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2nd Test: India end Day 2 with 100+ lead

2nd Test: India end Day 2 with 100+ lead

By Vijaya
Nov 25, 2017
06:23 pm

What's the story

On Day 2 of the 2nd Test against Sri Lanka at Nagpur, Indian batsmen put up an impressive show to make it 312 for loss of two wickets. Cheteshwar Pujara, Murali Vijay, Virat Kohli were the performers of the day to give India a 107-run lead against the visitors. Let's look at the proceedings of the match on Day 2.

Partnership stats

Centuries for Vijay and Pujara

Murali Vijay (128) and Cheteshwar Pujara (121*) notched up a ton each. They had a 209-run partnership, setting some records in the process. Their partnership today was their 4th successive century stand, and a 5th in their last seven innings. Only four other pairs have as many successive century stands in Tests- Sam Loxton-Neil Harvey, Sanjay Manjrekar-Mohammad Azharuddin, Mark Butcher-Marcus Trescothick, Younis Khan-Mohammad Yousuf.

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A double-century stand record

Vijay-Pujara's 209 stand is their 3rd double-century stand in Tests. Only three other Indian pairs have managed more, Dravid-Sehwag, Dravid-Tendulkar, and Ganguly-Tendulkar, with four double-ton stands each.

In numbers

Significance of Pujara and Vijay's knocks

Today's ton was Vijay's 10th Test century. He has the third most Test hundreds among Indian openers after Sunil Gavaskar (33) and Virender Sehwag (22). Cheteshwar Pujara, on the other hand, scored his 14th Test century and fourth this year. Pujara also became the third and only Indian so far to complete 1000 Test runs this calendar year after Dean Elgar and Dimuth Karunaratne.