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- Updated: September 11, 2016
Tea India Blue 593 for 4 (Pujara 212*, Jackson 129*, Binny 1-59) v India RedLive scorecard and ball-by-ball details
Having amassed 707 in their last match, India Blue seemed set to go even further in the Duleep Trophy final, as Cheteshwar Pujara’s tenth first-class double-hundred stretched their score to 593 for 4 by the dinner break on day two. With him was Sheldon Jackson, who capitalised on three lives to move to 129 in an unbroken fourth-wicket partnership of 231.
With just over ten days to go for India’s first Test against New Zealand, Pujara has made 166 and 212* in successive first-class matches, suggesting a return to the insatiable ways of his best years. Pujara now has as many first-class double-hundreds as Vijay Hazare, Sunil Gavaskar and Rahul Dravid among Indian batsmen, and only Vijay Merchant, with 11, sits above him.
Though Pujara began the day on 111 with a well-set Dinesh Karthik for company, the first session was far more testing for the batsmen than they might have anticipated. It opened with a wicket off the first ball, when Karthik, playing a loose drive away from his body, edged an innocuous delivery from Pradeep Sangwan onto his stumps.
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