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IND vs AUS | Pujara has to determine play in opposition to Pat Cummins, says Zaheer Khan

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Image Source : AP India’s Cheteshwar Pujara
Australian speedster Pat Cummins having the higher hand over Indian batting mainstay Cheteshwar Pujara is an space of concern for India however it is usually symptomatic of batsmen discovering it troublesome to attain runs all through the collection, former quick bowler Zaheer Khan has mentioned.
Pujara, who scored 521 runs at a median of 74.42 on India’s earlier tour of Australia in 2018, has been dismissed three out of 4 occasions by Cummins within the first two Tests of the four-match collection. The batsman is but to attain a half-century.

“There is no doubt that it is a topic of concern. But it is similar to the way we were talking about Steve Smith, that he will get the feel, he said he found his grip in the one-dayers,” mentioned Zaheer on Sony Sports Network.
“He has to figure out that thing because it was the same attack against whom he had scored three centuries in the last series. Yes, the angle of Cummins’s deliveries are troubling him and somewhere or the other I feel this is form-related.”

Zaheer mentioned that Pujara could should rethink his set off motion and might be helped by revisiting the 2018/19 tour. “It could be the trigger movement; he might have to go back down memory lane and think about it. He just has to get that feel,” he mentioned.
“Yes, if Pat Cummins had not played in the previous series and not exploited his weakness like this, then it would have been a different thing but he has played him in the last series and scored centuries when he was there.”
Commentators have usually noticed that Pujara has been felled by extraordinarily good deliveries from Cummins, who’s the top-ranked Test bowler on the planet. Zaheer feels that it is just a matter of time earlier than the India’s Test batting stalwart comes good.
“I think it is a matter of time. We should see it from that viewpoint but at this moment, you can say that it has become a slight area of concern,” he mentioned.

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