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#2 204 vs Australia at Hyderabad, 2013

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In the second test of the 2013 Border-Gavaskar trophy, Australia won the toss and chose to bat first in Hyderabad. The Aussies scored 237, thanks to Clarke's 91 and Wade's 62. Bhuvaneswar Kumar and Ravindra Jadeja both picked up 3 wickets each to restrict the Kangaroos to a low score.

India then came out to bat and posted a huge total of 503 before they got all-out. Murali Vijay scored 167 and Pujara scored yet another double-century with 204 off 341 deliveries. Pujara's innings included 30 fours and 1 six. The Vijay-Pujara duo stitched together a huge partnership of 370 runs before the former got dismissed.

In the second innings, Australia were all-out for 131. Ashwin caused the destruction with 5/63. India won the game by an innings and 135 runs and went 2-0 up in the 4-matches test series. Pujara was the man of the match for his double-century that gave India a huge 266 -run first innings lead.

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