It was a memorable day for the entire Pujara family as India 's number three Cheteshwar Pujara reached his second successive and his ninth hundred in Test format on Friday, that too in his first innings as an Indian Test batsman at his hometown, Rajkot.
Considering the match situation, it was a significant knock in many ways. India were 47 for 1 when the local boy Pujara came into the crease and along with Murali Vijay, played almost a match saving innings.
Meanwhile, during the course of that 124-run innings, Pujara scored his runs with on an impressive rate of almost 61 runs per 100 balls, which can be considered as a fitting reply to recent criticisms on his so called poor strike-rate.
However, how much does strike-rate matter for a batsman in Test cricket?
Well, according to Arvind Pujara, the father of Cheteshwar and a former First-Class cricketer of Saurashtra, more than strike-rate, batting according to match situation is …show more content…
Kumble has given him all the freedom to bat at his own way and in the post-match press conference the centurion Pujara admitted this.
"Especially in the last series [against New Zealand], what Anil bhai [Anil Kumble] told me is just to work on my intent. He mentioned that I had been batting really well and didn 't have to worry about my strike-rate. What he felt was that I was scoring runs in domestic cricket and it was time that I convert those 70s, 80s into big 100s. The way I 've been batting, he told me that you don 't need to worry anything about your batting or strike rate, you just have the same intent which you have in domestic cricket and things will work for you," he mentioned.
Meanwhile, this was the first time the senior Pujara had watched Cheteshwar playing for the country live from the stadium. But personally for him watching on a television is much more convenient for him as over there he can watch all the match analysis and
Considering the match situation, it was a significant knock in many ways. India were 47 for 1 when the local boy Pujara came into the crease and along with Murali Vijay, played almost a match saving innings.
Meanwhile, during the course of that 124-run innings, Pujara scored his runs with on an impressive rate of almost 61 runs per 100 balls, which can be considered as a fitting reply to recent criticisms on his so called poor strike-rate.
However, how much does strike-rate matter for a batsman in Test cricket?
Well, according to Arvind Pujara, the father of Cheteshwar and a former First-Class cricketer of Saurashtra, more than strike-rate, batting according to match situation is …show more content…
Kumble has given him all the freedom to bat at his own way and in the post-match press conference the centurion Pujara admitted this.
"Especially in the last series [against New Zealand], what Anil bhai [Anil Kumble] told me is just to work on my intent. He mentioned that I had been batting really well and didn 't have to worry about my strike-rate. What he felt was that I was scoring runs in domestic cricket and it was time that I convert those 70s, 80s into big 100s. The way I 've been batting, he told me that you don 't need to worry anything about your batting or strike rate, you just have the same intent which you have in domestic cricket and things will work for you," he mentioned.
Meanwhile, this was the first time the senior Pujara had watched Cheteshwar playing for the country live from the stadium. But personally for him watching on a television is much more convenient for him as over there he can watch all the match analysis and