Cheteshwar Pujara: Cheteshwar Pujara is known for his slow and durable batting. He loved spending time at the crease. His defense was so solid that it was very difficult to penetrate, due to which he was called the new 'The Wall' of India. Due to his defense and ability to stay at the crease, he has not only won many matches for Team India but has also helped in drawing important matches.

Solid batting by Cheteshwar Pujara

Hardly anyone can forget his Sydney and Gabba innings in Australia. It was because of his innings that India was able to draw in those matches whereas India got victory in the Gabba Test match. He has helped his team win matches by batting for long periods in domestic cricket. In this article, we will know about one such innings of Pujara in which Pujara batted at the crease for 548 minutes and faced 427 balls.

Actually this match was played between Saurashtra and Karnataka in Rajkot in 2013. In this match, Saurashtra won the toss and batted first. Batting first, Saurashtra scored 469 runs. In which Arpit Vasavada and Sheldon Jackson scored the maximum runs for Saurashtra. Arpit scored a century while Jackson scored a half-century. For Karnataka, Krishnappa Gautham took the maximum of three wickets.

Manish's incredible innings

Against Saurashtra's mountain target, Karnataka's opening batsmen KL Rahul and Robin Uthappa made a good partnership for the first wicket. But after both of them were out, Manish Pandey along with other batsmen tried to take the score closer to Saurashtra's first innings score. Manish played an inning of 177 runs in this match. Due to which Karnataka team was successful in scoring 396 runs. For Saurashtra, Dharmendra Singh Jadeja, Vishal Joshi and Kamlesh took three wickets each.

Saurashtra did not make a good start in their second innings. But after that Pujara settled at one end and made a partnership of 343 runs with Jackson. Pujara did not stop here and scored a triple century in this innings and batted for 548 minutes. He scored 352 runs in his innings which included 49 fours and 1 six. Saurashtra scored 718 runs at the loss of 9 wickets in the second innings.

Cheteshwar Pujara's career was like this

If we talk about Pujara's career, then Pujara has scored 7195 runs in 176 innings of 103 test matches at an average of 43.60. During this period he had scored 19 centuries and 35 half-centuries.