Cheteshwar Pujara India vs Australia Indore: The third match of the Test series between India and Australia is being played in Indore. Team India gave Australia a target of 76 runs to win on Thursday, the second day of the match. Team India was all out on a score of 163 runs in the second innings.
Cheteshwar Pujara became the victim of Nathan Lyon twice in this match. With this, Lyon made a remarkable record in his name. He has become the bowler who dismissed Pujara the most times in Tests.
Pujara got out after scoring just one run in the first innings. Lyon bowled him. After this, he scored a half-century in the second innings. Pujara faced 142 balls and hit five fours and a six. In this way, he scored 59 runs. After this, Steve Smith was caught by Lyon’s ball. Lyon dismissed Pujara the most times in the Test format. Pujara is at the top of the list of Indian players regarding the most dismissals by a single bowler.
Anderson is in second place after Lyon. Anderson has dismissed Pujara 12 times in Tests. In this case, Underwood is also jointly in second place. He has denied Sunil Gavaskar 12 times. Michael Holding and Imran Khan have dismissed Gavaskar 11 times.
In the Indore Test, India scored 109 runs in the first innings and 163 runs in the second innings. In response, Australia scored 197 runs in the first innings. Now the team will enter the field to play the second innings.
Most number of dismissals by an Indian player against a single bowler in the Test format
- Pujara vs Nathan Lyon – 13
- Pujara vs James Anderson – 12
- Gavaskar vs Underwood – 12
- Gavaskar vs Holding – 11
- Gavaskar vs Imran Khan – 11
