Watch: Australia captain Steve Smith pulls out stunning catch to dismiss Cheteshwar Pujara in Indore Test

Team India is currently locking horns with Australia in the Third Test of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy at Holkar Stadium in Indore. India got bowled out for the second time within two days after setting 75 runs target for the Aussies. After bundling up Australia for 197 runs India scored only 163 runs in the second innings. When all other Indian batters were struggling against spin veteran batter Cheteshwar Pujara played an amazing inning to help the team.

When Pujara’s eighth wicket partnership with Axar Patel for 15 runs off 50 balls had just started to ring alarm bells in the Australian camp when Steve Smith took a spectacular catch to get rid of him. In the 59th over of India’s second innings, Nathan Lyon pitched the third ball around the leg stump. Pujara tried to push it towards the fine leg but failed to do so as the ball took the fine edge and went towards Smith.
Smith put in a low dive to his right and caught the ball with his outstretched right hand with almost no reaction time.

Watch Steve Smith’s spectacular catch: 

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Pujara tried hard to rescue India

India after getting bowled out for cheap in the first innings bundled up Australia soon on Day 2. Australia got a good lead of 87 runs in the first innings. In the second innings Indian top order once again failed to capitalize on spinners and got exposed soon. India lost Shubman Gill, Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, and Ravindra Jadeja very soon.

Ravichandran Ashwin, wicketkeeper KS Bharat also failed to build a partnership with Cheteshwar Pujara who held one end and was looking great. Pujara formed partnerships with as many as seven Indian batters to assist India set Australia a 75-run total on a blazing rank turner in Indore. The 35-year-old scored his fifty off 108 balls and continued to hold one end for India.