Lord’s: Pujara became the first Indian player to score three double centuries in the County Championship series.
The county championship series is going on in England. India’s Pujara is playing as the captain of the Sussex team in this. Sussex and Middlesex clash in a match at Lord’s, London. Pujara and Tom Aslop added 219 runs for the third wicket to the Sussex team in the first innings. Aslab made 135, Pujara hit a double century.
Pujara, who batted for 9 hours the day after the heat was recorded in London, scored 231 runs off 403 balls. This is Pujara’s 16th double century in first-class cricket. Sussex scored 523 runs in the first innings. The Middlesucks team, which came out later, scored 182/4 in the first innings.
New record
This is Pujara’s third double century for Sussex this season (203, 201, 231). Pujara then became the Indian player with the most double centuries in county cricket. Before this, Mohammad Azhar (212 in 1991, 205 in 1994) had scored the double century twice.
* In the last 10 innings, Pujara scored 5 centuries and scored more than 150 runs 4 times. He has accumulated 997 runs (average 124.62 runs) in this season alone.
* Pujara became the first player to score a double century in 125 years against Middlesbrough at Lord’s. Earlier India’s Ranjit Singhji had scored a double century for Sussex.
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