{"id":51638,"date":"2019-01-03T11:13:07","date_gmt":"2019-01-03T11:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=51638"},"modified":"2019-01-03T11:13:07","modified_gmt":"2019-01-03T11:13:07","slug":"pujara-making-all-the-difference-hodge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/pujara-making-all-the-difference-hodge\/","title":{"rendered":"Pujara making all the difference Hodge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sydney<br \/>\nAustralia batsman Brad Hodge has called Jasprit Bumrah \u201ca nightmare to face\u201d but picked Cheteshwar Pujara\u2019s runs at No. 3 as the vital difference between India and Australia in the current series. \u201cPujara has been the difference between the two sides. Both bowling units have looked strong. Barring the first session in Perth, and Mayank Agarwal in Melbourne, all four openers have struggled,\u201d said Hodge. \u201cSo the No. 3 position, where Pujara has dominated, has been of importance. Not only he scored runs, but also took time out of the game.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>India regained the lead in the series with a 137-run win in the third Test in Melbourne, with Pujara scoring a crucial hundred in the first innings. \u201cHe also negated Nathan Lyon, who bowled extremely well in Adelaide and Perth. So Pujara\u2019s importance cannot be ignored,\u201d said Hodge. \u201cHe has not been playing T20 cricket, and instead went to play for Yorkshire. He does the hard work and is getting rewards.\u201d The former Kings XI Punjab coach was also full of praise for the Indian pace attack, especially Bumrah. \u201cBumrah is a nightmare to face.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sydney Australia batsman Brad Hodge has called Jasprit Bumrah \u201ca nightmare to face\u201d but picked Cheteshwar Pujara\u2019s runs at No. 3 as the vital difference between India and Australia in the current series. \u201cPujara has been the difference between the two sides. Both bowling units have looked strong. Barring the first session in Perth, and [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51639,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51638"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51640,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51638\/revisions\/51640"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}