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Cheteshwar Pujara's rare cricket records spreads across all formats from First-Class to T20 cricket! (BCCI/PTI/X)

T20 Century to List A Dominance: Cheteshwar Pujara’s top five unknown and rare records

August 25, 2025 13:17 IST

Cheteshwar Pujara records: From Tests to First Class, List A and T20 formats, Saurashtra stalwart Pujara had left an indelible mark in every format before hanging up his boots on Sunday after 20 years in professional cricket.

Sanju Samson blasted a 42-ball hundred in Kochi's last-ball win over Kollam in the KCL 2025 match on Sunday. (KCA)

‘Not easy to give up..’: Sanju Samson reacts after 42-ball hundred in thrilling last-ball win in KCL 2025 ahead of Asia Cup

August 25, 2025 10:45 IST

Picking up the Player of the Match award for his 121 off 51 deliveries, Sanju Samson also admitted that he was taken aback by the level of emerging talent from the state during the ongoing Kerala Cricket League.

India's Cheteshwar Pujara walks off the pitch after being given out caught behind off the bowling of Australia's Pat Cummins on the fourth day of the ICC World Test Championship Final between India and Australia at The Oval cricket ground in London, Saturday, June 10, 2023. (AP Photo)

Cheteshwar Pujara interview: ‘In tough times you need that spiritual power … I get strength.’Subscriber Only

August 26, 2025 21:47 IST

Pujara speaks to The Indian Express about the art of batting time, copping blows on the body and the routine he developed for keeping his eye on the ball.

Cheteshwar Pujara batted a whopping 672 and broke the record for most balls faced by an Indian in a Test innings. (Photo Credit: AP/File)

When Cheteshwar Pujara became the only Indian to face more than 500 balls in a Test innings and ground Australia to dust

August 24, 2025 23:15 IST

As Cheteshwar Pujara calls time on his prolific career, a look back at when he turned things around for India in the Test and in an incredibly competitive, and a particularly fraught, series at home against Australia.

Unadkat began his post by recalling a conversation with Pujara back in 2010. (Photo credit: Jayden Unadkat - X)

Cheteshwar Pujara retires: Jaydev Unadkat writes emotional post for Saurashtra teammate – ‘A journey that is nothing short of a fairy-tale’

August 24, 2025 22:44 IST

Jaydev Unadkar said that he is 'super proud although a bit emotional' as his colleague and friend called time on a stellar career.

Asia Cup 2025: India, Pakistan, UAE and Oman are in group A. (Sportzpics)

Dream11 pulls out, BCCI left without team sponsor before Asia CupSubscriber Only

August 25, 2025 08:24 IST

Dream 11 informed BCCI CEO Hemang Amin that they won't be able to continue the sponsorship after the Parliament recently passed a law that banned real money-based online games

Cheteshwar Pujara announced his retirement from all forms of Indian cricket on Sunday. (BCCI)

Ravi Shastri reveals why Cheteshwar Pujara was ‘real warrior’ of Indian Cricket Team

August 24, 2025 21:53 IST

Pujara’s traits as a ‘real warrior’ — as Shastri called him — were best demonstrated when Pujara scored 56 off 211 balls during India’s historic win at the Gabba in 2021.

Alongside Aishwary, Adriyan Karmakar set the Asian record in the junior event claiming gold medal with a score of 463.8 in the final.

Aishwary wins gold in 50m 3P rifle at Asian Shooting Championships, Adriyan creates junior Record

August 24, 2025 21:42 IST

Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar dominated the men's 50m rifle 3 positions competition to win the gold medal on Sunday.

No regrets, have been fortunate to have played for long time: Cheteshwar Pujara

August 24, 2025 20:44 IST

He made his Test debut in 2010 but it was after Rahul Dravid's retirement in 2012 that he made No.3 spot his own for the next decade.

Former IPL commissioner Lalit Modi gives an interview to ex-Australian cricketer Michael Clarke at Modi's home in Sardinia. (Screengrab via Beyond23 Cricket Podcast YouTube)

Lalit Modi’s predicts why cricket in USA will never work: ‘Does anyone watch basketball league in UK or Africa or India?’

August 25, 2025 14:14 IST

The 61-year-old explained that even if there are a lot of Indians residing in America, they'll only shell out the big bucks to watch big name stars play.

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Shashi Tharoor says Cheteshwar Pujara deserved dignified farewell worthy of his outstanding Test career for India

August 24, 2025 20:20 IST

Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor who said that the 37-year-old Pujara deserved a more dignified farewell than what he was afforded.

