Cricketer Cheteshwar Pujara Biography

 

 

Cheteshwar Pujara is an Indian cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman who plays for Saurashtra in domestic cricket and Royal Challenger Bangalore in the IPL.

 Indian Cricketer Cheteshwar Pujara Biography 

Cheteshwar Pujara was born on 25 January 1988 in Rajkot. His father Arvind Shivlal Pujara was a Ranji player who played for Saurashtra.

Cheteshwar Pujara has completed his BBA.

Pujara is the son of first-class cricketer Arvind Pujara and nephew of Bipin Pujara. Both Arvind Pujara and Bipin Pujara played for Saurashtra in the Ranji Trophy.

Cheteshwar Pujara married Pooja Pabri on 13 February 2013 in Rajkot.

Cheteshwar Pujara Career

Cheteshwar Pujara has a great interest in cricket. He had a triple century in his name in the under-14 team at a young age. He scored a double century against England in the Under-19s. In 2005, he started his career in cricket.

He got a long break in 2006, starting his cricket career in 2005. After this, he also won the title of Man of the Series by scoring 350 runs in the Under-19 World Cup.

He scored unbeaten innings of 97 runs against the West Indies in the quarter-finals and 129 runs in the semi-finals and this also helped India win that match by a huge margin of 234 runs.

Appeared in a Test match in Bangalore in October 2010. In October 2011, the BCCI awarded him a C-grade National Contract.

Whereas in August 2012 he made a comeback in Test cricket against New Zealand and also scored a century. He then scored his first double century against England in November 2012.

He was the highest run-scorer in the 2012 NKP Salve Challenger Trophy, scoring 2 centuries and 1 half-century. And then he scored his second double century against Australia in March 2013.

India won both the double-century matches they scored and was also awarded the Man of the Match.