Australian captain Pat Cummins presented a signed jersey to Cheteshwar Pujara to commemorate Pujara’s 100th Test appearance after the third day of the second Test at the Arun Jaitley Stadium in New Delhi on Sunday. India won this match by 6 wickets. Photo Credit: ANI
Australia captain Pat Cummins on Sunday presented Cheteshwar Pujara with a signed Test jersey of the Australian team to honor the Indian batsman who played his 100th Test.
After the bowlers bundled out the visitors for 113, Rohit Sharma, Shrikar Bharat and Cheteshwar Pujara helped India register a 6-wicket win against Australia in the second Test match of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy at the Arun Jaitley Stadium in Delhi. sunday.
The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) on Sunday posted a picture of the Australian captain presenting a signed jersey to Pujara. In his 100th Test, Pujara played the role of anchor, a role he is all too familiar with, scoring 31*. Intention-driven cameos by Shreyas Iyer (12 off 10) and Shrikar Bharat (23* off 22) helped India chase down the target in 26.4 overs. Pujara scored the winning runs. Coming into the match, India retained the Border-Gavaskar Trophy by taking a 2–0 lead in the four-match series. Pujara (31*) and Bharat (23*) played till the end to take their team home.
For India, Ravindra Jadeja crushed Australia by taking seven wickets for 42 runs. India struggled in their chase of 115 at times, but the score was not particularly threatening as Pujara’s unbeaten 31 powered the home team to victory. Resuming their innings at 14/1, India skipper Rohit Sharma in red-hot form thrashed the Australian bowlers around the ground as he collected 12 runs off Nathan Lyon’s over.
However, Rohit’s blistering performance at the crease came to an end as he was run out after scoring 31 runs off 20 balls. After this, Virat Kohli came out to bat at the crease with Cheteshwar Pujara. As Pujara continued to pile up singles at regular intervals, Kohli held one end firmly to become the fastest batsman to score 25,000 international runs. The former India skipper hit a boundary to take some of the pressure off the Indian team. Nathan Lyon bowls a short one but Virat Kohli plays it beautifully towards the backward square leg fence for a brilliant boundary in the 16th over of the innings. Todd Murphy then gave his team a major breakthrough as he dismissed dangerous Kohli for 20 runs. Right-handed batsman Shreyas Iyer then came out to bat and hit two beautiful big shots before Lyon lost his wicket for 12 runs at 10 runs.
Iyer’s wicket invited right-handed batsman Shrikar Bharat to the crease. Bharat changed gears as he smashed the Australian bowlers for boundaries. After 25 overs, India needed only 10 runs to win. Pujara, playing his historic 100th Test, took India home by taking six wickets in the second Test against Australia with a brilliant four off Murphy’s bowling. Australia were bundled out for 113 in the second innings of the ongoing second Test at Delhi’s Ferozeshah Kotla on Sunday, setting the hosts a target of 115 runs. At lunch, India were 14/1, with skipper Rohit Sharma (12*) and Cheteshwar Pujara (1*) at the crease. Australia resumed their innings at 61/1, with Travis Head 39*, Marnus Labuschagne 16* trying to build on the visitors’ lead.
Ashwin struck a dangerous header early in the session to score 43 off 46 balls for the hosts, reducing Australia to 65/2. The pair of Steve Smith and Marnus Labuschagne then propelled the innings, adding 20 more runs, before Ashwin sent back Smith for just 9 runs. Australia were 85/3 in 19 overs. Thereafter, Jadeja-Ashwin tore apart the rest of the Australian batting line-up, the ball staying low and drifting away from the surface. In the end the Australian team was bundled out for 113 runs in just 31.1 overs.
Only Head and Labuschagne could reach double digits. Jadeja took the bulk of the Australian wickets, ending with his Test career-best figures of 7/42 in 12.1 overs. Ashwin took 3/59 in 16 overs. Chasing 115, India lost KL Rahul for just 1 run, extending his lean patch in the red-ball format. Nathan Lyon got him caught out by wicketkeeper Alex Carey. Indian score becomes 6/1 in 1.1 overs. Rohit and Pujara then took India to lunch without further loss.