Cheteshwar Pujara’s 100th Test match: gets special Cap from Sunil Gavaskar

New Delhi: Indian cricketer Cheteshwar Pujara became the 13th Indian player to play 100 Tests by taking the field in the second match of the Border-Gavaskar Test series against Australia. Cheteshwar Pujara 100th Test match: Gets 100th Test Cap from Gavaskar.

Former Indian cricketer Sunil Gavaskar made Pujara’s 100th Test match memorable by giving him a special cap. Indian team players and Pujara’s family members were present on the occasion.

13th Player Indian player to achieve this feet:

Sachin Tendulkar (200), Rahul Dravid (163), VVS Laxman (134), Anil Kumble (132), Kapil Dev (131), Sunil Gavaskar (125), Dilip Vengsarkar (116), Sourav Ganguly (113), Virat Kohli (106*), Ishanth Sharma (105*), Harbhajan Singh (103), Virender Sehwag (103) and Cheteshwar Pujara (100*) thus a total of 13 players in India’s Test history have made history by scoring a hundred or more matches.

Sachin Tendulkar holds the distinction of playing the most number of matches by playing 200 Test matches. Similarly, he is the player who scored the highest number of centuries (51). Out of the 13 players, Virat Kohli, Cheteshwar Pujara and Ishant Sharma are currently playing. Cheteshwar Pujara scored 7021 runs at an average of 44.15, including 19 centuries and 34 fifties. 206* is Pujara’s personal highest score.

A patient player, Cheteshwar Pujara is a player who helps the team when it is in trouble. A confident player on foreign pitches. Cheteshwar Pujara, who has made his mark in Ranji and county cricket as well, is known for his patience after Rahul Dravid.

Cheteshwar Pujara, who has scored 16 double centuries in first-class cricket, has become the sixth player in the world to achieve this feat. In 2017, in the Test match against Australia in Ranchi, Rahul Dravid’s feat was reversed by facing 525 balls. He became the first Indian to face the most balls in a Test innings.

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