Twitter Reactions: Wriddhiman Saha plays an outstanding knock
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Australia posted a massive total in the first innings, thanks to special innings of Steve Smith. The team from down under put on 451 as the Australian skipper ran out of batsmen to partner him. In reply, India started strongly with Vijay and KL Rahul guided their team past fifty run mark. Pujara and Vijay then added over a hundred runs before the latter was stumped by O’Keefe.
Indians then kept on losing a wicket for every 30 or 40 runs scored with captain returning adding only six to the total. India were still 123 runs behind when Saha walked into bat accompanying a very patient Pujara. It looked like India would again concede a lead of 80 odd runs in the first innings but that wasn’t the case.
Saha partnered by Pujara played an extraordinary inning. The wicketkeeper stuck in there and was patient enough to keep his wicket until the end of Day Three. Today was even better for Saha as he went on to score his third Test hundred. His innings helped India get past the huge total of Australia. This was a much needed century for Saha as his batting performances were not up to the mark.
He was involved in a record-breaking partnership with Cheteshwar Pujara. This pair webbed a 199 run partnership and Saha was a major contributor in the same. He scored 117 runs and faced 233 deliveries for his 117. The Bengal-lad hit Nathon Lyon for a huge six and his eight boundaries were scattered over those 200 odd deliveries.
Saha also had to face the sledge-hammer from the Australians but that did not affect the 32-year-old. This partnership was the best eighth wicket partnership for India. He had not performed so well in the first two test matches of the series and no one saw this coming.
This is no doubt his best innings in Test cricket and Twitter went wild after Saha reached his century. Here are some of the best tweets which hailed Saha for his battling innings.
Wriddhiman Saha Gone On 117(233). Another Fighting Inning Comes To End. Looking For The Guy Who Prepared The Tea. #INDvsAUS #INDvAUS
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— Sir Ravindra Jadeja (@SirJadeja) March 19, 2017
100 Run Partnership Comes Up B/w Cheteshwar Pujara And Wriddhiman Saha. Proving A Point Team India Is Not Only Abt Kohli. #INDvAUS #INDvsAUS pic.twitter.com/qGb5E5gPFF
— Sir Ravindra Jadeja (@SirJadeja) March 19, 2017
Wriddhiman Saha is now the 3rd Indian wicket-keeper to score two Test centuries in the same season and the same calendar year. #INDvAUS
— Sampath Bandarupalli (@SampathStats) March 19, 2017
3rd Test ton for @Wriddhipops and 3rd double ton for @cheteshwar1 #INDvAUS pic.twitter.com/L25dc8kU5P
— BCCI (@BCCI) March 19, 2017
What an outstanding partnership @cheteshwar1 & @Wriddhipops. Congratulations both on well deserved milestones ? @BCCI
— Manoj Tiwary (@tiwarymanoj) March 19, 2017
Fabulous knocks @cheteshwar1 and @Wriddhipops ! Exhilarating stuff!
— Anirudh Chaudhry (@AnirudhChaudhry) March 19, 2017
Quietly, efficiently, @Wriddhipops carving his presence in Indian cricket
— Harsha Bhogle (@bhogleharsha) March 19, 2017
Most Test hundreds by Indian wicket keepers #INDvAUS
6 MS Dhoni
3 WRIDDHIMAN SAHA
2 B Kunderan/ S Kirmani— Cricbuzz (@cricbuzz) March 19, 2017
@Wriddhipops Sir, What a nice innings by you and a well played 100. ???? Great partnership with Pujara Sir. 100% Temperament level. ????
— kashish sahdev (@KashSahdev) March 19, 2017
2.5 sessions without a wicket. Massive partnerships between @cheteshwar1 and @Wriddhipops to turn things around. Match is safe. ? #IndvAus
— Artful Skecha (@ArtfulSkecha) March 19, 2017
Wriddhiman Saha you not only made us proud but you have also shown a great courage.?
— santanu kumar mitra (@ernestobob) March 19, 2017
Great going Team India, Pujara & Saha brilliant stuff. Another good hour after tea and we should be in a strong position in this Test match
— Rohit Sharma (@ImRo45) March 19, 2017
Session goes to ??. Very well played Saha & Pujara. Australia now under some pressure to bat well in the 2nd innings.
— Michael Clarke (@MClarke23) March 19, 2017
Kohli sends Ashwin to bat before Saha so that people think Indian batting has great depth. #IndvAus
— Sagar (@sagarcasm) March 19, 2017
Saha now has half as many hundreds as Dhoni in less than a third of the Tests #INDvAUS
— Gaurav Kalra (@gauravkalra75) March 19, 2017
? up for Wriddhiman Saha! ? Brilliant knock by the ?? keeper, brings up his 3rd Test ton! ? #INDvAUS
— Mumbai Indians (@mipaltan) March 19, 2017
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