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Cheteshwar Pujara beats Brian Lara: Cheteshwar Pujara, who was dropped from the Indian Test team, has created history in first-class cricket. Pujara scored his 66th century in first-class cricket and also managed to convert his century into a double century. This is the 18th double century of Pujara's first-class cricket career. Pujara has now become the fourth batsman in the world to score most double centuries in first-class cricket. Bradman has scored the most double centuries in his first-class cricket career. The record of scoring 37 double centuries is in the name of Don Bradman.
Brian Lara broke records and created history
Cheteshwar Pujara has 66 centuries in his first-class cricket career. Pujara has broken Brian Lara's record by scoring his 66th century. Lara scored 65 centuries in his first-class cricket career. With this, Pujara has also completed 21000 runs in his first-class cricket career.
Fourth highest run scorer for India in first-class cricket
Pujara completed his century while playing for Saurashtra during the Ranji Trophy 2024 match between Chhattisgarh and Saurashtra. He became the fourth highest run-scorer for the Indian batsman in first-class cricket. Sunil Gavaskar, Sachin Tendulkar and Rahul Dravid have scored more runs than him for India in first-class cricket. Both of them have been successful in scoring 81 centuries in first class cricket.
Gavaskar holds the record of scoring 25,834 first-class runs for India. Apart from this, the record of most centuries in first-class cricket is in the name of Sir Jack Hobbs. Jack Hobbs scored 199 centuries in first-class cricket.
Debuted for Team India in 2010
Once Cheteshwar Pujara comes to the crease, it becomes difficult to get him out. His technique is very good. This cricketer made his Test debut for the Indian team in 2010. After this, he scored 7195 runs including 19 centuries and 35 half-centuries in 103 Test matches. But due to poor form, Pujara was dropped from the Indian team one and a half years ago.