Cheteshwar Pujara: Five years after being nominated for the honour, Indian batter Cheteshwar Pujara has received the prestigious Arjuna award.
Due to his commitments with his cricket team, Pujara was unable to attend the awards event in 2017. However, the ace batsman, who has played many match-winning knocks for India and is known as a test batsman giant finally got his hands on the award after waiting for over five years. Many had earlier speculated if everything is fine because he had not received the award for long.
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Anurag Thakur presented him the award
Pujara, who represents Saurashtra in domestic cricket, is in the capital for the Vijay Hazare Trophy. He will travel with the India A team to Bangladesh ahead of the two-match Test series in the neighbouring nation next month. Following outstanding performance in county cricket, Pujara had returned to the Indian team.
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.”
Cheteshwar Pujara ‘s professional career
Pujara has scored 6792 runs in 96 Test matches, with the highest score of 206 and an average of 43.81. These runs include 18 centuries and 33 fifties.
In his five ODI matches thus far, he has scored 51 runs at an average of 10.20, with a high of 27.
Pujara has appeared in 71 T20 matches and amassed 1556 runs, including a century and nine fifty-sevens. He has hit 27 sixes and 182 boundaries.
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