Vikrant Shekhawat : Feb 10, 2024, 06:00 AM
Cheteshwar Pujara: Cheteshwar Pujara, who is out of the Indian Test team, is continuously claiming his return to Team India. After the defeat of the Indian team in the final match of the World Test Championship held in the year 2023, Pujara was shown the way out of the team due to his poor form. Since then he has been continuously trying to make a comeback. Now in this Ranji season, Pujara's bat is seen speaking very well, after which he has also increased the headache of the selectors. Team India is yet to be announced for the last three matches of the ongoing Test series against England, in which ignoring Pujara's form is not going to be an easy task for the selectors.Played a brilliant inning of 110 runs against Rajasthan.In the Ranji Trophy 2024 season, the match is being played between Rajasthan and Saurashtra in Elite Group A. On the first day of this match, Saurashtra team had lost three wickets till the score of 74. From here Cheteshwar Pujara handled the innings from one end and took the team to a strong position. However, Pujara lost his wicket on the third ball of the last over of the day on a personal score of 110. Saurashtra team managed to score 242 runs at the loss of 4 wickets on the first day. This was the second century from the bat of Pujara in this Ranji season.Pujara's performance so far this Ranji season has been like thisIf we look at the performance of Cheteshwar Pujara in this season of Ranji, he has scored 648 runs at an average of 81 while batting in 9 innings of 6 matches. During this period, while he has seen 2 century innings with his bat, Pujara has also been successful in scoring 2 half-centuries. However, during this period, Pujara has returned to the pavilion without even opening his account in one innings.