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August 16, 2021 England / India

It didn’t rain, it was just Cheteshwar Pujara

2 minute read Much is said about Cheteshwar Pujara – we’ve written a lot ourself – but we’re not sure anyone’s ever talked about his ability to persuade you that it rained when it didn’t. The way it went down was like this. Late afternoon we got a message from King Cricket reader

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August 5, 2021 England / India

Jimmy Anderson wicket celebration analysis: Pujara 4 v Kohli 0

3 minute read James Anderson took two wickets in his 11th over of the first Test: Cheteshwar Pujara for 4 and Virat Kohli for 0. Both are great and significant batsmen and if our maths is correct – and no guarantees on this one, people – there is only a four-run difference between

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January 20, 2021 Australia / India

Three things India needed for The Storming of the Gabba

4 minute read To storm a fortress you need three things: numbers, a tenderiser and at least one person who is not averse to progress. This is the story of how India took the Gabba. Not all fortresses are hard to take. England turned up at a fort earlier this week and were

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January 11, 2021 Australia / India

The autopilot: Why Cheteshwar Pujara is unconsciously exceptional

5 minute read Please can we tell you why Cheteshwar Pujara is so special. It’s too do with how little he thinks. Most of us are waging a war against conscious thought at the moment. Holed up with the same people we’ve been cooped up with for most of the last year, good

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March 8, 2017 Australia / India

The India players have started faking injuries

< 1 minute read Pat Farhart news! About time. It’s been almost a decade. Farhart is of course the physio who not-all-that-famously helped Australia spinner Beau Casson’s groin “respond”. He hasn’t got down to any of that sort of business with India yet, but he’s working towards it. Mark our words. He’s giving neck

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October 2, 2016 India

Is Virat Kohli really India’s best batsman?

2 minute read Were he to find himself playing in a format-spanning Super Series, it would seem highly likely that Virat Kohli could find himself named man-of-it. The guy averages over 50 in the two shorter formats with a perfectly healthy strike-rate in both. His Test record’s very good too: 12 Test hundreds

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November 16, 2012 England / India

Cheteshwar Pujara brings a future of runs

2 minute read The Wall is gone! Long live this broad, robust replacement structure made out of bricks and mortar! The retirement of great cricketers often leaves less of a hole than people imagine. Rahul Dravid and VVS Laxman recently left the game and many wondered how they could ever be replaced. The

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August 24, 2012 India

Cheteshwar Pujara shows India aren’t short of batsmen

< 1 minute read It’s both sad and joyous that life moves on. Rahul Dravid and VVS Laxman are gone, never to return, but that’s because they’re now middle-aged. Their best cricket is behind them and who wants to look forward to ever-lower high points. Far better to step into the unknown. Cheteshwar Pujara

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