DTVHINDI“People give credit to Rishabh Pant but the real hero of 2021 BGT win was Pujara” – Tim Paine’s surprising statement
Cheteshwar Pujara & Tim Paine (Photo Source: Former Australian captain Tim Paine recently opened up about how important Cheteshwar Pujara’s role was in India’s memorable 2020-21 Border-Gavaskar Trophy win. Paine said that Pujara played the most important role in that series win but people still give his credit to Rishabh Pant. In the 2020-21 Border-Gavaskar Trophy, after suffering a humiliating defeat in Adelaide, India, without their regular captain Virat Kohli and several key senior players, made a spectacular comeback and won the series 2-1. On the 2020-21 Australia tour, Team India won the last Test match of the series, which was played at the Gabba ground, by three wickets, in which Rishabh Pant played the match-winning innings. That innings of Rishabh Pant was recorded in the pages of history. Pant is considered the hero of the 2020-21 Australia vs India Border-Gavaskar Trophy, but former Australian Test captain Tim Paine has a different opinion about it. He believes that because of Cheteshwar Pujara, Team India had captured the 2020-21 Border Gavaskar Trophy. The player who won the series for India in the last series was Cheteshwar Pujara – Tim Paine Tim Paine said on the Grade Cricketers podcast, ‘From what I remember, a lot of people talk about Rishabh Pant, in the last series in Australia, but the man who won the series for India was Cheteshwar Pujara. He had demoralized us and our fast bowlers. He was continuously getting the ball hit on his body, but was getting up again and again. It still has its place in Test cricket. Let us tell you that in the 2020-21 Border-Gavaskar Trophy, Pujara may not have scored a century, but he spent a long time at the crease, and tired the Australian bowlers. Pujara had scored 271 runs in the four-match Test series, of which 77 was his best score. Whereas Rishabh Pant had scored 274 runs in the series.
T20 World Cup 2024: Tim Paine’s big statement came on Australia’s defeat against Afghanistan
Australia was knocked out of the T20 World Cup after losing against Afghanistan AUS vs AFG (Image Credit- Twitter X) Recently, the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2024 ended with the victory of the Indian team. India, England, Afghanistan and South Africa made it to the semi-finals. However, when the tournament started, no one thought that Afghanistan would make it to the last four. Let us tell you that after the team’s amazing performance in the group stage, the Afghan team made it to the T20 World Cup semi-finals for the first time, and then showed amazing performance in the semi-finals and defeated a strong team like Australia by 21 runs, knocking them out of the tournament. With this win, Afghanistan also avenged their crushing defeat against Australia in the World Cup 2023. Also, Australia had refused to play a bilateral series against Afghanistan in Afghanistan. The biggest reason behind this was the Taliban’s ban on women’s participation in sports. Due to this, Cricket Australia refused to send the team to Afghanistan. On the other hand, now a big statement has come from former Australian captain Tim Paine on Australia’s defeat. Tim Paine gave a big statement on Australia’s defeat in T20 World Cup Let us tell you that recently former Australian wicketkeeper batsman Tim Paine, in an interview with Crictracker, said about Australia’s defeat to Afghanistan – I do not believe that we do not play bilateral matches with them. I think Afghanistan played really well in the T20 World Cup in conditions that suited them and they are getting better and better. There is no doubt that they have a lot of depth in their team now. Paine further said- They now have some players who can take the game away from you with the bat and obviously they always have Rashid Khan, who can easily win you the game. They can do better with the ball at any level and T20 cricket is one of their strong sides.
