He falls on the off side… Team India knew his weakness, Pujara told where the mistake was made against the head.

New Delhi. Cheteshwar Pujara strongly criticized the strategy of the Indian team against Travis Head. Pujara said that Team India knew very well where Travis Head was weak. Still, our bowlers failed to bowl short pitch balls against him. Pujara criticized the Indian bowlers for giving Head the opportunity to score runs by bowling in his preferred off side. Left-handed batsman Head scored 140 runs in 141 balls, due to which Australia was successful in taking a lead of 157 runs in the first innings. In response, India has scored 128 runs for five wickets in its second innings by the end of the second day’s play and is still 29 runs behind Australia.

Cheteshwar Pujara told Star Sports after the end of the day’s play, ‘Travis Head’s weakness is short-pitched balls, which the opposition team knows very well. We saw that he was bowled only two-three short pitched balls. They (Indian fast bowlers) could have used it better. After taking a big lead in the first innings with an aggressive century by Travis Head (140), Australia staked its claim on the match by taking India’s 5 wickets for 128 runs in the second innings on the second day of the second test match of the five-match Border-Gavaskar Trophy. Got stronger.

Siraj was booed in Adelaide… Indian pacer became the villain in the celebration of local boy, Travis Head broke his silence on anger

Good news for Team India… Shami may leave for Australia soon, will play the last 2 tests

Head hit 17 fours and 4 sixes
Head, who batted consistently well against India, did not allow the bowlers to dominate by hitting 17 fours and four sixes in his 141-ball innings. After Head’s innings, the trio of Pat Cummins (33/2), Scott Boland (39/2) and Mitchell Starc (49/1) took India’s lead with excellent line-length bowling near the off stump in this pink ball Test match. No batsman was given a chance to stay at the crease for long. India will have to score 29 more runs to force Australia to bat in the second innings. Rishabh Pant (28) and Nitish Kumar Reddy (15) were present at the crease at the time of stumps.

‘We needed to curb that’
According to Cheteshwar Pujara, ‘He (Travis Hay) plays dominatingly on the off side and we needed to control him. It would have been a better strategy for him to put five fielders instead of six on the off side. Head completed his eighth Test century of his career in 111 balls, which is the fastest century in a pink ball Test. Due to the brilliant batting of him and Marnus Labuschagne (64), Australia scored 337 runs and took a lead of 157 runs in reply to India’s 180 runs in the first innings. Head swung the bat in his lap after scoring a century. He became a father for the second time just a month ago. His wife was present at the Adelaide Stadium with her son in her lap.

Tags: Cheteshwar Pujara, IND vs OFF, India vs Australia, Travis Head