Cheteshwar Pujara, Man Of The Season For India
Cricket Today|April 2017

The innings of 202 from Pujara off 525 deliveries is the longest innings an Indian has ever played in terms of balls faced. Pujara’s knock helped India overcome the mammoth 451 runs...

Ankit Mohapatra
Cheteshwar Pujara, Man Of The Season For India

Refresh your memories and swing it back to day 3 and 4 of the penultimate test match against Australia. You’d be forgiven if you switched off your televisions saying to yourself “this is boring”. In this era, you’d be forgiven if you wanted to have a couple of tickets to a Coldplay concert rather than classical music. Because that’s more attractive. And that will always be. But for those who love to watch a man earn his respect through sheer hard work and gritty defiance, those two days of test cricket couldn’t have been better.

This story is from the April 2017 edition of Cricket Today.

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