55 Facts About Cheteshwar Pujara

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Cheteshwar Arvind Pujara was born on 25 January 1988 and is an Indian cricketer who is currently the vice captain of Indian cricket team in Test cricket and is the captain of Sussex County Cricket Club in County Championship.

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Cheteshwar Pujara made his first-class debut for Saurashtra in December 2005 and made his Test debut at Bangalore in October 2010.

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Cheteshwar Pujara was a part of the India A team which toured England in the 2010 summers and was the highest scorer of the tour.

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Cheteshwar Pujara made his first double hundred against England at Ahmedabad in November 2012 and followed up with another double hundred against Australia in March 2013, both the times steering India to victory and becoming man of the match.

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Cheteshwar Pujara became one of the fastest batsmen to reach 1000 runs in Test cricket in just 11 matches and his 18th Test Innings.

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Cheteshwar Pujara won the Emerging Cricketer of the Year 2013.

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Cheteshwar Pujara was awarded a Grade B contract by the BCCI in March 2022.

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Cheteshwar Pujara was born in Rajkot, Gujarat on 25 January 1988 In a Hindu Lohana Family.

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Cheteshwar Pujara's mother died in 2005 when he was 17 due to cancer.

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Cheteshwar Pujara made his Under-19 Test debut for India against England in 2005.

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Cheteshwar Pujara was picked in the Indian squad for the 2006 Under-19 Cricket World Cup after scoring three fifties in four innings of the Afro-Asia Under-19 Cup.

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Cheteshwar Pujara was the leading run-scorer of the Under-19 World Cup where he scored 349 runs from 6 innings, including three fifties and a century, at an average of 117.

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Cheteshwar Pujara was the Man of the Tournament in the 2006 Under-19 Cricket World Cup.

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Cheteshwar Pujara scored 97 runs against the West Indies in the quarterfinals before scoring 129 runs not out against England in the semifinals, helping India win by a huge margin of 234 runs.

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In 2013, at the age of only 25, Cheteshwar Pujara became only the ninth batsman to score three career first-class triple-centuries.

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Cheteshwar Pujara holds a record of scoring three triple centuries within a span of one month, although only the last of these was in a first-class match.

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Cheteshwar Pujara played for the Kolkata Knight Riders in the first three seasons of the IPL.

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Cheteshwar Pujara started for RCB for the fourth season of the IPL before injuring his knee in a match against Kochi Tuskers Kerala.

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In 2014 IPL, Cheteshwar Pujara began the season as Virender Sehwag's opening partner and was left out after the first six matches in which he made 125 runs at an average of just 25 at a strike rate of 100.80.

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In February 2021, Cheteshwar Pujara was bought by the Chennai Super Kings for 50 lakhs in the IPL auction ahead of the 2021 Indian Premier League.

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Cheteshwar Pujara however did not get a chance to play in any match.

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In July 2022, Cheteshwar Pujara scored a century in his first game as Sussex captain against Middlesex in the ongoing 2022 County Championship in England.

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Cheteshwar Pujara was selected for the Indian squad for the 2 match home Test series against Australia in 2010, replacing Yuvraj Singh.

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Cheteshwar Pujara made his debut in the second Test of the series on 9 October 2010 at Bangalore after both Gautam Gambhir and VVS Laxman were down with injuries sustained in the First Test.

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Cheteshwar Pujara was selected in India's squad to play four test matches against England.

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Cheteshwar Pujara was named man of the match for his inning.

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Cheteshwar Pujara continued his good form when he made another hundred in the second match at Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai.

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Cheteshwar Pujara became the 2nd fastest Indian to get to 1,000 Test runs, during the course of his double hundred against Australia in March 2013, at Hyderabad, where he put on a 370-run record 2nd wicket partnership with Murali Vijay.

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Cheteshwar Pujara had a brilliant test series against Australia scoring 419 runs, only second to Murali Vijay's 430 in which he slammed a double ton's 204 and two half-centuries.

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Cheteshwar Pujara was picked for the Indian squad for the 2014 Asia Cup that was held in Bangladesh.

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Cheteshwar Pujara was named in the 16-man squad for the 2014 tour of England.

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Cheteshwar Pujara was not a part of the squad for the ODI series that followed and upon receiving permission from the BCCI, signed for Derbyshire to play in their last three games of the season.

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Cheteshwar Pujara returned to form during the three-match test series against Sri Lanka in August 2015.

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Cheteshwar Pujara scored 145 not out in the third test against them.

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Cheteshwar Pujara continued to work on his game however he remained in the reckoning for a national comeback.

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Cheteshwar Pujara made the most of an injury setback to Murali Vijay in the 2015 series in Sri Lanka, reminding the selectors of his mettle by carrying his bat through his epic unbeaten 145 on an uncharacteristically seaming wicket at the SSC, Colombo, paving the way for an Indian win in the decider.

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Cheteshwar Pujara has raised the bar even further since then, hammering routine hundreds during India's long home season and the odd series in Sri Lanka and the West Indies.

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Cheteshwar Pujara played a key role in India's second inning of second Test scoring a crucial 92 in Bangalore, and helped the team win the game.

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Cheteshwar Pujara finished the season with 1,316 runs in Tests, the second most in a single season after Australia's Ricky Ponting.

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Cheteshwar Pujara broke the record for the most runs scored in a first-class season by an Indian.

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Cheteshwar Pujara scored a hundred in his first game, against Gloucestershire, scoring 112 and adding 185 runs for the fourth wicket.

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Cheteshwar Pujara scored another hundred in the second match, his 50th Test, a first innings knock of 133.

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Cheteshwar Pujara was dropped from the team for the First Test of the 2018 England tour.

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Cheteshwar Pujara made an unbeaten 132 off 257 deliveries, while adding 78 runs for the final two wickets, helping his team gain a 27-run lead over England's first innings total.

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Cheteshwar Pujara finished the series scoring 278 runs at 39.71.

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Cheteshwar Pujara carried his good form to Australia later that season and scored his maiden century in the country on the opening day of the First Test at Adelaide, becoming only the seventh Indian to do so on the first day of a Test series outside Asia.

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En route to his century, Cheteshwar Pujara reached 5,000 runs in Tests, becoming the fifth fastest Indian to reach the milestone in terms of innings batted.

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Cheteshwar Pujara followed it up with a 71 in the second innings and helped India win the Test, their first in the country in ten years.

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Cheteshwar Pujara followed it up with a third century of the series in the final Test at Sydney, making 193 in the first innings off 373 balls, in another man-of-the-match winning performance.

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Cheteshwar Pujara finished the series making 521 runs, the highest for either sides, from a total of 1,258 deliveries faced, a record for an India player there, and at an average of 74.42.

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On 19 January 2021, during the fourth Test match against Australia on The Gabba, Cheteshwar Pujara scored his slowest Test half century ever.

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Cheteshwar Pujara reached his half century on the 196th ball that he faced, and passed his old record of a 174 ball half century against Australia in 2020.

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On 16 December 2022, Cheteshwar Pujara scored a century in Test cricket after 1443 days in the second innings of the first Test against Bangladesh, and scored unbeaten on 102 runs.

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Cheteshwar Pujara scored his first test century against New Zealand at Hyderabad in the first match of New Zealand's tour of India in 2012, scoring 159.

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Cheteshwar Pujara married Puja Pabari in Rajkot on 13 February 2013.