IND vs BAN 2nd Test: India's Cheteshwar Pujara has joined a special club of Indian players after he brought 7000 Test runs on Friday (December 23) against Bangladesh in his 98th Test match
Cheteshwar Pujara's second fastest 100 came vs West Indies at Wankhede when he slammed a 100 in 146 balls.
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Pujara along with Shreyas Iyer added 149 runs for the fifth wicket with the Indian team ending the opening day on 278/6.
Pujara scored his previous Test century back in the year 2019.
In the 96 Test matches that he played, Pujara has scored 6792 runs including 18 centuries and 33 fifties.
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In the ongoing Royal London Cup, Pujara scored his third century.
Pujara scored a sublime 231 runs against Middlesex. The India batter faced 403 balls and hit 21 boundaries and 3 sixes. Pujara batted for close to eight hours.
Ian Salisbury, Sussex Head Coach, went on to say that Pujara has been a leader ever since he joined the team and has been very keen on stepping up in the absence of Tom.
After Rahul Dravid retired, Pujara was bestowed with the responsibility of batting at India for no.3 and control the innings.
While the other Indian greats were busy playing the star-studded Indian Premier League, Pujara was busy playing Test cricket and preparing himself for the last Test match of the series to be played against England.
With the experienced Rohit out of the playing eleven, seasoned Cheteshwar Pujara has a good chance of opening the batting with young Shubman Gill.
On the 2nd day of the game, Pujara came out to bat, faced five deliveries, and was sent packing by his Indian teammate, Mohammed Shami.
Rizwan said he had had some quality discussions with Pujara on the perception of Indian players about being engaged in bilateral cricket with Pakistan.
The 34-year-old Pujara scored 720 runs, including two double hundreds and two centuries, in five Division two games for Sussex.
Pujara's hundred came off off-spinner Mark Stoneman, whom he drove for three runs
The day began with Sussex at 362/5, with the Indian batsman on 128 and the Pakistani batsman-wicketkeeper on 5
The batsman who was dropped from the Indian Test team following the series loss in South Africa earlier this year, smashed 203 off 334 balls.
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