‘India ka Sankatmochan’ – Fans react as Cheteshwar Pujara scores hard-fought fifty in 3rd BGT Test against Australia

India is currently locking horns against Australia in the third Test of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy at the Holkar Cricket, Indore. The hosts, currently, lead the four-match Test series 2-0. Indian skipper, Rohit Sharma won the toss and elected to bowl first. India made two changes on their side. They brought in Shubman Gill and Umesh Yadav in place of KL Rahul and Mohammad Shami, respectively.

On the other hand, the visitors are without the likes of their regular skipper Pat Cummins, who has missed the third Test due to family problems. Steve Smith is leading the team in his absence. Left-arm seamer Mitchell Starc has replaced his captain and Cameron Green has come in place of David Warner.

On Day two of the first session, India made a comeback, and within two hours, India bundled out the Kangaroos under 200. The star performer with the ball was right-arm seamer Umesh Yadav, whose reverse swing troubled Australia’s middle and lower order.

Cheteshwar Pujara scores crucial 59

Australia were able to score only 197 runs and they lost the last six wickets for a mere addition of 12 runs. The top scorer for the Australian side was their opener Usman Khawaja, who scored 60 runs off 147 balls with four boundaries. For the hosts, the pick of the bowlers was Ravindra Jadeja with four wickets, Ravichandran Ashwin, who bagged three wickets and Umesh grabbed three wickets.

Batting for the second time, India again started to struggle against the Australian bowlers and were able to score only 163 runs and gave a target of 76 runs to the opponent. The poor form with the bat the senior player continued. The likes of Rohit Sharma and Shreyas Iyer scored only 12 runs and 26 runs, respectively and on the other hand, former India skipper Virat Kohli was able to score only 13 runs.

The Indian wickets kept falling from one end but the star Indian batter, Cheteshwar Pujara was a lone warrior there on the crease with his sword. He scored a total of 59 runs off 142 balls, with five boundaries and a six. For the visitors, the pick of the bowlers was their veteran off-spinner Nathan Lyon who took eight wickets in his spell of 23.3 overs in which he conceded only 64 runs. One-One wicket each was snapped by Mitchell Starc and Matthew  Kuhnemann.

Here’s how fans reacted to Cheteshwar Pujara’s innings:

Fighter🔥🔥🔥🤙

— JAYx7D (@jayparekh2108) March 2, 2023

A true great test batsman

— $arcastic_honey (@thesarcastic98) March 2, 2023

🔥

— Raju (@raju_tangella77) March 2, 2023

There is no doubt in Pujaras batting ability but we should now look beyond him.

— Uday kumar (@uday0078) March 2, 2023

Better than kohli

— Mittansh Panwar (@Mittansh_op) March 2, 2023

Hope to see Pujara bat for rest of the time pic.twitter.com/toXYM1ZZgc

— The new Bharat Army (@vaspar78) March 2, 2023

🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳

— Abhishek Choure (@Abhishek_270200) March 2, 2023

Pujara is the new wall. what do you think?

— Anuj Rekhy 🇮🇳|अनुज| అనుజ్ (@RobustRevolt) March 2, 2023

Impactful innings at crucial time!

— Praveen🇮🇳 (@kpraveenca) March 2, 2023

India ka Sankatmochan

— Cric Wizard (@CricWizz_13579) March 2, 2023