While the Indian players are busy in the Indian Premier League 2023, the team’s red-ball star Cheteshwar Pujara has started preparing for the World Test Championship Final against Australia. The match will be played in June at The Oval.
Pujara is playing in the county season, where he is a part of Sussex. He started the season on a solid note and hit his second hundred in three games.
Batting at number 4, Pujara scored 151 off 238 deliveries, which included 20 fours and 2 sixes against Gloucestershire. The right-hand batter was the highest run-scorer from his side as Sussex declared their innings at 455/5.
Pujara also surpassed Wasim Jaffer in the list of Indian batters with the most number of first-class tons. He has 58 hundreds and is fourth on the list, headed by Sachin Tendulkar. The former player has 81 first-class tons.
Pujara has smashed 332 runs from five innings and is leading the batting charts in County Championship Division Two 2023