Indian cricket team’s experienced batsman Cheteshwar Pujara’s bat is speaking loudly in the ongoing county season. Pujara has scored a century against Middlesex while playing for Sussex at the historic Lord’s ground.

Also, let us tell you that this is Pujara’s 65th century in first class cricket, while it is his 10th century for Sussex. So now he is just behind Sachin Tendulkar, Sunil Gavaskar (81) and Rahul Dravid (68) in terms of scoring the most centuries in first class cricket.

So, to reach this century, Pujara faced a total of 258 balls and hit a total of 12 fours during his brilliant century innings. Also, let us tell you that this is Pujara’s second century in the ongoing tournament. Earlier, he had played a brilliant innings of 113 runs against Derbyshire in the ongoing season, due to which Sussex won by 124 runs.

Also, let us tell you that recently Pujara became the fourth cricketer in the Indian cricket world to score more than 20 thousand runs in domestic cricket. 35-year-old Pujara achieved this feat by scoring runs in 260 matches at an average of 51.96.

Watch the video of Cheteshwar Pujara’s brilliant century

Sussex century number 🔟 for @cheteshwar1 pic.twitter.com/ctamzFD8ps

— Sussex Cricket (@SussexCCC) May 25, 2024

On the other hand, if we tell you about the County Championship Division Two match between Middlesex vs Sussex, then by lunch time on the second day, Sussex had scored 385 runs for the loss of 4 wickets after 121 overs in the first innings.

Cheteshwar Pujara is present at the crease with 127* runs and John Sipson with 117* runs. Tom Clarke (32), Tom Haynes (40) and Tom Allsup are out after scoring 11 runs. Talking about Middlesex’s bowling, Ethan Bamber has taken the maximum of 2 wickets so far, while Ryan Hingis and Henry Brooks have taken 1 wicket each.