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Video games were addicted at the age of 10. The mother said if you have to play the game then believe me a condition. You have to worship 10 minutes daily. After this, worshiping joined the daily routine. After some time, video game addiction turned into addiction to batting.
The process of batting started from the Baramde of the house, passed through every small and big ground in Rajkot from Melbourne to Lord’s. Every famous ground in the world witnessed its exploits.
This is small, but true story of Cheteshwar Pujara. Pujara has said goodbye to international cricket today. In the next story, we will know how a young priest became the legendary batsman of the Indian Test team?
Cheteshwar Pujara was born on 25 January 1988 in a Hindu Brahmin family in Rajkot. In the picture, little Pujara with mother Reema and father Arvind.
Travel to the priest to become Pujara
Uncle also Ranji player, father first coach
Pujara’s father Arvind and mother Reema soon recognized their son’s talent. At the young age of 8 years, cricket from his father is a cognizance of cricket. Arvind was very strict as a coach. There was a scolding in front of everyone when there was a little mistake. Pujara’s uncle Bipin has also played Ranji for Saurashtra.
Pujara posted this photo on his birthday with his father Arvind. Pujara had a love marriage with Pooja Prabari.
Mother’s zone raised from her head at the age of 17
Pujara was 17 years old when the mother’s zonal woke up from her head. In 2005, he returned after playing the under-19 match. Pujara told his mother Reema on the phone to send Rajkot bus stand to take Dad, but this youth found a relative instead of father in the bus stand, who told him that your mother had passed away. This year Pujara made Ranji debut.
Cheteshwar Pujara posted this photo of his mother on Mother’s Day. The photo is of his childhood.
Broken hamstring bone in 2009, Shahrukh Khan helped
Pujara’s hamstring bone broke while playing for Kolkata Knight Riders in the Indian Premier League in South Africa in 2009. In such a situation, the family wanted to bring him to Rajkot, but the team owner Shah Rukh spoke to Pujara’s family and persuaded him to undergo Pujara’s surgery in South Africa. Shah Rukh argued that rugby players get such an injury and doctors there do it well. Shah Rukh made Pujara’s father’s passport and took him to South Africa.
Laxman knocked in Test cricket in the absence of Laxman
Pujara knocked in Test cricket against Australia in Bangalore in 2010, about 15 years ago. In the fourth innings of the second match of the series, India had a target of more than 200 runs and India lost the wicket of Virender Sehwag for 17 runs.
VVS Laxman, who played a classical innings of 72 runs in the fourth innings of the first match of the series, was also not playing in that match. They were injured. In such a situation, captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni gave the task of saving the team to the young Pujara, while he was able to score only 4 runs in the first innings of this match. Despite this, Dhoni changed the batting order and replaced Pujara on number-3 in place of Rahul Dravid.
Pujara also did not disappoint the captain and knocked in Test cricket by playing an innings of 72 runs. India won that match by 7 wickets.
In the absence of Laxman, Pujara won India in a debut test and won
Returned himself to be the option of Dravid
Pujara proved himself as an alternative to Dravid on the strength of his strong defense and gradually confirmed his place on number-3. He played several memorable innings in 99 Tests. Now see Pujara’s memorable innings in graphic …
Read further 5 memorable innings came out of Pujara’s bat …
- 206* and 41* | Ahmedabad, November 2012 Cheteshwar Pujara scored a double century against England in his sixth Test after his debut. In November 2012, England team came to India to play 4 Tests. In the first Test played in Ahmedabad, he got to see the huge form of Pujara. Pujara scored an unbeaten 206 runs in a batting of about eight and a half hours with the help of 21 fours. On the basis of this innings, India declared its first innings on the score of 521/8. In the second innings too, Pujara scored an unbeaten 41 and gave the team a win by 7 wickets.
- 145* | Colombo, August 2015 In 2014, Pujara was ruled out of the Test team due to poor form, but in August 2015 he got a chance to visit Sri Lanka again. Pujara opened the comeback game and played an unbeaten innings of 145 runs. He partnered with the bowlers and brought the team to 312 runs. In the second innings, the Indian bowlers performed brilliantly and Sri Lanka got a target of 386 runs. Cheteshwar Pujara during a century innings in Colombo. He was dismissed early in the second innings. Angelo Mathews scored a century from Sri Lanka, but could not win the team. India won the match by 117 runs on the basis of Pujara’s innings. India won this series 2–1 in Sri Lanka and from here Pujara became the backbone of the Indian Test team.
- 132* | Southampton, September 2018 In 2018, the Indian team went on a tour of England and fell 2–1 in the series after 3 matches. England were all out at 246 in the fourth Test, but India also lost 8 wickets at the score of 195. Pujara was standing on an end. He also partnered with fast bowlers Ishant Sharma and Jaspreet Bumrah here and took the team to 273 runs. Pujara scored an unbeaten 132 off 257 balls with the help of 16 fours. England batting better in the second innings and placed a big target in front of India. Team India tried to chase, but India lost the match by 60 runs after Moin Ali’s 4 wickets. Pujara’s innings in difficult circumstances made him the best batter of India in England as well.
- 123 and 71 | Adelaide, December 2018 In 2018, Pujara won the Test series to India with his batting in Australia. In the first Test, Pujara scored 123 runs and scored half the team. India could score 250 runs in the first innings. After Pujara’s score, the bowlers allotted Australia on a lower score. In the second innings too, Pujara took command and scored 71 runs to reach the team to 307 runs. Australia got a target of 323 runs. Which the Indian bowlers defended well and India won the match by 31 runs. Pujara scored 521 runs in this series and won 2 Tests to his team. He was also awarded the Player of the Series Award for this performance.
- 50 and 77 | Sydney, January 2021 Two of Pujara’s most memorable matches were seen in Australia 2 years ago. The score line was 1-1 after 2 matches in the 4 Test series. The third Test was played on a dangerous wicket of Sydney. Where Pujara scored 50 on 176 balls in the first innings and 77 runs on 205 balls in the second innings. He saved the bouncers of Kangaroo fast bowlers in both innings and supported Rishabh Pant even after 11 injuries on the body. On the basis of this innings, India got a Test match draw. Pujara drew the match by playing a struggling innings of 77 runs in the Sydney Test. Later India won the Brisbane Test and won the series 2–1
In the Brisbane Test after Sydney, Pujara also played several balls and hand over. He scored 25 on 94 balls in the first innings and 56 runs on 211 balls in the second innings. His innings increased Pant’s confidence. With the help of which India won the Test match and did the feat to win the Test series for the second consecutive time in Australia.
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Cheteshwar Pujara retires from all formats of cricket
Batsman Cheteshwar Pujara has retired from international cricket. He informed about retirement on social media on Sunday. Pujara played his last international match in June 2023 (Test). His international career was 15 years old. Pujara made his debut in international cricket in 2010. He made his debut against Australia in Bengaluru, which was a Test match. Read full news