Cheteshwar Pujara: Cheteshwar Pujara as soon as once more surprised everybody along with his elegant class within the present season of County Championship. Making his captaincy debut for Sussex, he scored a double century in opposition to Middlesex on Wednesday. This is the fifth century of India’s legendary Test cricketer within the seventh match of this county season.

Great partnership between Pujara-Alsop

In the primary match, when Cheteshwar Pujara, captaining Sussex, got here out to bat at quantity 4, his staff had misplaced two wickets for 99 runs. From right here he, together with Tom Alsop, not solely pulled the staff out of a tough state of affairs, but additionally put it in a powerful place. There was a 219-run partnership between Pujara and Alsop for the third wicket. Alsop scored 135 runs in 277 balls with the assistance of 15 fours.

Pujara scored a double century on his captaincy debut

After this, Archie Lenham was dismissed with out opening the account inside three balls however Pujara continued to fortify his staff.

This Indian batsman from Saurashtra scored 231 runs in 403 balls at a median of 57.32. The particular factor is that his innings included three sixes with 21 fours. In this match, Pujara was the final batsman to be dismissed for his staff. On the premise of this classical Indian batsman, Sussex made a powerful rating of 523 runs in opposition to Middlesex.

In this match, other than the century innings of Tom Alsop and Cheteshwar Pujara, no different batsman of the staff may even contact the 40-run mark.

Prior to this match in opposition to Middlesex, Pujara was made the captain of Sussex as a result of damage of normal captain Tom Haynes. Haynes will be unable to return to the cricket subject for not less than 5 to 6 weeks resulting from damage.

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