cheteshwar pujara on virat kohli

“You want your milestone but not at the cost of the team” – Pujara on Virat Kohli.

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‘You want your milestone but not at the cost of the team’: Pujara on Virat Kohli.

“As much as I wanted Virat Kohli to score that hundred, you have to keep in mind, you want to finish the game as early as possible. You want your Net Run Rate to be at the top. If you are in a position where you are fighting for the Net Run Rate, then you don’t want to look back and say ‘you could have done that’,” said Pujara.

“That’s where I feel that as a collective decision, maybe you have to sacrifice a bit. You want to look at the team, you want to put the team first, that’s how I look at it. You want your milestone, but not at the cost of the team. As a player, you always have a choice. But some players feel if they get a hundred, it helps them in the next game. So it depends on what kind of mindset you have,” Pujara added.

“The pitch was getting slower and slower, and it was becoming more difficult to bat. So, Virat slowed down a bit to make sure that he didn’t get out. And it worked out for him, because he was able to get a century,” Pujara said.