Out-of-favour India batter Cheteshwar Pujara continues to make waves in home cricket as he scored his seventeenth double hundred on Sunday to place Saurashtra within the driver’s seat of their Ranji Trophy 2024 opener in opposition to Jharkhand.
Pujara’s knock noticed him take joint-fourth place on the listing of batters with essentially the most first-class double centuries.
Australian legend Don Bradman leads the listing with 37 FC double tons adopted by Wally Hammond (36), Patsy Hendren (22), Herbert Sutcliffe (17), Mark Ramprakash (17) and Pujara (17).
His knock helped Saurashtra cross the 500-run mark on Day 3 and take the group’s first innings lead previous 400 by the second session. Jharkhand had been bowled out for 142 due to Chirag Jani’s five-wicket haul.
This was additionally Pujara’s eighth double hundred in Ranji Trophy, which places him simply behind Paras Dogra’s file of 9 within the match.
Pujara additionally has three first-class triple-centuries, the final of which got here in opposition to West Indies A in October 2013.
The 35-year-old has been out of rivalry from the nationwide Check squad since he featured within the ICC WTC Closing in opposition to Australia at The Oval in June final 12 months.
A robust present within the Ranji Trophy will assist Pujara break open the choice doorways and regain his place within the Indian group for the upcoming five-Check sequence in opposition to England later this month.
He fell out of favour with the selectors after a string of low scores in Check cricket over the previous couple of years. However a comeback can’t be dominated out for the person who helped India clinch the final two Border-Gavaskar trophies in Australia below Virat Kohli and Ajinkya Rahane’s captaincy.
Pujara has to this point performed 103 Checks through which he is amassed 7195 runs at a median of 43.60 with 19 a whole bunch and 35 fifties for Workforce India.