Cheteshwar Pujara: Pujara created history by breaking Brian Lara's record, created panic in the cricket world.

Cheteshwar Pujara vs Brian Lara: Cheteshwar Pujara, who is out of the Indian Test team, has created history in first class cricket. Pujara scored the 66th century in his first class career and was also successful in converting his century into a double century. This is Pujara's 18th double century in his first class career. Pujara has now become the fourth batsman in the world to score the most double centuries in first class cricket. The great Bradman has scored the most double centuries in his first class career. Don Bradman holds the record of scoring 37 double centuries.

Brian overtakes Lara

At the same time, Pujara has 66 centuries in his first class career. By doing this, Pujara has broken the record of the great Brian Lara. Lara had scored 65 centuries in his first class career. Along with this, Pujara has also completed 21000 runs in his first class career. (Cheteshwar Pujara Breaks Brain Lara Record).

Pujara completed his century while playing for Saurashtra during the match between Chhattisgarh and Saurashtra in Ranji Trophy 2024. During his century, Pujara created history and overtook Lara in terms of scoring a century in first class cricket. Let us tell you that the record of scoring most centuries in first class cricket for India is in the name of Sachin Tendulkar and Sunil Gavaskar.

Both of them have succeeded in scoring 81 centuries in first class cricket. Apart from this, Sir Jack Hobbs holds the record for scoring most centuries in first class cricket. Jack Hobbs had scored 199 centuries in first class cricket.

Will Pujara be missed (in the series against Australia)?

The five-Test series will start in Perth from November 22. Pujara, who was out of the Indian team, was the highest run scorer in the 2018-19 series by scoring 521 runs in 1258 balls and after three years once again became the backbone of Indian batting when he scored 271 runs in 928 balls. Pujara, who played 103 Tests for India, faced an attack consisting of fast bowlers like Pat Cummins, Josh Hazlewood and Mitchell Starc and played an important role in tiring them out.