47 Facts About Pujara

Cheteshwar Arvind Pujara was born on 25 January 1988 and is an Indian international cricketer who plays Test cricket for India and represents Saurashtra in domestic cricket.

Pujara is a right-handed batsman who made his first-class debut for Saurashtra in December 2005 and made his Test debut at Bangalore in October 2010.

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

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.

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

Related searches

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

In 2014 IPL, 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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Related searches

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Related searches

Pujara made his Test debut against the Australia at M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore, in October 2010.

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