Cheteshwar Pujara, one of the best batsmen of the Indian cricket team, has been sidelined by the BCCI selection committee for a long time and he last played for the Indian team in the year 2023. Since then, the management has been giving opportunities to young players in his place.
After being constantly ignored from the team, Pujara is currently participating in the local ODI tournament being played in England. Along with this, an innings played by Cheteshwar Pujara in domestic cricket is being talked about a lot these days.
When Cheteshwar Pujara's bat roared in Ranji Trophy
Cheteshwar Pujara, a batsman considered a test specialist, has performed brilliantly in the Ranji Trophy.
It is not every bowler's cup of tea to get Cheteshwar Pujara out in first class and he troubles the bowlers with his batting. Pujara scored a lot of runs against Karnataka while playing for Saurashtra in the quarter-final match of Ranji season 2012-13. It was because of his innings that the team won this important match and qualified for the semi-finals.
Cheteshwar Pujara played an innings of 352 runs
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The quarter final match of Ranji Trophy 2012-13 was played between Saurashtra and Karnataka at Rajkot ground and in the third innings of this match, Cheteshwar Pujara, playing for Saurashtra, faced 427 balls and scored 352 runs with the help of 49 fours and a six.
The team won due to this innings of Pujara. Apart from this, while batting in the first innings of the match, Pujara adopted an aggressive approach and played a useful innings of 37 runs in 49 balls. It was only after this innings that Pujara was able to secure his place in the Indian team again.
This is what a first class career looks like
If we talk about the first class career of Team India's best player Cheteshwar Pujara, then his career has been very brilliant. So far, while playing for his team, he has scored 20899 runs in 447 innings of 271 matches at an average of 52.11.
During this, he has also played 65 centuries and 80 half-century innings.
