Personal Information

Full NameCheteshwar Arvind Pujara
BornJanuary 25, 1988 Rajkot, Gujarat
Age36 Years, 1 Months, 22 Days
National SideIndia
Batting StyleRight Handed
BowlingLeg break
SportCricket

Ranking

TestODIT20
Batting34--
Bowling---

Man of the Match

TestODIT20World CupCL
60---

Career Information

Teams PlayedIndia, Derbyshire, Gloucestershire, India A, India B, India Blue, Indian Board Presidents XI, India Green, Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire, Rest of India, West Zone, Yorkshire, Royal Challengers Bangalore, Kolkata Knight Riders, Punjab Kings, Chennai Super Kings, India Under-19, Sussex, Saurashtra, Mumbai A, Zalawad Royals, Indians
Career Span

Cheteshwar Arvind Pujara Overall Stats

Batting & Fielding Performance

MIN/ORHS100s50s4s6sAVGS/RCTSTDucksR/O
Test
103176117195206* v ENG19358631643.6044.36660129
ODI
5505127 v BAN004010.2039.23--20
IPL
3022339051 v PBKS0150420.5299.746012
ttwenty_non_domestic
55114064* v HH0112335.00102.942000

Bowling Performance

IOMRWBest3s5sAVGE/RS/RMtc
Test
220300/1 v AUS00-1.50-2

Cheteshwar Arvind Pujara Profile

Even before he made his international debut for India, Cheteshwar Pujara was touted as a batting genius capable enough of replacing the great batsman Rahul Dravid, and was seen as one of the most promising talents in the country. While most modern Indian cricketers have swashbuckling style of play, Pujara possesses the rare, old-school, Dravid-like temperament and technique.

Pujara was a prolific run-machine in every grade of cricket since childhood and starred in India's ICC U19 Cricket World Cup campaign in 2006. After a successful 2007-08 Ranji season, the Saurashtra lad was captured by Kolkata for the inaugural Indian T20 League season in 2008, followed by Bangalore. Two years later, the youngster was already representing India in whites, scoring a gritty 72 off just 89 balls on debut against Australia in a fourth-innings run chase. However, he was unfortunate to miss out an entire year in 2011 due to a knee injury. The youngster is known to have a huge appetite for runs, evident from the number of triple centuries he has to his name at the domestic level. Centuries in the series against the touring English side proved that he was here to stay. Yet to make it as a regular in the ODI side, he managed to grab the selectors' attention with some pretty brisk knocks in List A cricket.

Pujara's strengths are his high levels of concentration and his ability to grind opposition bowlers. He is equally strong on both sides of the wicket and in the T20 age, he refreshingly has a technique suited to the longer format.