Still something to offer, a gentle reminder from Cheteshwar Pujara ahead of the Border Gavaskar Trophy. Pujara have scored another century in domestic cricket, 66th First-Class ton for the veteran Indian middle order batsman to surpass legendary Brain Lara. Pujara out from national camp nearly one and half years.
Cheteshwar Pujara scored a century against Chhattisgarh while playing for Saurashtra in the second round of Ranji Trophy. Pujara faced 197 balls for this century. Chhattisgarh won the toss and scored a huge score of 578 runs in the first innings. In response, Saurashtra’s team lost 2 wickets for 81 runs. Then Pujara, who came to bat at number 3, played an important century for his team. This is his 25th century in the Ranji Trophy. At the same time, it is the 66th century of his first-class career. With this century, Pujara has also made history by leaving Brian Lara behind. Lara had scored 65 centuries in the first class.
Along with scoring a century against Chhattisgarh, Cheteshwar Pujara also completed 21 thousand runs in the first class. Pujara has now joined the top-4 Indian players who have scored the most runs in the first class. Sunil Gavaskar has scored the most runs in the first class. He has a total of 25834 runs to his name. Sachin Tendulkar is second with 25396 runs and Rahul Dravid is third with 23784 runs.
Pujara is fourth in this list, who has scored more than 21 thousand runs at an average of 50. Not only this, Pujara has also come third in the list of Indian players who have scored the most first-class centuries. In this list, Gavaskar and Sachin are jointly at number one with 81-81 centuries. At the same time, Dravid is second with 68 centuries and Pujara is third with 66 centuries.
This year he has played 16 first-class matches, in which he has scored 6 centuries. Pujara also scored a lot of runs in the last season of Ranji Trophy. He scored 829 runs in 8 matches at an average of 69.