“With someone who doesn’t look to take the game on, you feel like you can experiment a little bit more, maybe be a little more aggressive in bowling a touch fuller, try to swing the ball, play around with your crease position.
“But on the flip side, if the batter’s good enough to get through that and they can bat and bat, it doesn’t really matter what you bowl at them. It really comes down to the fact that if he doesn’t bat lots of time you feel great and love bowling to him. If he does, you go, okay, well, his method is obviously working,” he said.
Pujara endured many a painful blows on his body in his dogged 56-run knock in a 211-ball vigil to lay the foundation for India’s historic three-wicket win in the final Test in Brisbane.
“…it’s incredibly rare that someone gets hit on his body and wears so many bruises without trying something…he really stuck to his processes,” Cummins said.
“…it’s like a pillow (Pujara’s soft hands). Just soft hands, plays…