Australia have claimed their closing revenge on India’s brickwall Cheteshwar Pujara, possible ending the Test profession of the person who thwarted them in 4 separate sequence.
Pujara has been dropped from India’s Test squad for his or her two-Test sequence towards West Indies, with Ajinkya Rahane to take over as vice-captain.
The 35-year-old’s axing comes after a run of low scores towards Australia, who he has averaged 25.85 towards in 5 Tests in 2023.
Pujara handed 50 as soon as in six innings within the house Border-Gavaskar Trophy sequence earlier this yr, earlier than scores of 14 and 27 within the World Test Championship closing.
His dip in kind comes after years of being the primary resistance for India towards Australia, courting again to his double-century at Hyderabad in 2013.
He scored one other double-ton towards Australia in Ranchi in 2017 to disclaim Australia an opportunity to retain the Border-Gavaskar Trophy.
Then in 2018-19 he batted for greater than 22 hours and averaged 74.42 throughout 4 Tests in Australia to assist India declare a historic sequence win.
So huge was his efficiency, the 1258 balls he confronted was double that of any Australian as he introduced up centuries in Adelaide, Melbourne and Sydney.
By that time, Australian cricket was left questioning who their Pujara-type participant was.
Pujara additionally batted for greater than 9 hours on the SCG alone in 2020-21 to disclaim Australia a win, earlier than scoring an important half-century of their huge chase in Brisbane.
India’s gamers had backed Pujara throughout the newest World Test Championship closing, nevertheless he now faces an extended highway again so as to add to his 103 Tests.
It’s additionally possible Australia have confronted him for the final time, with India set to tour Australia in 2024-25.
INDIA TEST SQUAD: Rohit Sharma (capt), Shubman Gill, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Virat Kohli, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Ajinkya Rahane (vice-capt), KS Bharat (wk), Ishan Kishan (wk), Ravichandran Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Shardul Thakur, Axar Patel, Mohammed Siraj, Mukesh Kumar, Jaydev Unadkat, Navdeep Saini.
Source: www.perthnow.com.au
