Cheteshwar Pujara: Cheteshwar Pujara is enjoying county cricket after being dropped from the Indian Take a look at crew because of poor type after which going unsold within the IPL mega public sale. He’s enjoying for Sussex in County Championship Division 2. Taking part in for this crew, he has scored 4 consecutive centuries in 4 matches of this season. Pujara scored his fourth century within the ongoing match in opposition to the Middlesex crew. The video of a shot of Pujara on this match has additionally turn out to be fairly a shadow on social media. This video is of one among his upper-cut sixes, which hit him to Pakistani quick bowler Shaheen Afridi, who was bowling for Middlesex.
On Saturday, when Pujara had come to the crease on the third day of the match, Shaheen Afridi was put to bowl in entrance of him. Shaheen bowled a bouncer to Pujara on the off facet, on which Pujara performed an upper-cut shot and despatched the ball straight throughout the boundary line. This shot of Pujara is being preferred lots on social media.
Higher reduce six from Pujara to Shaheen Afridi #CountyCricket2022 #IPL2022 pic.twitter.com/rFcMXY6RPx
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Cheteshwar Pujara, who has been out of shape for a very long time in worldwide cricket, is making a splash in county cricket. He has now scored a century in opposition to Middlesex after Derbyshire, Worcestershire and Durham. On this season of County Championship, Pujara’s 4 centuries additionally embody two double centuries.
Veteran participant Pujara didn’t discover any purchaser within the IPL mega public sale this time. It’s because he was not in a position to play huge innings for a very long time. He final scored a century in worldwide cricket in January 2019. He scored this century within the Sydney Take a look at in opposition to Australia. For the reason that starting of the yr 2020 in Take a look at cricket, he has been in a position to rating runs at a median of simply 26.29.
He flopped badly through the Take a look at sequence in opposition to South Africa in December-January. He was in a position to rating 124 runs in 6 innings of three Take a look at matches at a median of simply 20.66. He was dominated out of the Take a look at sequence in opposition to Sri Lanka because of poor type. He was suggested to play home event Ranji Trophy to regain the momentum however right here too Pujara couldn’t present something particular.
Pujara is the second Indian to attain a double century in county cricket
Pujara scored a double century on this season in opposition to Derbyshire. He’s the second participant to achieve this determine in county cricket. Earlier than him, solely former India captain Mohammad Azharuddin had scored double centuries in county cricket in 1991 and 1995.
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