Pujara makes the case for defence
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Unless it is really hard."If the best batsmen were choosing this game, who was going to take over from the likes of Alastair Cook, Rahul Dravid, Sachin Tendulkar even - he tallied 1591 runs in innings where he made two runs per three balls (strike rate of 66.77), as against, say, Kohli's 2277? As things stand at stumps on the first day of the last Test of the series, Pujara has faced 1135 balls, and has spent a little under 30 hours at the crease.Among visiting batsmen who have played four Tests or under in a series in Australia, only Rahul Dravid and Herbert Sutcliffe have faced more balls. Dravid did so against a pretty average attack on flat pitches in 2003-04, Kohli will himself concede he scored runs on much flatter pitches in Australia on the last trip; Pujara has three hundreds against a much better attack in difficult and varying conditions.
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