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Cheteshwar Pujara of Saurashtra scored a century against Chhattisgarh in the second round of Ranji Trophy. Pujara faced 197 balls for this century. Chhattisgarh won the toss and made a huge score of 578 runs in the first innings. In reply, Saurashtra team lost 2 wickets for 81 runs. Then Pujara, who came to bat at number 3, played an important century for his team.
This is his 25th century in Ranji Trophy. This is the 66th century of his first-class career. With this century, Pujara has created history and left Brian Lara behind. Lara scored 65 centuries in first class.
21 thousand runs completed
Along with scoring a century against Chhattisgarh, Cheteshwar Pujara also completed 21 thousand runs in the first class. Pujara is now among the top-4 Indian players who have scored the most runs in the first class. Sunil Gavaskar has scored the most runs in first class. He has a total of 25834 runs in his name. Sachin Tendulkar is at second place with 25396 runs and Rahul Dravid is at third place with 23784 runs.
Pujara is at fourth place in this list after scoring more than 21 thousand runs at an average of 50. Not only this, Pujara has come third in the list of Indian players who have scored most first-class centuries. Gavaskar and Sachin jointly top the list with 81 centuries each. Dravid is at second place with 68 centuries and Pujara is at third place with 66 centuries.
Cheteshwar Pujara scored a lot of runs
Cheteshwar Pujara has been out of Team India for about one and a half years. He played his last match for the Indian team in the final of the World Test Championship. He has not been included in the team since the match played at the Oval. Since then he has scored many first-class runs. This year he has played 16 first-class matches, in which he has scored 6 centuries. Pujara had scored a lot of runs in the last season of Ranji Trophy also. He scored 829 runs in 8 matches at an average of 69.