Cheteshwar pujara steve nickname by Jack Brooks

Why Cheteshwar Pujara was called ‘Steve’ by seamer Jack Brooks (who later apologised for the nickname)

August 24, 2025 18:56 IST

On Sunday, Pujara hung up his boots from all forms of Indian cricket after having played his last match for the country in 2023.

File image of Cheteshwar Pujara, his wife Puja, Anil Kumble and Rohit Sharma during the book launch of The Diary of a Cricketer's Wife' penned by Pujara's wife, Puja, in Mumbai. (Express Photo by Devendra Pandey)

Rohit Sharma’s funny Pujara story from U-14 days: ‘Mummy kya karu, woh ladka 3 din batting karta hai’

August 25, 2025 08:16 IST

Rohit Sharma also revealed that once during a India A tour of West Indies, Pujara had been mugged when he went out of the hotel at night ignoring the advice of the other players like Sharma.

Sourav Ganguly succeeds Jonathan Trott as the head coach for Pretoria Capitals. (SA20)

Sourav Ganguly signs up for first coaching stint, named head coach of Pretoria Capitals for SA20 2026 season

August 24, 2025 15:50 IST

Sourav Ganguly's appointment was announced a day after former England batter Jonathan Trott stepped down from the head coach's role at the Pretoria Capitals.

Cheteshwar Pujara announced his retirement on Sunday, prompting special reactions from his teammates and former cricketers. (BCCI)

‘Last of his kind’: From Tendulkar to Gambhir and Pant, teammates and legends react to Cheteshwar Pujara’s retirement

August 24, 2025 15:49 IST

Finishing as India's second-highest run-scorer at number three behind Dravid, Cheteshwar Pujara's 66 First Class centuries are also only surpassed by a handful of Indian legends in Sachin Tendulkar (81), Sunil Gavaskar (81) and Dravid himself (68)

Travis Head, Mitch Marsh and Cam Green struck hundreds as Australia equalled a rare world record. (Reuters)

Australia equal rare ODI world record with 431-run score and Head-Marsh-Green centuries against South Africa

August 24, 2025 13:43 IST

AUS vs SA 3rd ODI: Australia produced only the second instance across 4897 ODIs in history where all the top-three batters recorded a century in an innings.

Cheteshwar Pujara retires: ‘As a little boy from the small town of Rajkot, I set out to aim for the stars…’

August 24, 2025 13:14 IST

Pujara made his Test debut against Australia in Bengaluru back in October 2010 and went on to play many crucial knocks against one of the best sides in the world, most memorably starring in a hard-fought series win Down Under.

Cheteshwar Pujara bowed out as much of a match-winner as any contemporary, building 58 Indian wins with 4,408 runs across 13 years, brick-by-brick. (Sportzpics)

Cheteshwar Pujara retires: Nearly 30 percent of Indian team’s runs were scored when he was at the crease, faced over 16 percent of deliveriesSubscriber Only

August 26, 2025 21:48 IST

Cheteshwar Pujara batted for 124.14 minutes per innings on an average, third most time spend at the crease among India's modern batting greats - only Rahul Dravid (154.3) and Sachin Tendulkar (125.5) were ahead.

Cheteshwar Pujara retires: The world took time to appreciate Cheteshwar’s method, but the Pujaras stuck to their philosophy of grind and gritSubscriber Only

August 26, 2025 21:48 IST

Cheteshwar Pujara is an outlier, the lone specialist batsman who isn’t from a major metro. In the crowd of achievers from Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore, Hyderabad – he is the lone small-towner

Cheteshwar Pujara retires: Why this era of Test batsmanship was Pujara’s as much as it was Virat Kohli’sSubscriber Only

August 26, 2025 21:49 IST

Like most great batsmen of his era, Cheteshwar Pujara conserved his finest for Australia. Against them, home and away, he averaged 49.38 and made five hundreds. Rahul Dravid, a great No.3, mustered 38.67 and two hundreds. He aggregated 43.47 in matches India won overseas; Kohli's corresponding average was 40.57

AUS vs SA Cricket Score, 3rd ODI Highlights: Australia beat South Africa by 276 runs in Mackay

August 25, 2025 00:20 IST

Australia vs South Africa 3rd ODI Match Today Highlights: SA are set a massive 432-run chase against AUS as Travis Head, Mitchell Marsh and Cam Green equalled the world record with centuries in Mackay

Bronco Test vs Yo-Yo Test: R Ashwin and Soham Desai reveal ‘big problem’ with Indian cricket’s fitness regime eras

August 24, 2025 08:00 IST

On his YouTube podcast, Ash Ki Baat Indian cricketer Ravichandran Ashwin and former India strength and conditioning coach Soham Desai broke down the newly-introduced Bronco Test and the complexities of India's fitness "eras".