Cheteshwar Pujara - What the numbers say

#3 First-class record: As good as it gets

He has scored freely in the domestic scene

Cheteshwar Pujara has an extremely enviable first-class record. Having played 135 first-class matches and batted in 221 first-class innings, the Saurashtra batsman has racked up monstrous numbers. His 10845 first-class runs is second only to Gambhir’s 14,120 amongst all members of the current Indian Test squad.

His average of 57.38 is also second, very marginally, to Ajinkya Rahane’s 57.42, and his highest score of 352 tops the chart when compared to other players in the current squad.

Pujara has 71 fifty-plus scores in first-class cricket, and 35 of them are centuries, making for an extremely efficient 50-to-100 conversion rate. Pujara has shown tremendous concentration and temperament and has what it takes to bat long hours and through sessions to produce those big scores.

Out of his 9 test centuries, 4 are scores of 150-plus including 2 double centuries (against England and Australia). He also has 3 man-of-the-match awards to his name, and all three matches where he has won these awards produced results in India’s favour.

Pujara has also scored 3 triple-centuries and 10 double-centuries in first-class cricket, and is the first Indian to score a double hundred against the newly introduced pink ball in the final of the Duleep Trophy in September this year.