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List of international cricket centuries by Cheteshwar Pujara edit

 
Cheteshwar Pujara has made 18 centuries for India

Cheteshwar Pujara is an Indian cricketer who has made 18 centuries in Test matches for India. He is a right-handed batsman who plays domestically for Saurashtra, making his first class debut in December 2005.[1] He made his Test debut in October 2010 at Bangalore, before making his ODI debut in 2013 at Bulawayo.[2] As of February 2020 Pujara is ranked 7th on the ICC Test player rankings.

Pujara scored his first international century against New Zealand at Hyderabad, scoring 159 before being dismissed by Jeetan Patel. Pujara's high score came at Ahmedabad, with Pujara scoring 206* in the first innings, and then 41* in the second as India cruised to a 9 wicket win.[3] He finished as highest run scorer on India's 2013 tour of South Africa, helping to cement his place in the squad.[4] Pujara struggled for form during India's 2014 tour of England, struggling especially against the seam movement that is prevalent in English conditions,[5] but returned to form with a patient 145* off 289 balls at Colombo.[6] He then average over 60 in India's long 2016/17 home season, making four centuries across thirteen matches.[7] Pujara at one point was known as a home track bully,[8] but went a long way to throwing off this tag with impressive series in England and Australia from 2018 to 2019.[9]

Pujara is known for his solid defensive technique and temperament that allows him to play long innings in Test cricket. He regularly grinds down attacks with a lot of leaves and blocks early in his innings before cashing in with big scores. He likes to use his feet against spinners but seldom hits aerially, and has hit only 14 sixes in 124 innings.[10] Pujara holds the record for the most balls faced in a Test match innings for an Indian batsman with 525 in his century against Australia in 2017.[11] Pujara is regularly compared with former Indian batsman Rahul Dravid, and like Dravid he mainly bats at 3 in Tests.[12]

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Test Centuries scored by Cheteshwar Pujara
No. Score Against Pos. Inn. Test Venue H/A Date Result Ref
1 159   New Zealand 3 1 1/2   Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium, Hyderabad Home 23 August 2012 Won [13]
2 206* †   England 3 1 1/4   Sardar Patel Stadium, Ahmedabad Home 15 November 2012 Won [14]
3 135   England 3 1 2/4   Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai Home 23 November 2012 Lost [15]
4 204 †   Australia 3 2 2/4   Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium, Hyderabad Home 02 March 2013 Won [16]
5 113   West Indies 3 2 2/2   Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai Home 14 November 2013 Won [17]
6 153   South Africa 3 3 1/2   Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg Away 18 December 2013 Drawn [18]
7 145* †   Sri Lanka 2 1 3/3   Sinhalese Sports Club, Colombo Away 28 August 2015 Won [19]
8 101*   New Zealand 3 3 3/3   Holkar Cricket Stadium, Indore Home 08 October 2016 Won [20]
9 124   England 3 2 1/5   Saurashtra Cricket Association Stadium, Rajkot Home 09 November 2016 Drawn [21]
10 119   England 3 1 2/5   ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium, Visakhapatnam Home 17 November 2016 Won [22]
11 202 †   Australia 3 2 3/4   JSCA International Stadium, Ranchi Home 16 March 2017 Drawn [23]
12 153   Sri Lanka 3 1 1/3   Galle International Stadium, Galle Away 26 July 2017 Won [24]
13 133   Sri Lanka 3 1 2/3   Sinhalese Sports Club, Colombo Away 03 August 2017 Won [25]
14 143   Sri Lanka 3 2 2/3   Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium, Nagpur Home 24 November 2017 Won [26]
15 132*   England 3 2 4/5   Rose Bowl, Southampton Away 30 August 2018 Lost [27]
16 123 †   Australia 3 1 1/4   Adelaide Oval, Adelaide Away 06 December 2018 Won [28]
17 106   Australia 3 1 3/4   Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne Away 26 December 2018 Won [29]
18 193 †   Australia 3 1 4/4   Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney Away 03 July 2019 Drawn [30]

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