Happy Birthday Cheteshwar Pujara: One of the most important players in the Indian Test team is team number 3 Cheteshwar Pujara, who turns 34 today. Cheteshwar Pujara’s flexibility has brought some of the best bowling attacks in the world to their knees. Clearly, he is regarded as one of India’s greatest Test batsmen and a worthy successor to the original ‘Wall’ Rahul Dravid at No. He has scored 6713 runs in 95 Tests at an average of 43.87, which includes 18 centuries and 32 fifties.
Furthermore, the Test specialist is the only active Test cricketer in the world to have batted more than 500 balls in an innings. In an era where fast scoring and attacking cricket has become the norm, Pujara has demonstrated how important it is to pile on runs and for batsmen to stay at the crease and play the balls and rely on their defence.
On the occasion of his birthday, take a look at his top innings in Test cricket:
123 vs Australia in Adelaide
Cheteshwar Pujara set the tone for the next game by scoring 123 in the 2018-19 series opener in Adelaide. Coming to bat first, India got off to a bad start. KL Rahul, Murali Vijay, Virat Kohli, and Ajinkya Rahane all died cheap, leaving the visitors with a 41-for-4 score. The gritty No. 3 held things together to prevent a low innings. In the end, India won their first Test in Australia in ten years, winning by 31 runs in Adelaide.
153 vs South Africa in Johannesburg
In his second tour of South Africa, he scored 153 runs in 270 balls in the team’s second innings of the Johannesburg Test in 2013. Cheteshwar Pujara’s scintillating performance included 21 boundaries as he faced a formidable bowling attack that included Dale Steyn, Vernon Philander, Morne Morkel. , Jacques Kallis, and Imran Tahir.
206* vs England in Ahmedabad
Cheteshwar Pujara’s career-best 206 not out came against England at the start of the four-match Test series, and produced a long innings that he remembered for a long time. Batting first, winning the toss, India scored 521/8 with Cheteshwar Pujara’s brilliant double century. Pujara created trouble for the experienced pair of James Anderson and Stuart Broa who worked tirelessly for their wickets.
204 vs Australia in Hyderabad
In the Hyderabad Test in March 2013, India defeated Australia by an innings and 135 runs. Despite captain Michael Clarke’s 91, Australia were 237 for 9 in their first innings. India then batted Australia for 503 runs, with the match’s standout player, Cheteshwar Pujara, scoring 204 off 341 balls.
145* vs Sri Lanka in Colombo
Despite wickets falling all around him on the pitch in favor of the fast bowlers, Cheteshwar Pujara held the innings together. Cheteshwar Pujara (145 not out) batted for 456 minutes and faced 289 balls to help India post 312 runs when they were 180 for 7 at one point.
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