Cheteshwar Pujara will probably be enjoying his one centesimal Check when Group India will get right down to motion within the second match of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy in opposition to Australia that begins in Delhi on Friday. For the veteran India batter it is a momentous event. Whereas describing Pujara’s recreation in a column for a cricket web site, veteran India spinner Ravichandran Ashwin payed wealthy compliments to former India opener Murali Vijay. The veteran opener lately retired, after enjoying 61 Exams (3982 runs), 17 ODIs (339 runs), 9 T20Is (169 runs).

Ashwin mentioned that Vijay, based on him is the best Indian opener exterior Sunil Gavaskar and Virender Sehwag.

“Throughout all these years of figuring out him (Pujara), I’ve learnt that his recreation is simply an extension of his persona. And his persona is cussed. You simply cannot win an argument with him. He by no means concedes a degree. I take pleasure in seeing his cussed facet, so I attempt to lead him into arguments whereas others round say, “Ash, you recognize you aren’t going to win,” Ashwin wrote in a column for Cricinfo.

“M Vijay, based on me the best opener for India exterior of Sunil Gavaskar and Virender Sehwag, and Puji are fairly related in that they have not been celebrated sufficient. Additionally they had a number of the most hilarious arguments. They used to do probably the most tough job in Check cricket – play out the brand new ball in testing situations, as we have a tendency to wish to do at any time when we go overseas – so it’s par for the course to have a number of eccentricities emerge from that sort of partnership.”

The 38-year-old Vijay, days earlier than saying retirement, had mentioned that age is changing into a hindrance in getting alternatives in Indian cricket.

“I’m virtually carried out with BCCI (smiles) and I need to discover my methods overseas. Play little little bit of aggressive cricket,” Vijay advised WV Raman on Wednesdays with WV, a weekly present on Sportstar.

“After 30 in India, it is a taboo (smiles). They see us as 80-year-olds strolling on avenue. I do not need to get into any controversy . The media must also handle it in a different way. I really feel you might be peaking in your 30s. Sitting right here proper now, I can bat the best way I bat now. However sadly or luckily, the alternatives are much less, and I’ve to seek for my alternatives exterior.”

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