Cheteshwar Pujara might be taking part in his a hundredth Test when Team India will get all the way down to motion within the second match of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy towards Australia that begins in Delhi on Friday. For the veteran India batter it is a momentous event. While 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 taking part in 61 Tests (3982 runs), 17 ODIs (339 runs), 9 T20Is (169 runs).

Ashwin mentioned that Vijay, in response to him is the best Indian opener outdoors Sunil Gavaskar and Virender Sehwag.

“During all these years of knowing him (Pujara), I have learnt that his game is just an extension of his personality. And his personality is stubborn. You just can’t win an argument with him. He never concedes a point. I enjoy seeing his stubborn side, so I try to lead him into arguments while others around say, “Ash, you recognize you aren’t going to win,” Ashwin wrote in a column for Cricinfo.

“M Vijay, in response to me the best opener for India outdoors of Sunil Gavaskar and Virender Sehwag, and Puji are fairly related in that they have not been celebrated sufficient. They additionally had a number of the most hilarious arguments. They used to do essentially the most troublesome job in Test cricket – play out the brand new ball in testing situations, as we have a tendency to want to do each time we go overseas – so it’s par for the course to have just a few eccentricities emerge from that form of partnership.”

The 38-year-old Vijay, days before announcing retirement, had said that age is becoming a hindrance in getting opportunities in Indian cricket.

“I’m virtually accomplished with BCCI (smiles) and I wish to discover my methods overseas. Play little little bit of aggressive cricket,” Vijay instructed 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 road. I do not wish to get into any controversy . The media also needs to handle it in another way. I really feel you’re peaking in your 30s. Sitting right here proper now, I can bat the way in which I bat now. But sadly or luckily, the alternatives are much less, and I’ve to seek for my alternatives outdoors.”

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