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    "title": "Chesteshwar Pujara wages lone battle as India totter at 74\/5 on Day 2",
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    "excerpt": "Kolkata, Nov 17 (Cricketnmore) Waging a lonely battle, Chesteshwar Pujara was three short of his 16th half century as India were reduced to 74\/5 when early lunch was called due to rain and more downpour axed Day Two of the first Test at the Eden Gardens here on Friday.\r\n",
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    "editor1": "<p><strong>Kolkata, Nov 17 (Cricketnmore):&nbsp;<\/strong> Waging a lonely battle, Chesteshwar Pujara was three short of his 16th half century as India were reduced to 74\/5 when early lunch was called due to rain and more downpour axed Day Two of the first Test at the Eden Gardens here on Friday.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Only 105 minutes of play was possible on the second day in the morning session before the skies opened up.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Lunch had to be called early after rain interrupted play half hour before the break.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Pujara (47 off 102; 4x9) held fort at one end beginning the day on eight runs. The other overnight batsman, Ajinkya Rahane (4 off 21; 1x4), failed to get going and eventually fell to Dasun Shanaka (2\/23) playing a poor shot as 21 overs were bowled in the first session.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Ashwin (4 off 21) was also guilty of a naive drive as India failed to recover from their overnight score of 17\/3.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Suranga Lakmal, who returned magnificent figures of 6-6-0-3 on the rain-affected first day, conceded his first runs after 46 deliveries off the bat of Rahane, who three overs later fell prey to Shanaka.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Lakmal still had great figures to show for, leaking just five runs in 11 overs and bowling nine maidens and taking three wickets.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>On day two, a tempted delivery outside the off-stump took a thin edge off Rahane&#39;s bat to wicketkeeper Niroshan Dickwella as he tried to aimlessly drive through covers.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>At 30\/4, the hosts were in a spot with Pujara finding himself alone in the middle, tasked to bail the team out.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>The in-form Saurashtra man played two exquisite off drives to Shanaka before taking on the same bowler a few overs later for another four.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Pujara looked supreme on the off side, hitting Shanaka and Lahiru Gamage for two more boundaries past mid-off area.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>He was equally comfortable on the backfoot, punching a short and wide Karu.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>While bowling all-rounder Ashwin struggled to settle in, taking a knock on his hand in the 25th over off Lahiru Gamage&#39;s bowling before ending his ordeal in the next over. Gamage remained wicketless with figures of 11.5-3-24-0.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Trying to drive a length Shanaka delivery, the right-hander, returning to international cricket after three months, gave an easy catch to Dimuth Karunaratne at backward point.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Later, Wriddhiman Saha, who also looked uncomfortable with the extra bounce on the wicket, went into the break unbeaten on 6 from 22 balls.<\/p>\r\n",
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