AUS vs IND third Test Live: Cheteshwar Pujara turns into sixth quickest Indian to attain 6000 Test runs
1 min read Image Source : GETTY IMAGES Cheteshwar Pujara bats throughout day 5 of the third Test match within the collection between Australia and India at Sydney Cricket Ground on Monday.
Cheteshwar Pujara continued his good type within the ongoing Australia-India Test collection together with his third fifty of the tour; changing into the eleventh Indian to breach the 6,000-run mark in Test cricket.
Pujara, who’s having an important fourth-wicket partnership with Rishabh Pant of their sizzling pursuit to chase down 407-run document goal on the ultimate day of the Sydney Test, reached the milestone simply earlier than reaching his twenty seventh Test fifty.
He additionally turned the sixth-fastest Indian after Sunil Gavaskar (117 innings), Virat Kohli (119), Sachin Tendulkar (120), Virender Sehwag (123) and Rahul Dravid (125) to hitch the elite membership in 134 innings.
The 5 different Indian batsmen, who’ve 6000-plus runs in Test cricket are VVS Laxman, Sourav Ganguly, Dilip Vengsarkar, Mohammad Azharuddin, and Gundappa Viswanath.
It’s value stating that Pujara hasn’t scored a Test century in final 18 innings together with his final coming in opposition to the identical outfit on the SCG in January 2019.
