Cheteshwar Pujara’s bat spewed fire in Ranji, created history by playing a stormy innings of 352 runs

Rahul Tiwari

khelja|25-08-2024

Cheteshwar Pujara: Indian cricket team's legendary batsman Cheteshwar Pujara has single-handedly won many matches for Team India. He has played such innings single-handedly, which has helped Team India win many Test matches.

However, this veteran player of Team India has been out of the team for some time now and he is not getting a place in the Indian team. However, during this time his fierce form was seen and this player scored a triple century.

Cheteshwar Pujara had hit a triple century

Cheteshwar Pujara's bat spewed fire in Ranji, created history by playing a stormy innings of 352 runs 2

Actually, Pujara (Cheteshwar Pujara) had hit a triple century not now but in the 2013 season. During a match in the 2013 Ranji Trophy season, Saurashtra and Karnataka teams were face to face. Pujara's fierce form was seen in this match.

Cheteshwar scored a triple century in this match while playing against Karnataka.

In this innings, he faced 427 balls and scored 352 runs. During this, 49 fours and one six came from his bat.

Saurashtra had registered victory in the match

This match played in 2013 was a quarterfinal match and Saurashtra's team won this match. In this match, Saurashtra batted first and scored 469 runs, while Karnataka's team was all out for 396 runs in the first innings.

After this, in their second innings, Saurashtra declared their innings at 718 runs for the loss of 9 wickets. With this, the match was drawn due to time running out but this was a quarterfinal match and hence due to Saurashtra's lead in the first innings, they were declared the winners.

First class career of Cheteshwar Pujara

If we talk about Pujara (Cheteshwar Pujara), he is included in the list of players who have played more than 100 Test matches for Team India. During this time, he has led India to victory in many matches. If we look at his first class career, that too has been brilliant.

This legendary player has played a total of 271 first class matches in his career so far, in which he has scored 20899 runs with an average of 52.11.

During this, 65 centuries and 80 half-centuries have come from his bat.

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