The skipper mentioned that playing on difficult pitches demands batters to be brave in with their stay on the crease while also crediting Nathan Lyon for his tenacity to keep hitting the right length throughout the Test.
India could only bat for 60.3 overs in the second innings of the third Test, with Pujara waging a lone battle for the hosts before a rampant Nathan Lyon took eight wickets for just 64 runs.
Team India is in a spot of bother as they have lost four wickets for 79 runs in second innings going into Tea trailing Australia by 9 runs with six wickets in hand here at the Holkar Cricket Stadium. Cheteshwar Pujara fights a lone battle for India batting on 36.
Ravichandran Ashwin and Umesh Yadav bagged three wickets each on day-2 to bowl out Australia for 197 runs in the first innings allowing them to take an 88-run lead here at the Holkar Cricket Stadium.
Ashwin claims the top spot among bowlers after taking six wickets in his most recent performance, in India's emphatic victory over Australia in the second Test, with Anderson dropping to second place after England's stunning loss to New Zealand in the Wellington Test.
New Zealand completed a big turnaround on the Day-5 of the second test match. Neil Wagner picked up 4 wickets to shift the momentum towards New Zealand in the game's final hours. He broke the crucial partnership between Joe Root and Ben Stokes by picking up the wicket of Ben Stokes.
In 141 ODIs, Katherine scored 1,090 runs at an average of 18.16, with two fifties. She also has 170 wickets in the format with the best figures of 5/18. She also has 590 T20I runs in 112 matches, with the best score of 42*. Katherine has 114 wickets in the shorter format
England continues dominating New Zealand on the second test match's second day. England lost a couple of wickets early but Joe Root continued to maintain the scoring rate. Stokes decided to declare at 435/8. New Zealand lost three wickets quickly and at the end of Day 2 Tom Blundell and Tim
Hailing from Agra, Deepti was among the most wanted Indian players at the Auction. The 25-year-old, who is a crucial part of the Indian women's team set-up, is one of the few players from the country to have turned out in franchise tournaments outside India. Deepti, who has bagged 6 wickets
The left-arm bowler is the leading wicket-taker in the Border-Gavaskar series with 17 wickets from the two Tests and has galloped to the ninth spot in the bowler rankings