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Pujara's Brain Fade

Pujara was run-out in the second innings as well

The dictum of taking the attack to the opposition had been advocated by Kohli after the sorry conclusion of the first Test for Team India. Pujara might have been attempting to replicate the same but his dismissal on the fifth day can at best be attributed to a moment of acute brain fade, leaving many to wonder if him just taking the crease and fending off everything as he has done so often would have been a better bet.

Sunil Gavaskar, while commentating on the recently concluded Test series between India and Sri Lanka, had compared Pujara’s running to “a car that runs with a handbrake on.” Unfortunately for Pujara, his brace of run-outs in the second Test match versus South Africa will only testify to the same.