New Delhi Happy Birthday Cheteshwar Pujara: Former captain of the Indian team and legendary batsman Rahul Dravid was called a wall, as he did not lose his wicket easily in Test cricket.
Cheteshwar Pujara had become part of the Indian cricket team before Rahul Dravid retired and had played a few good innings, but two players at one time could not get wall status. In such a situation, when Rahul retired and India got his number three, then India's fate changed. Whenever the Indian team needed to save the match and draw the match or needed to win the match, then Cheteshwar Pujara has done this job well for Team India.
Cheteshwar Pujara has turned 33 today, ie on 25 January 2021, and is going to talk about his special record on the occasion of his birthday, which very few people know about. Born in Rajkot, Gujarat, we are calling Cheteshwar Pujara the new wall of Test cricket because Cheteshwar Pujara has faced the most balls in an innings for India in Test cricket. Cheteshwar Pujara is the only cricketer from India to have played more than 500 in an innings of a Test match.
Cheteshwar Pujara holds the record for playing 525 balls in an innings of a Test match against Australia, while Rahul Dravid played 495 balls against Pakistan. At number three is Navjot Singh Sidhu, who faced 491 balls against the West Indies. At the same time, Ravi Shastri has played 477 balls against Australia. Apart from this, Sunil Gavaskar faced 472 balls against England in an innings, but Pujara is the only Indian who has played more than 500 balls.
You will be aware of the historic victory of the Indian team in the Test series on the tour of Australia in 2018-19. The hero of that series was Cheteshwar Pujara, who scored all the matches. He had scored 521 runs in 4 matches, with 3 centuries with the bat of Pujara. At the same time, Cheteshwar Pujara was also a hero in the 2020-21 series, but this time he worked to tired the Australian bowlers and played the most balls in the series. Even in the last match, he faced all the balls on his body.
Cheteshwar Pujara's career
He has scored 6111 runs in 81 Tests so far, including 3 double centuries, 18 centuries and 28 half-centuries. He has faced 13572 balls so far. His strikerate is close to 45. At the same time, he has also played 5 ODIs, but he could not succeed in this format. He got some chances in the years 2013 and 2014, but he was able to score just 51 runs in 5 innings. Apart from this, he has scored 390 runs in 30 IPL matches.
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