Cheteshwar Arvind Pujara is an Indian cricket player who was born on January 25, 1988. He is the vice-captain of the Indian cricket team in Test cricket and the captain of the Sussex County Cricket Club in the County Championship. In Indian cricket, he plays for the Saurashtra team. Pujara is known for the careful way he bats, which has kept him on the Indian Test team for more than a decade. One of the main reasons India won their first-ever test series in Australia was because of how well he hit the ball.
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He had the most points in the 2012 NKP Salve Challenger Trophy, with two hundreds and one fifty. He was one of the players who got to 1000 runs in Test cricket the fastest. It took him just 11 games and his 18th Test Innings to do it. He was named 2013’s “Emerging Cricketer of the Year”. In a one-off Test match against Bangladesh in February 2017, he got 1,605 runs, which was a new record for a batter in an Indian first-class season. Chandu Borde set the old record of 1,604 runs in 1964–65. In November 2017, he got his 12th double-century in first-class cricket. This made him the Indian batsman with the most double-centuries, beating Vijay Merchant’s mark.
Biography of Cheteshwar Pujara:
Early life
Cheteshwar Pujara was born to a Hindu Lohana family on January 25, 1988, in Rajkot, Gujarat. Both his father Arvind and his uncle Bipin played for Saurashtra in the Ranji Trophy. His mother, Reema Pujara, and father saw his ability early on, and Cheteshwar worked on his skills with his father. When he was 17, his mother died of cancer. This happened in 2005. Cheteshwar Pujara went to J.J. Kundalia College and got his BBA there.
Teenage career
In 2005, England was the first Test match Pujara played in for India when he was 19 years old. He hit 211 runs to start the innings, which helped India win by an innings and 137 runs. After getting three 50s in four innings at the Afro-Asia Under-19 Cup, he was also put on the Indian team for the 2006 Under-19 Cricket World Cup. He scored the most runs in the Under-19 World Cup. In 6 games, he got 349 runs, including three fifties and a century, for an average of 117. He was the best player in the Under-19 Cricket World Cup in 2006.
Domestic career of Cheteshwar Pujara:
He struck 10 and 203 not out from 221 balls against Madhya Pradesh at the Saurashtra Cricket Association Stadium in Rajkot to win by 203 runs and qualify Saurashtra for the 2012–13 Ranji Trophy quarter-finals. In the quarterfinal at Saurashtra University in Rajkot against Karnataka, he struck 37 and 352 (dismissed by off spinner K. Gowtham in both innings) to help Saurashtra advance to the semifinal.
Pujara played for Kolkata Knight Riders in the first three IPL seasons. RCB bought him at the 2011 auction. He played for RCB in the fourth IPL season before hurting his knee against Kochi Tuskers Kerala. After a year, he returned to domestic cricket. After six matches as Virender Sehwag’s opening partner in the 2014 IPL, Pujara was dropped after scoring 125 runs at 25 and 100.80. He joined Yorkshire after being undrafted for the 2015 IPL.
Pujara achieved his 50th first-class century in January 2020 in the 2019–20 Ranji Trophy. In the 2021 IPL auction, Chennai Super Kings bought Pujara for 50 lakhs. He never played. In the 2022 County Championship in England, Pujara and Tom Haines scored double century in the same innings while following-on. In his debut County Championship match as Sussex captain, Pujara made a century against Middlesex in July 2022.
International career of Cheteshwar Pujara:
In India’s 2010 two-match home Test series against Australia, Pujara replaced Yuvraj Singh. He debuted in the second Test at Bangalore on 9 October 2010 after Gautam Gambhir and VVS Laxman were injured in the First Test. Dhoni replaced Rahul Dravid with Pujara at three in the second innings. With India needing 207 to win, Nathan Hauritz’s arm ball removed him after 72. He returned in August 2012 and made his first Test century, 159 against New Zealand in Hyderabad.
Four England test matches for India. He struck 206 uninterrupted runs to help his team win the first match at Sardar Patel Stadium in Ahmedabad and lead the series 1–0. He scored 280 runs at 70.00 on India’s 2013 South Africa tour. 2014 England tour squad: Pujara. He struggled in five Tests, scoring 55 and 222 runs. Despite promising starts, his back foot movement, straighter bat, and seaming ball troubles prevented him from scoring big. In May, before the first Test of 2017, he signed a four-match contract with Nottinghamshire to replace James Pattinson in Division Two.
Pujara was dropped for England’s First Test in 2018. In the Third Test at Trent Bridge, he scored 72. After losing at Lord’s and Birmingham, Virat Kohli’s 97 and 103 won by 203 runs. He scored 271 runs in four matches against Australia in December 2020 at 33.87. His 29.20 strike rate was questioned. On 19 January 2021 at The Gabba, Pujara scored his slowest Test half-century. He got 50 on 196 balls, breaking his 2020 record of 174 balls against Australia. On 16 December 2022, Pujara scored 102 unbeaten in the second innings of the first Test against Bangladesh after 1443 days.
Records:
- Pujara hit 2,000 runs in a year. In first-class games in 2013, he got 2,043 runs at 102.15. Only Chris Rogers made more in 2013 with 2,391 runs at 48.79 from 28 games.
- India’s 222-run partnership with Virat Kohli is tied for the best in South Africa and is their highest in the second innings of a Test in South Africa.
- The Indian player with the second fastest 1,000 test runs.
- Indian batters in South Africa have never scored higher than 153 in the second half of a game.
- In a Test match, an Indian has played 525 balls.
- After his double century against Australia in March 2017, Pujara moved up to the number two spot in the rankings for Test bowlers, which was his best spot ever.
- He is the third batsman for India and the ninth player overall to bat on all five days of a Test.
- He is the sixth player from India to score a century on the first day of a tour outside of Asia.
- He is the eleventh player from India to get to 6000 Test Runs.
Batting and Bowling Stats:
Batting Career Summary
| M | Inn | NO | Runs | HS | Avg | BF | SR | 100 | 200 | 50 | 4s | 6s | |
| Test | 103 | 176 | 11 | 7195 | 206 | 43.61 | 16217 | 44.37 | 19 | 3 | 35 | 863 | 16 |
| ODI | 5 | 5 | 0 | 51 | 27 | 10.2 | 130 | 39.23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| IPL | 30 | 22 | 3 | 390 | 51 | 20.53 | 391 | 99.74 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 50 | 4 |
Bowling Career Summary
| M | Inn | B | Runs | Wkts | BBI | BBM | Econ | Avg | SR | 5W | 10W | |
| Test | 103 | 2 | 12 | 3 | 0 | 0/1 | 0/1 | 1.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
| ODI | 5 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| IPL | 30 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
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