Pujara third Indian to bat on all five days of a Test

Wednesday 22nd November 2017 06:12 EST
 
 

Cheteshwar Pujara on Monday became the third ever Indian batsman to bat on all five days of a test. Pujara came in to bat after the KL Rahul was dismissed off the first delivery of the match on Day 1 and under testing conditions, with rain and bad light playing spoilsport, top-scored for India with 52 off 117 - a knock stretched across three days.

Then when Shikhar Dhawan departed after a breezy 94 off 116, he walked in to bat late in on Day 4 before returning unbeaten on two. Then, on Monday morning, he resumed the India innings with Rahul who had also left behind the disappointment of a first-ball duck with a classy 73. Before Pujara, two Indians - ML Jaisimha and current India coach Ravi Shastri - have had the rare distinction to have batted on all five days. While Jaisimha did it against Australia in 1960, scoring 20* and 74, Shastri entered the club in 1984 against England scoring 111 and 7*.

List of batsmen to have batted on all five days

ML Jaisimha (India)

Geoffrey Boycott (England)

Kim Hughes (Australia)

Allan Lamb (England)

Ravi Shastri (India)

Adrian Griffith (West Indies)

Andrew Flintoff (England)

Cheteshwar Pujara (India)


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