fantastic :hatsoff: I am so annoyed at myself I couldn't watch today's play and missed his innings(after 98*).

[Yoda-esque]

Telegraph's suggestion to dismiss Pujara :hysterical: Cheteshwar Pujara New kid on the block for India, and a like-for-like replacement for Rahul Dravid, can bat for a long time and accumulate runs unobtrusively, as he does in Indian domestic cricket. The one thing he won’t have much experience of is serious pace. Steve Finn or Stuart Broad are likely to be deployed here to provide exactly that and see how he handles it, especially in the rib area. Otherwise the bowlers will just plug away outside off stump in traditional style. Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/cricket/international/england/9676349/India-v-England-Simon-Hughes-guide-on-how-to-get-hosts-top-six-batsmen-out.html

[vvvslaxman]

This guy is just fantastic :hatsoff: I am so annoyed at myself I couldn't watch today's play and missed his innings(after 98*).

I saw until lunch time. It is hard to stay awake every night and watch the match. I wish i had seen him get to his 200.

[Trichromatic]

How many batsmen have scored 200 in their first 10 tests ? Kambli I remember.

Sardesai in 14th match, Manjarekar in 8th match, Pataudi in 3rd match, Gavaskar in 4th match, Kambli in 3rd match,

[JaFanatic]

I just stopped reading there :hysterical::hysterical:

seriously! m not trolling

[Old guy]

seriously! m not trolling

that makes it even more funny :hysterical:

[rkt.india]

Telegraph's suggestion to dismiss Pujara :hysterical: Cheteshwar Pujara New kid on the block for India, and a like-for-like replacement for Rahul Dravid, can bat for a long time and accumulate runs unobtrusively, as he does in Indian domestic cricket. The one thing he wonÃÕ have much experience of is serious pace. Steve Finn or Stuart Broad are likely to be deployed here to provide exactly that and see how he handles it, especially in the rib area. Otherwise the bowlers will just plug away outside off stump in traditional style. Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/cricket/international/england/9676349/India-v-England-Simon-Hughes-guide-on-how-to-get-hosts-top-six-batsmen-out.html

Stuart Broad the trundler.:giggle: These guys dont have an inch of heart to bowl fast in these conditions.

[SLICKR392]

England look fragile - Pujara

Cheteshwar Pujara batted for 513 minutes for his unbeaten 206, which took England's ordeal in the field to 640 minutes, following which he saw England lose three wickets in a little over an hour. That has given him enough confidence to believe the match might not need to go into the fifth day. "It's going to be a challenging task for them," Pujara said when asked if he thought England could come back from here. "The way they were batting it looked like they were a fragile batting line-up for sure." The three England wickets have made everyone look at the pitch in a different light. "I think there's quite a lot of rough on the wicket and it's turning quite big," Pujara said. "The kind of momentum we got in these 18 overs I think we can bowl them out tomorrow. Obviously we'd like to finish the game before five days." After the first day Virender Sehwag had said the pitch was easy to bat on if you didn't play your shots. Pujara had a different take. "There is nothing wrong with the wicket," he said. "We've got three wickets, the ball is turning. We have utilised the conditions better than them." Even before the series began, Pujara had said he was comfortable against the England bowling. His quiet confidence only restated that belief. "I'd like to mention that it was good that I got out on 87 in the practice game," Pujara said. "If I had ended up scoring a hundred, I wouldn't have had the same motivation to score a hundred and then turn it into a double-hundred in this game. "I was comfortable facing all the bowlers. Initially my concern was Graeme Swann because I hadn't faced him before. But after I faced a couple of overs against him, I felt that I could manage." The result was his maiden double-century in Tests, but also Pujara's ninth 150-plus score of the 16 times he has reached 100 in first-class cricket. Nine of those 150-plus scores have come in his last 10 first-class centuries. He sounded proud of that habit. "I've done the same thing in domestic cricket," he said. "I never like to get out. There's always a price on my wicket. Even after scoring a double-hundred I never wanted to give away my wicket. That's the reason why I'm able to score big runs."

http://www.espncricinfo.com/india-v-england-2012/content/current/story/591609.html

[Magneto]

How many batsmen have scored 200 in their first 10 tests ? Kambli I remember.

Matthew Sinclair scored two.

[Sooda]

http://www.espncricinfo.com/india-v-england-2012/content/current/story/591609.html

Think this is slightly arrogant and disrespectful talk by Pujara, Eng have plenty of batting left... early days..

[cowboysfan]

Think this is slightly arrogant and disrespectful talk by Pujara' date=' Eng have plenty of batting left... early days..[/quote'] I dont see it that way.He is calling it like he everyone sees it.does anybody think England will force the game into the 5th day?