{"id":5499,"date":"2023-02-19T15:30:59","date_gmt":"2023-02-19T10:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=281285"},"modified":"2023-02-19T17:59:36","modified_gmt":"2023-02-19T12:29:36","slug":"ind-vs-aus-cheteshwar-pujara-honoured-with-australian-jersey-after-playing-his-100th-test-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/ind-vs-aus-cheteshwar-pujara-honoured-with-australian-jersey-after-playing-his-100th-test-match\/","title":{"rendered":"IND vs AUS: Cheteshwar Pujara honoured with Australian jersey after playing his 100th Test match"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Indian batsman Cheteshwar Pujara was honoured following the conclusion of the second test after the Australian captain\u2019s incredible gesture of giving Pujara a signed jersey of team Australia made both countries\u2019 supporters happy.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Spirit of Cricket \ud83d\udc4f\ud83c\udffb\ud83d\udc4f\ud83c\udffb<\/p>\n<p>Pat Cummins \ud83e\udd1d Cheteshwar Pujara <\/p>\n<p>What a special gesture that was! \ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddf3\ud83c\udde6\ud83c\uddfa<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TeamIndia?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#TeamIndia<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/INDvAUS?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#INDvAUS<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3MNcxfhoIQ\">pic.twitter.com\/3MNcxfhoIQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 BCCI (@BCCI) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BCCI\/status\/1627238789663031298?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 19, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Indian and Australian players presented India batter Cheteshwar Pujara with a Guard of Honour. As Pujara entered the field, the players cheered for him and gave him a standing ovation. The legendary Sunil Gavaskar honoured the veteran Indian batter prior to the game for his numerous memorable match-saving innings for India.<\/p>\n<p>Team India made the same gesture in consideration when Australian spinner Nathan Lyon was participating in his 100th Test match.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Talking about the 2nd Test \u2013\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Another three day Test and once again Australia losing with an embarrassing performance. Australia elected to bat first to start the Test, and Usman Khawaja came in to bat after the first Test\u2019s failure. While Smith and Labuschagne experienced a rare failure, he was supported by Handscomb. In the opening innings, Mo Shami had four picks, while Ashwin and Jadeja each had three. India\u2019s response was shaky as KL Rahul\u2019s rough patch persisted and the majority of their top-order had trouble scoring runs. At 139\/7, they were in trouble, but Axar and Ashwin provided the rearguard, cutting the lead to just one run.<\/p>\n<p>At the beginning of day three, Australia was 61-1 and optimistic about carrying on its batting counterattack from the previous evening. The visitors only lasted 19.1 overs on day three\u2019s morning as Jadeja and Ravichandran Ashwin claimed all ten wickets, but it was the Indian spinners who went berserk. India was 14-1 at lunch, needing to win by 115 runs, with Cheteshwar Pujara (1 not out) and Rohit Sharma at the crease.<\/p>\n<p>As Australia crumbled for a paltry score of 113, he finished with figures that were career highs of 7\/42. India struggled during the chase as Rohit ran himself out and Rahul was dismissed cheaply. KS Bharat added the finishing touches with his unbeaten cameo of 23, but Pujara held the line from one end despite Kohli and Iyer losing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian batsman Cheteshwar Pujara was honoured following the conclusion of the second test after the Australian captain\u2019s incredible gesture of\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":28443,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3515,607,3423],"class_list":["post-5499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-bgt23","tag-pat-cummins","tag-pujara"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}