Rahul Tiwari
khelja|19-08-2024
Cheteshwar Pujara: Veteran Test batsman Cheteshwar Pujara has been out of the Indian cricket team for a long time. During this time, he played many brilliant innings from Indian domestic cricket to County Championship to make a comeback in Team India, but even after this, Cheteshwar Pujara could not make a comeback in Team India.
Indian cricket team's veteran batsman Cheteshwar Pujara may be out of the team at the moment, but at one time no one could imagine the Test team without him.
Pujara used to score a lot of runs from Indian domestic circuit, county championship to international cricket and used to satisfy his hunger for runs by venting his anger on the bowlers. One such anecdote of Cheteshwar Pujara is from the Duleep Trophy, when he scored a brilliant double century against India Red while playing for India Blue. During this, he had a great partnership with Team India head coach Gautam Gambhir and Rohit Sharma.The final match of the Duleep Trophy of 2016 was played in Greater Noida from 10 September to 14 September.
This match was played between India Red and India Blue. In this match, Cheteshwar Pujara, playing for India Blue, scored 256 runs not out in the first innings of the match facing 363 balls. During his innings, Cheteshwar Pujara hit 28 fours. Cheteshwar Pujara's strike rate during this innings was more than 70. Due to this innings of Cheteshwar Pujara, India Blue did not have to bat again and they won the match by 355 runs and won the title of Duleep Trophy.Star all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja from Cheteshwar Pujara's team took a total of ten wickets in the match and also scored 48 runs during this period.
Gautam Gambhir was captaining the India Blue team. Gambhir scored 94, Rohit Sharma 30, Dinesh Karthik 55 and Sheldon Jackson scored 134 runs in this match.
