IND vs BAN 2nd Test: Cheteshwar Pujara joins special club with 7000 Test runs; 8th Indian to achieve feat

Cheteshwar Pujara has joined a special club of Indian players in his 98th Test match for India. The veteran start of the red-ball cricket for India has brought up 7000 runs in Test match cricket and is the 8th Indian to do so. Pujara, who scored an unbeaten hundred in the first Test match against Bangladesh needed just 16 runs to join the elite club of players before the start of the match.

Pujara joins special club

On the fifth ball of the 19th over, Pujara took three runs to reach the milestone of 700 Test runs. The veteran star, now 34, is one of the consistent performers for India and needed 98 Test matches to reach the tally of runs. In doing so he joins the likes of Sachin Tendulkar and fellow coach Rahul Dravid who are already part of the special club.

In 98 Test matches and 167 innings, Pujara has an average of 44.79 and has scored 19 hundreds and 34 fifties in the Test format. His best score of unbeaten 206 remains one of the three occasions he has scored a Test double century which came against England in Ahmedabad in November 2012.

Early blows for India

Despite Pujara’s milestone, the Indian team struggled in the first hour of the match as they could not resist the Bangladesh bowling attack. The likes of KL Rahul and Shubman Gill departed early for India while Pujara was dismissed for 24 runs and was caught at the silly leg by Mominul in the 31st over.

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Indian Players with 7000+ Test runs

Player	Mat	Inns	Runs	HS	Ave	100	50	0
Sachin Tendulkar	200	329	15921	248*	53.78	51	68	14
Rahul Dravid	163	284	13265	270	52.63	36	63	7
Sunil Gavaskar	125	214	10122	236*	51.12	34	45	12
VVS Laxman	134	225	8781 Related Stories IND vs BAN 2nd Test: Sunil Gavaskar terms team selection 'Unbelievable' after dropping Kuldeep Yadav IND vs BAN 2nd Test: Rare moment for India despite key player's absence in second Test I Know More IND vs BAN 2nd Test Live Cricket Score: BAN dominate with 3 wickets, IND struggle at Lunch	281	45.97	17	56	14
V Sehwag	103	178	8503	319	49.43	23	31	16
Virat Kohli	104*	175	8094	254*	49.35	27	28	14
Sourav Ganguly	113	188	7212	239	42.17	16	35	13
Cheteshwar Pujara	98*	167	7000*	206*	44.79	19	34	11