Very difficult to pick the googly under lights: Pujara

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Cheteshwar Pujara got here up with a fluent 166 against India green to energy India Blue to 707 at stumps on Day 2 of the Duleep Trophy conflict at the extra Noida sports activities complicated floor on Monday (September 5). however, the proper-hander acknowledged that it turned into little difficult to select the variations beneath lighting fixtures. "even if i used to be dealing with spinners, it changed into very hard to select the googly beneath lights," Pujara discovered. "a bit difficult to pick the seam on the crimson ball. "This changed into my first game with the crimson ball. I enjoyed batting on this wicket. There wasn't much assist for the short bowlers. The maximum difficult consultation became the 0.33 session [on the first day], below lighting, after they took the second new ball. It moved around and came on quicker." India Blue's score came at the back of a troika of centuries from Mayank Agarwal, Puajara and Sheldon Jackson. After Agarwal and Gautam Gambhir stitched a 212-run establishing stand on the primary day, Pujara and Jackson endured to frustrate the India green bowlers on the second day with precise assist from Dinesh Karthik and Karn Sharma. Jackson changed into ultimately disregarded for a 114-ball one zero five and confirmed that the new purple-ball poses plenty greater challenges to the batsman. "The wicket became properly and the ball was coming on well," he stated. "while the brand new ball comes, it gets tough [to sight it] due to the fact the velocity changes, the ball skids on at correct tempo, so making the minor adjustment takes a bit little bit of time. "every match I score is critical, however to score in such matches could be very crucial due to the fact it's miles live and people are watching. It [the surface] must behave a touch in a different way on days three and four. each the perimeters [of the ball] are scuffed up a little bit."

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