Cheteshwar Pujara's Cricket Career Highlights

Test Career

• 7195 runs scored in Tests, making him one of the eight India batters to aggregate over 7000 runs in the format.
• 6529 of Pujara's Test runs came at No.3, featuring 18 hundreds.
• 18 – Pujara took just 18 innings to complete 1000 runs in the format, the third-fastest for India.
• 11 – Pujara featured in India's 11 Test wins in SENA countries, the most for anyone.

Notable Performances

• 202 runs in a Test innings against Australia in Ranchi in 2017, facing 525 balls.
• 1258 balls faced by Pujara in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2018/19 in Australia, the second-most by an India batter in a four-match Test series.
• 4 instances of an India opener carrying his bat through a completed innings in Tests, Pujara accounting for the most recent of those.

Records

• 1296 – One of the most frequent deliveries in Test cricket in recent years was Nathan Lyon to Cheteshwar Pujara, with Pujara falling to Lyon 13 times.
• 571 runs scored by Pujara against Nathan Lyon, averaging 43.92.

First-Class Career

• 21301 runs aggregated by Pujara in first-class cricket with 66 hundreds.
• 18 first-class double centuries by Pujara is the fourth-most in the format ever.
• 3 first-class triple tons by Pujara is the joint-most by an Indian in first-class cricket.