Published 14:59 IST, August 15th 2022
Cheteshwar Pujara's daughter's reaction wins hearts as he slams career-best 174 for Sussex
Cheteshwar Pujara's innings of 174 runs against Surrey is now the highest List A score by an Asian batter at a domestic one-day tournament in England.
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Team India test specialist Cheteshwar Pujara continued his majestic form in English county cricket scoring his second consecutive century for Sussex in ongoing Royal London One-Day Cup at Hove. Just a couple of days back, Pujara had scored a century against Warwickshire, however, Sussex had lost match back n. latest kck of 174 runs is w highest List A score by an Asian batter at a domestic one-day tournament in England. Besides stellar innings, social media is talking about his four-year-old daughter, Aditi's reaction to kck.
Watch Cheteshwar Pujara's daughter's priceless reaction to his match-winning kck
Following Sussex vs Surrey match, Cheteshwar Pujara took to Instagram and shared clips of match against Surrey. While crowd inside stadium can be seen giving a standing ovation to Pujara, his daughter was seen dancing and cheering for her far. Pujara had captioned Instagram post. "Pleased to contribute to team's win tonight. Great play by entire team @SussexCCC We move onto next one on a high te."
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Sussex vs Surrey One-Day Cup match highlights
Sussex bating first lost ir opening pair of Harrison Ward and Ali Orr for just nine runs on board. However, third-wicket pair of Pujara and Tom Clark brought innings back on track stitching toger a 205-run stand. Clark smashed 104 runs off 106 balls before Amar Virdi trapped him right in front of wicket to break important partnership. Pujara, who is leading team in One-day Cup, continued to carry bat from one end. Pujara ended his innings at 174 off 131 balls after being dismissed by Cor McKerr. Pujara's innings was laced with 20 boundaries and five sixes as Sussex finished with 378 for six. Cor McKerrwas was best bowler for Surrey with figures of 2/73.
Chasing 379 runs for victory, Surrey kept on losing wickets at regular intervals. Besides Ryan Patel and Tom Lawes, ne of or batters were able to show some resistance against Sussex attack. Surrey was eventually bowled out for 162 runs as Sussex won match by 216-run. Aristides Karvelas was most successful bowler for Sussex picking up four wickets and conceding just 35 runs in 8 overs. Delray Rawlins returned with figures of 3./25 from seven overs which also included one maiden over.
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14:59 IST, August 15th 2022