With the help of Cheteshwar Pujara's centuary , India batted nearly two days to post 443 runs on the board. Ever after hitting a much needed century, Former Australia captain Ricky Ponting has questioned  Cheteshwar Pujara's inability to score runs at a greater speed than he does makes it difficult for India to win Test matches.

Ponting said Cheteshwar Pujara's first innings century He has just made another hundred, his second of the series, so he's playing well and doesn't really look like getting out. But he just locks himself in this little bubble where scoring doesn't seem to faze him at all. The former caption further added"They've got other guys in their side who are stroke-makers but if those guys don't come off, the scoring rate is always going to be hovering around that two runs an over mark, which makes it pretty hard to win Test matches, especially on flat wickets like we might have here.

Commenting on the slow pace of scoring run of Pujara, Ponting said "I think it's always hard for India to push the run rate along when Pujara's there."

It was also Pujara's 17th century but also his slowest among all of them as he took 280 balls to reach the three-figure mark for the first time in his career.