Full name Cheteshwar Arvind Pujara
Born January 25, 1988, Rajkot, Gujarat
Current age 21 years 290 days
Major teams India, India Green, India Under-19s, Kolkata Knight Riders, Saurashtra, Saurashtra Under-16s, Saurashtra Under-19s
Playing role Batsman
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Legbreak
| Mat | Inns | NO | Runs | HS | Ave | BF | SR | 100 | 50 | 4s | 6s | Ct | St | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| First-class | 40 | 64 | 10 | 2862 | 302* | 53.00 | 11 | 7 | 19 | 0 | ||||
| List A | 29 | 29 | 6 | 1063 | 109* | 46.21 | 1369 | 77.64 | 2 | 8 | 96 | 11 | 8 | 0 |
| Twenty20 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 110 | 43* | 36.66 | 64 | 171.87 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| Mat | Inns | Balls | Runs | Wkts | BBI | BBM | Ave | Econ | SR | 4w | 5w | 10 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| First-class | 40 | 10 | 153 | 83 | 5 | 2/4 | 2/4 | 16.60 | 3.25 | 30.6 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| List A | 29 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Twenty20 | 4 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| First-class debut | Saurashtra v Vidarbha at Rajkot, Dec 17-20, 2005 scorecard |
| Last First-class | South Zone v West Zone at Chennai, Feb 5-9, 2009 scorecard |
| List A debut | Central Zone v West Zone at Gwalior, Feb 25, 2006 scorecard |
| Last List A | East Zone v West Zone at Cuttack, Mar 18, 2009 scorecard |
| Twenty20 debut | Maharashtra v Saurashtra at Mumbai (BS), Apr 4, 2007 scorecard |
| Last Twenty20 | Gujarat v Saurashtra at Mumbai, Apr 7, 2007 scorecard |
Son and pupil of former Ranji player Arvind Pujara, Cheteshwar finished as the Under-19 World Cup's highest scorer with 349 runs at an average of 116. He'd already displayed his hunger for big scores with a triple-century against Baroda at Under-14 level, a 211 against England Under-19, and 145 for Saurashtra in just his second first-class match. In the World Cup, his 97 against West Indies and unbeaten 129 against England - an almost faultless one-day innings - took him to the top of the run-charts, past his big-scoring team-mates Gaurav Dhiman and Rohit Sharma. Pujara's gameplan is simple and he plays within his limitations. His technique is classical; upright at the crease and confident through both sides of the field. One of the top run-getters in the 2007-08 Ranji Trophy season, Pujara signed on with the Kolkata Knight Riders, of the lucrative Indian Premier League, in March 2008. In October that year he was picked for the Challenger Trophy and later scored two triple-hundreds for Saurashtra in an Under-22 tournament. He followed that up with another triple-century against Orissa in the 2008-09 Ranji Trophy.
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Feb 4, 2009
Wasim Jaffer, Cheteshwar Pujara and Siddharth Trivedi chat with other West Zone players
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Dec 29, 2008
Cheteshwar Pujara executes the sweep
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Dec 29, 2008
Cheteshwar Pujara watches as the ball bounces off the pitch
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