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Ranchi: Wriddhiman Saha on Sunday rated his knock of 117 as the best among the three tons he has scored in Test cricket so far.<\/p>\nRanchi: Wriddhiman Saha on Sunday rated his knock of 117 as the best among the three tons he has scored in Test cricket so far.<\/p>\n
Saha, who took 233 deliveries to get to the landmark, was involved in a 199-run seventh-wicket partnership with Cheteshwar Pujara (202 off 525 balls) as India declared their first innings at a mammoth 603\/9 to take a 152-run lead over Australia who had scored 451 in the first innings.<\/p>\n
At stumps on the fourth day of the third Test, the tourists were reduced to 23\/2 with the lead cut down to 129 runs.<\/p>\n
“This is the best among the three I have,” Saha told reporters here about his century knock.<\/p>\n
“We badly needed a partnership. My partnership began slowly and then he made 200 and I got my century,” the Bengal wicket-keeper added.<\/p>\n
Asked if he feels like an improved batsman now, Saha said he has not changed anything as such and backed himself more.<\/p>\n
“I didn’t really change the way I batted. I’m backing myself more now. When I’m playing sweep shots or stepping out, I used to have doubts early in my career. Now the team is supporting me. It has a good effect on me,” he added.<\/p>\n
Pujara, Saha said, showed great patience by curtailing his shots and holding fort from one end.<\/p>\n
“Puji has so much patience. He scores 200-300 in domestic cricket almost routinely. He is always on the top of his game. He showed great patience here,” the Bengal stumper said.<\/p>\n
“He was losing partners at the other end, and we were not getting really big partnerships. He curtailed his shots, trying to build big partnerships.”<\/p>\n
About his verbal exchanges with Australian pacer Josh Hazlewood, Saha said, “A little banter always goes on. Pujara was telling him ‘Look at the scoreboard’. He was on 180-odd then. They said something to me as well, I just said ‘Go back and bowl’. Nothing more than that.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Ranchi: Wriddhiman Saha on Sunday rated his knock of 117 as the best among the three tons he has scored in Test cricket so far.<\/p>\n
Saha, who took 233 deliveries to get to the landmark, was involved in a 199-run seventh-wicket partnership with Cheteshwar Pujara (202 off 525 balls) as India declared their first innings at a mammoth 603\/9 to take a 152-run lead over Australia who had scored 451 in the first innings.<\/p>\n
At stumps on the fourth day of the third Test, the tourists were reduced to 23\/2 with the lead cut down to 129 runs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32556,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[1275,4744,19523,466,709],"class_list":["post-33956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket-cricket","tag-cheteshwar-pujara","tag-cricket-news","tag-india-vs-australia-test","tag-indian-sports-news","tag-wriddhiman-saha"],"yoast_head":"\n