Pujara’s contract with English county Sussex ends; Unadkat to continue stint
Pujara's Saurashtra teammate Jaydev Unadkat has linked up with Sussex to continue his County Championship stint from the previous season.
Pujara's Saurashtra teammate Jaydev Unadkat has linked up with Sussex to continue his County Championship stint from the previous season.
Pujara has scored 20,013 runs at an average of 51.98 in 260 first-class matches. In this format, he has tallied 61 hundreds and 78 fifties; his highest score is 352.
A combined tally of 188 Tests and 12,272 runs is very hard to ignore, but with both 35, and enduring a dry spell of runs, the selectors deemed it the best time to pass on the baton to the younger players.
Top-order batter Cheteshwar Pujara stood tall with his 36 not out as India trail Australia by nine runs at Tea on day two of third Test of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy at the Holkar Stadium, here on Thursday.
The match is going to be a landmark for Cheteshwar Pujara as he will be playing his 100th Test.
Cheteshwar Pujara has been dismissed three out of four times by Cummins in the first two Tests of this year's Border-Gavaskar Trophy.
While the former took to the attacking gear from the word 'go', Pujara was at his usual self as he steadied the Indian innings.
Cheteshwar Pujara, who amassed 521 runs with three centuries and earned the Man-of-the-Series award in 2018-19, got down to batting at the nets on Thursday.
Cheteshwar Pujara stated that when Virat Kohli walks out to bat, the entire focus of the opposition shifts to the latter and they try to get him out quickly
Pujara went unsold in the Indian Premier League auction for the 13th edition and has never played a T20 for India.
