Former chief selector of India MSK Prasad believes that Team India will miss Cheteshwar Pujara a lot in the upcoming 5-match Test series against Australia. Let us tell you that the five-match Test series between Team India and Australia is starting from November 22. The Board of Control for Cricket in India has recently announced Team India for the upcoming 5 match test series. In the list of experienced batsmen, only the names of Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli and KL Rahul are there.

Many people were quite surprised to see that experienced player Cheteshwar Pujara has not been included in Team India in the upcoming 5-match Test series. Cheteshwar Pujara’s performance in international cricket has always been excellent and even now the great batsman is in his best form. Recently, Cheteshwar Pujara scored his 9th double century in an important Ranji Trophy match against Chhattisgarh.

MSK Prasad said, ‘Cheteshwar Pujara recently scored a double century in Ranji Trophy. He also has experience and the strength that Team India needs in Australia would also be provided by Pujara. I think that if he had to select Nitish Reddy, he would have played the young player in at least one match for India A.

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Let us tell you that Cheteshwar Pujara’s record in Australia has been tremendous. He has scored 993 runs in 11 matches at an average above 47, which includes three centuries and five half-centuries. On the last day of the fourth Test match of the 2020-21 series, Cheteshwar Pujara played a valuable inning of 56 runs at the Gabba in Brisbane, due to which even the Australian bowlers got quite worried.

Team India had won this test series by 2-1. Cheteshwar Pujara failed to show a strong performance in the final of the World Test Championship 2023 and after that he was never included in Team India.