Today is the 37th birthday of Cheteshwar Pujara, who played a key role in India’s three-wicket win in the Brisbane Test. Born on 25 January 1988 in Rajkot, Gujarat, Pujara is called the new ‘Wall’ of Indian cricket. India’s legendary Test batsman Cheteshwar Pujara has turned 37 years old. Today i.e. 25th January is Cheteshwar Pujara’s birthday. Cheteshwar Pujara is known for his disciplined and patient batting style, due to which he remained an integral part of the Indian Test team for more than a decade. Cheteshwar Pujara was once called the wall of Team India. However, times have changed now. Cheteshwar Pujara has been dropped from the Indian Test team.
Pujara has scored 6111 runs in 81 test matches. Cheteshwar, who scored three double centuries, 18 centuries and 28 half-centuries with the highest score of 206, did not get many opportunities in one-day cricket, he has 51 runs in 5 ODI matches. Pujara, who scored a total of 271 runs at an average of 33.87 in eight innings of four Test matches of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy against Australia, is now receiving congratulations from all over the world. Puji captain Virat Kohli and teammate Wriddhiman Saha wished him all the best on Twitter. Former player RP Singh also praised him a lot.
Cheteshwar Pujara played his last Test match for Team India in the final of the World Test Championship 2023. After this, Shubman Gill was given the responsibility of batting at number 3 for the West Indies tour in June-July 2023. Since that match, Cheteshwar Pujara is out of the Indian Test team. Recently Cheteshwar Pujara completed 20,000 runs in first-class cricket. Cheteshwar Pujara recently played an unbeaten inning of 243 runs in the Elite Group A match of Ranji Trophy against Jharkhand. Still, he was not given a chance in the Test series against England.
In the five-match Test series against a dangerous team like England, Team India needed an experienced batsman like Cheteshwar Pujara, who is adept at playing spin bowling. Cheteshwar Pujara is adept at playing spin bowling in home conditions. In the absence of Cheteshwar Pujara, Shubman Gill has failed to make a mark in Test cricket as the No. 3 batsman.
Shubman Gill has played 7 innings so far as the number 3 batsman in Test cricket. Shubhman Gill has scored 6, 10, 29*, 2, 26, 36 and 10 runs during this period. After the failure of Shubman Gill at number 3, many big questions have arisen in front of the Indian team management. Team India is missing the experience of Cheteshwar Pujara at number 3. Cheteshwar Pujara has played 103 Test matches for India so far and has scored 7195 runs at an average of 43.61. Cheteshwar Pujara has scored 19 centuries and 35 half-centuries in Test cricket. Cheteshwar Pujara’s best score in Test cricket is 206 runs.
