Cheteshwar Pujara: Five years after being nominated for the honour, Indian batter Cheteshwar Pujara has acquired the distinguished Arjuna award.
Due to his commitments together with his cricket group, Pujara was unable to attend the awards occasion in 2017. However, the ace batsman, who has performed many match-winning knocks for India and is named a check batsman large lastly acquired his arms on the award after ready for over 5 years. Many had earlier speculated if all the pieces is ok as a result of he had not acquired the award for lengthy.
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Anurag Thakur offered him the award
Pujara, who represents Saurashtra in home cricket, is within the capital for the Vijay Hazare Trophy. He will journey with the India A group to Bangladesh forward of the two-match Test sequence within the neighbouring nation subsequent month. Following excellent efficiency in county cricket, Pujara had returned to the Indian group.
Taking to Twitter, Pujara wrote, “Thankful to @IndiaSports @BCCI and @ianuragthakur to organise and handover the Arjuna Award belatedly, which I could not collect the year it was awarded to me due to my cricket commitments. Honoured and grateful.”
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Cheteshwar Pujara ‘s skilled profession
Pujara has scored 6792 runs in 96 Test matches, with the very best rating of 206 and a mean of 43.81. These runs embody 18 centuries and 33 fifties.
In his 5 ODI matches to this point, he has scored 51 runs at a mean of 10.20, with a excessive of 27.
Pujara has appeared in 71 T20 matches and amassed 1556 runs, together with a century and 9 fifty-sevens. He has hit 27 sixes and 182 boundaries.
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