5 life lessons from Cheteshwar Pujara

#4 No envious feeling with anyone

Pujara is surrounded by masterful limited overs batsmen in the Indian side who can plunder the white ball. All his contemporaries are having lavish IPL contracts. He is also aware of the fact that a few underperformers in the Test squad shall earn crores in a 50-day period, at a time during which he plays county cricket in the UK to hone his batting skills.

He probably won't be a part of the 50-over World Cup too in England. In spite of all these things going against him, Pujara has never lamented about this. Pujara tried his luck in the IPL till 2014 but tasted no success as his game is built upon technical punches and drives not meant for the power game.

He puts a heavy price on his Test batting and is one of the rare custodians of the good old defensive batting technique. Ideally, the BCCI should take special care of Pujara financially as he holds a key to this batting line-up when touring abroad.