Cheteshwar Pujara

The previous record was 1,604 runs set by Chandu Borde in 1964–65.

Cheteshwar Arvind Pujara (born 25 January 1988) is an Indian cricketer and is the captain of Sussex County Cricket Club in County Championship.

He plays for Saurashtra in Indian domestic cricket.

Pujara is known for his disciplined and patient batting style which made him an integral part of the Indian Test team for over a decade.

His excellent batting was one of the main reasons of India winning their first-ever test series win in Australia.

Cheteshwar Pujara was born in Rajkot, Gujarat on 25 January 1988 in a Hindu family.

His father Arvind and his uncle Bipin were Ranji Trophy players for Saurashtra.

His father and his mother, Reema Pujara, recognized his talents early and Cheteshwar practised with his father.

He first started playing with the leather ball at the age of 13.

Pujara made his first-class debut for Saurashtra in December 2005 and made his Test debut at Bangalore in October 2010.

He also played 5 ODI matches for India.

His mother died in 2005 when he was 17 due to cancer.

Cheteshwar Pujara completed his BBA from J. J. Kundalia College.

Pujara made his Under-19 Test debut for India against England in 2005.

Opening the innings, he scored 211 runs to help India win by an innings and 137 runs.

He was also picked in the Indian squad for the 2006 Under-19 Cricket World Cup after scoring three fifties in four innings of the Afro-Asia Under-19 Cup.

He was the leading run-scorer of the Under-19 World Cup where he scored 349 runs from 6 innings, including three fifties and a century, at an average of 117.

He was the Man of the Tournament in the 2006 Under-19 Cricket World Cup.

He scored 97 runs against the West Indies in the quarterfinals before scoring 129 runs not out against England in the semifinals, helping India win by a huge margin of 234 runs.

However, he was dismissed for a duck in the final, against Pakistan, which India eventually lost.

His scores were: 302* for Saurashtra against Orissa in 2008/09, 352 for Saurashtra against Karnataka in 2012/13, and 306* for India A against West Indies A in 2013/14.

He also holds a record of scoring three triple centuries within a span of one month, although only the last of these was in a first-class match.

He was a part of the India A team which toured England in the 2010 summers and was the highest scorer of the tour.

In October 2011, the BCCI awarded him a D grade national contract.

Known to have a sound technique and the temperament required to play long innings, he was one of the contenders for a spot in the Indian middle order after the retirement of Rahul Dravid and VVS Laxman.

and was a part of the IPL 2021 winning team Chennai Super Kings.

His Test comeback came against New Zealand in August 2012, scoring a century.

He made his first double hundred against England at Ahmedabad in November 2012 and followed up with another double hundred against Australia in March 2013, both the times steering India to victory and becoming man of the match.

In the 2012 NKP Salve Challenger Trophy, he was the highest scorer with two centuries and one half-century.

He became one of the fastest batsmen to reach 1000 runs in Test cricket in just 11 matches and his 18th Test Innings.

He scored 10 and 203 not out from just 221 balls against Madhya Pradesh at the Saurashtra Cricket Association Stadium at Rajkot to ensure a 203-run victory which qualified Saurashtra for the 2012–13 Ranji Trophy quarter-finals.

In his next match, the quarter-final at Saurashtra University in Rajkot against Karnataka, he scored 37 and 352 (dismissed by off spinner K. Gowtham in both innings) to ensure that Saurashtra progressed to the semifinal.

Though he was called to the India ODI squad after this success, he was not selected in the first XI.

He won the Emerging Cricketer of the Year 2013.

He married Puja Pabari in Rajkot on 13 February 2013.

In 2013, at the age of only 25, Pujara became only the ninth batsman to score three career first-class triple-centuries.

In February 2017, during The One-off Test match against Bangladesh, he set a new record for the most runs by a batsman in an Indian first-class season, with 1,605 runs.

In November 2017, he scored his twelfth double-century in first-class cricket, the most by an Indian batsman, breaking the previous record set by Vijay Merchant.

He was awarded a Grade B contract by the BCCI in March 2022.

On 23 February 2018, the couple became parents of a baby girl, Aditi.