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Wednesday, January 2, 2019

Cheteshwar Pujara Scores Ton Vs Australia @ SCG Thursday Jan 03,2019

Day One Thursday Australi Vs India 4th Test @ SCG Thursday Jan 03,2019

Cheteshwar Pujara brings up his century with a four down the fine-leg off Mitchell Starc

Third hundred for Cheteshwar Pujara in this series. Just continued in the same vein as Adelaide(Frst Test) and Melbourne(Third Test)

Cheteshwar Pujara's centuries in this series,
Adelaide - off 231 balls
Melbourne - off 280 balls
Sydney - off 199 balls

Pujara is the fifth India batsman to slam a hundred in Boxing Day Test @ MCG after Sachin Tendulkar (1996), Virender Sehwag (2003), Virat Kohli(2014) and Ajinkya Rahane (2014).

Asian batsmen with most centuries in a Test series in Australia:
4 - Virat Kohli, 2014/15
3 - Sunil Gavaskar, 1977/78
3 - Cheteshwar Pujara, 2018/19*
Most centuries by Indians in Tests in Australia:
6 - Virat Kohli, Sachin Tendulkar
5 - Sunil Gavaskar
4 - VVS Laxman
3 - Cheteshwar Pujara*
This is Cheteshwar Pujara's 18th Test century. He now goes past Dilip Vengsarkar (17) and VVS Laxman (17) in the list of Indians with most centuries in Test cricket.
Fastest Indian to 18 Test tons: (By innings)
82 - Sunil Gavaskar
99 - Sachin Tendulkar
103 - Virat Kohli
114 - Cheteshwar Pujara*
121 - Mohammad Azharuddin
126 - Virender Sehwag
146 - Rahul Dravid

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