The second match of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy Test Series, 2023 will be played between India and Australia from Friday 17 February in Delhi. This match will be the 100th Test match of India’s senior batsman Cheteshwar Pujara’s Test career. He will be the second player in the current Test team, who has made a record of playing 100 matches in Test cricket.
Significantly, Team India’s great batsman and former skipper Virat Kohli has played more than 100 Test matches. At the same time, Cheteshwar Pujara will also touch this figure in the current team. Pujara played his first Test match against Australia in the year 2010. Virat Kohli has played 105 Test matches, and the Delhi Test will be the 106th match of his career.
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Cheteshwar Pujara’s Test record against Australia
Cheteshwar Pujara has played a total of 21 Test matches against Australia so far, in which he has scored 1900 runs at an average of 52.77. His 5 centuries and 10 half-centuries are also included in this figure. Remind you that in the Test series played in Australia tour of India in the year 2018-19 (AUS vs IND Test Series, 2018-19 Border Gavaskar Trophy India on Australia Tour) Pujara scored 521 runs in 4 Tests and India won the first Test series in Australia. If seen, Pujara has had a great performance against Australia.
Talking about the latest Test series, in the match played in Nagpur of this series, Cheteshwar Pujara was able to play only 14 balls and got out on a personal score of 7 runs.
Talking about the overall Test career, Cheteshwar Pujara has scored 7021 runs in his 99 Test matches at an average of 44.15. This figure also includes 19 centuries and 34 half-centuries from his bat.
-Vinay Kumar