Pujara’s bat is making noise in Ranji Trophy, showed mirror to selectors by scoring double century
Cheteshwar Pujara (Image Credit- Twitter Indian cricket team’s experienced batsman Cheteshwar Pujara has made a strong case for his comeback in Test cricket by scoring a record double century in Ranji Trophy. Pujara, playing for Saurashtra against Jharkhand in Rajkot, scored his 17th double century in first-class cricket during a Ranji Trophy match. Let us tell you that India will face England in the five-match Test series starting from January 25 and the team is expected to be announced soon. This double century can play an important role in the selection of Cheteshwar Pujara and considering his recent form, he can get a place in Team India for the upcoming Test series. Pujara scored his 17th century in first class cricket With his 17th double century, Pujara moved into joint fourth place with Herbert Sutcliffe and Mark Ramprakash in the list of most double centuries in first-class cricket. Sir Donald Bradman tops this list with 37 double centuries and England’s Wally Hammond is at second place with 36 double centuries. ! A spectacular 2⃣0⃣0⃣ in Rajkot from the Saurashtra batter! Follow the match ▶️ https://t.co/xYOBkksyYt#RanjiTrophy , #SAUvJHA , @IDFCFIRSTBank , @saucricket , @cheteshwar1 pic.twitter.com/ofLZSf2qcl — BCCI Domestic (@BCCIDomestic) January 7, 2024 This was Cheteshwar Pujara’s 61st century in first class cricket, apart from this he has also scored 77 half-centuries. Let us tell you that these statistics of Pujara also include Test records, because Test cricket statistics are also included in first class cricket. If Pujara scores some more big innings this season, then he is going to stake a claim to be in the Test team again. Pujara was dropped from the test team Pujara also played List A cricket for Saurashtra in November-December 2023, but his performance in the Vijay Hazare Trophy was not good. Earlier, he had not performed well in the final of the World Test Championship 2023, due to which he was not selected in Team India for the West Indies tour and recently on the South Africa tour also, Shubman Gill played at number three. Also read: So can Steve Smith get an important role in the Australian team?
Ranji Trophy 2024: This Hyderabad batsman stole the show by scoring a double century in the ongoing season.
Hyderabad won this match against the opposing team by an innings and 194 runs. Ranji Trophy 2024 (Image Credit- Twitter X) The ongoing season of Ranji Trophy, which started from January 5, has started on a grand note. Let us tell you that in the Hyderabad vs Nagaland match, a player has made headlines by scoring a double century. So, thanks to this innings, Hyderabad has achieved a huge victory over Nagaland. Let us tell you that in this match, Rahul Singh Gehlot, who played in the middle order for Hyderabad, made headlines by playing an inning of 214 runs. In this brilliant innings, Rahul has hit 23 fours and 9 brilliant sixes. Ranji Trophy 2023-24 Hyderabad vs Nagaland match status: If we tell you about this match played at Nagaland Cricket Stadium in Dimapur, Nagaland won the toss and decided to bowl first, which proved to be completely wrong for them. Let us tell you that batting first, Hyderabad declared its first innings at 474 runs at the loss of 5 wickets after 76.4 overs. Apart from Rahul Singh (214), captain Tilak Verma played an unbeaten century of 100 runs for Hyderabad, while Tanmay Agarwal played a brilliant inning of 80 runs. After this, in front of the excellent bowling of Hyderabad, Nagaland’s first innings was all out for 153 runs in 51.3 overs. Only wicketkeeper Sumit Kumar could play the best innings of 62 runs for Nagaland. So, after being all out on such a low score, Nagaland was forced to follow on. After this, he could not show anything special in the second innings and this time he was all out for just 127 runs in 34.5 overs. In the second innings for Hyderabad, Chama V Milind took 4 wickets while Tanay Thangarajan took 3 wickets. Record 🚨: Rahul Singh Gahlaut smashed a 143 balls Double hundred in Ranji Trophy v Nagaland. This is the second fasted double century in Ranji Trophy history. Fastest 200 in Ranji Trophy –Ravi Shastri: 123 balls vs Baroda #RanjiTrophy pic.twitter.com/EWLK3j3G2t — Varun Giri (@Varungiri0) January 5, 2024 Also read- IND-W vs AUS-W: ‘This is a big change in the approach of the Indian team’ Saba Karim after the explosive win by 9 wickets against Australia. 5 players who have scored the most centuries while opening in all formats of cricket Those 5 memorable innings of David Warner in Test cricket which are impossible to forget These 5 star cricketers can earn crores even by modeling IPL 2024: After taking over the captaincy of MI, Hardik Pandya will do whatever he wants, see playing XI 5 test matches which ended in the fewest overs IPL 2024: This strong playing XI of RCB will now bring the trophy to the franchise. Top 10 teams making lowest scores against India in Test cricket These 5 Indian batsmen have never been able to score a Test century in South Africa These 10 big records will be broken in international cricket in 2023 7 big pictures of the year 2023 which made headlines