Cheteshwar Pujara: Cheteshwar Pujara, who was once called the backbone of the Indian Test cricket team (Team India), has been out of Team India for a long time. However, veteran batsman Cheteshwar Pujara is currently participating in England's county cricket and was playing for the Sussex team this year. Cheteshwar Pujara is trying hard to make a comeback in Team India by performing brilliantly in his domestic cricket and in England's county.
When the spirit of Suryakumar Yadav came to Cheteshwar Pujara
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Cheteshwar Pujara, who is trying to make his comeback in Team India, was once considered the backbone of Team India. And no one could imagine the playing eleven of the Test team without him. In the year 2023, during the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy of India's domestic cricket, Pujara, playing for Saurashtra, scored a century in just 61 balls against Railways, playing a brilliant innings.
During this, Pujara hit 14 fours and a six. However, Pujara's century innings went in vain and Railways won this match by five wickets.
T20 career of Cheteshwar Pujara
Usually Cheteshwar Pujara is considered a specialist of Test cricket and it is said that he plays very slow innings even in the limited overs format. However, this is not the case at all. It is a different matter that Pujara takes more time than other batsmen to settle down at the crease.
In his List A career, Pujara has remained unbeaten 26 times in 127 innings of 130 matches and has scored 5759 runs at an average of 57. During this, Pujara has played 16 centuries and 34 half-century innings. At the same time, in T20, Pujara has scored 1556 runs in 63 innings of 71 matches at an average of about 30 and a strike rate of 112.
Cheteshwar Pujara will not get a chance in Duleep Trophy
According to a report in Times, it is being said that BCCI will not give chance to Team India's veteran batsmen Cheteshwar Pujara and Ajinkya Rahane in the recently held tournament Duleep Trophy and in their place wicketkeeper batsman Dhruv Jurel and Sarfaraz Khan, who were members of Team India during the five-match Test series against England, can be given a chance.
