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Tag: Hazari

  • Pujara can become six thousand in Australia

    Cheteshwar, the most trusted batsman in the current Indian Test team, can become six thousand against Australia in the four-Test series starting in Adelaide from 17 December. Pujara, 32, has scored 5840 runs in 77 Tests at an average of 48.66 which includes 18 centuries and 25 half-centuries. He needs only 160 runs to complete six thousand runs in Test cricket. Pujara, better known as Mr. Trusty, played his last Test in Christchurch against New Zealand in February-March this year. After this, he remained out of the cricket field due to Corona for more than eight months.

    He was not part of any team in the IPL in the UAE and reached Dubai in the last leg of the IPL so that after the end of the tournament, he could go straight to Australia with the remaining players. Former Australian fast bowler Glenn McGrath says that Pujara has been out of the field for a long time so this time he may have to struggle to score runs on Australian pitches. Pujara was the most successful in the previous Australian tour of 2018-19 and played an important role in winning the series 2–1 to India.

    In the last tour, Pujara scored 521 runs in four Tests with the help of three centuries and a half-century, which was the highest among the players of both teams. After him, Rishabh Pant, who was second, had 350 runs and captain Virat Kohli had 282 runs. These figures can be gauged by how dependent the Indian team is on Pujara in terms of batting. Although Pujara has expressed confidence that he has been out of the ground, but he will return to his rhythm from practice before the series.

    Pujara will have more responsibility during this series as captain Virat will return home after playing the first Test in Adelaide. If Pujara achieves this feat, he will become the 11th Indian to score 6000 runs in Test cricket. This time ahead of them, Gundappa Vishwanath (6080), Mohammad Azharuddin (6215), Dilip Vengsarkar (6868), Saurabh Ganguly (7212), Virat Kohli (7240), Virender Sehwag (8503), VVS Laxman (8781), Sunil Gavaskar (10122) ), Rahul Dravid (13265) and Sachin Tendulkar (15921).

  • Virat Kohli will become the fastest 12 ODI player

    One-day international cricket Indian captain and run machine Virat Kohli, who has spent more than 12 years, can become the fastest 12 thousand in a three-match ODI series against Australia and break the record of cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar.

    For Virat, the tour against Australia starting on 27 November is going to prove personally important in many ways. India has to play three ODIs, three T20s and four Tests in this tour. However, Virat will return home after playing the first match of the Test series as his wife Anushka Sharma is going to give birth to his first child in early January.

    The Indian captain is considered to be the most potent contender to break Sachin’s record. Virat will have the chance to make the fastest 12 thousand in ODI series. He is just 133 runs away from this achievement. In this series of three matches, Virat can achieve this feat. After scoring 133 runs in the series, Virat will become the sixth player in the world to reach the peak of 12 thousand runs in ODIs.

    Virat will also have a chance to make the fastest 12 Hazari in ODIs and in this case he can break the record of Master Blaster Sachin. Sachin played 300 innings to reach 12 thousand runs and took 13 years and 73 days. Virat currently has 11867 runs from 248 matches and has played 239 innings. Virat started his ODI career on 18 August 2008 and he has been in ODI cricket for more than 12 years. On this basis, he can break both Sachin’s innings and time records.