Sussex Cricket on Thursday confirmed Indian batsman Cheteshwar Pujara for the Country Championship and Royal London One Day Cup tournament. Pujara has encompassed as an alternate for Australian batsman Travis Head.
Indian batsman Cheteshwar Pujara after being signed by Sussex Cricket said as posted on their official Twitter account,” I am eager and special to be aspect of the historic Sussex County Cricket Club for the appearing season. I will be enlisting the Sussex family very soon.”
Cheteshwar Pujara, who has played county cricket before, will be seen playing for Sussex this year. This season of county cricket is to start from 7th April. The Sussex have encompassed Pujara as an overseas player in spot of Australian batsman Travis Head.
For a long time, Pujara’s bat has been speechless for the Indian Test squad, so his participation in county cricket comes to be relatively crucial.
Pujara could not do anything important in the previously played Ranji Trophy. Pujara scored 2 half-centuries in 5 innings of 3 games for Saurashtra.
He returned to the pavilion without opening an account in the first innings against Mumbai and could only score 8 runs against Odisha. In the Indian squad, Cheteshwar Pujara reinstated by Hanuma Vihari in the Mohali Test.
Even before this, Cheteshwar Pujara has partaken in county cricket. He played county cricket for Derbyshire in 2014, Yorkshire in 2015 and 2018, Nottinghamshire in 2017 last.
Sussex will be the fourth county team for Pujara. 34-year-old Cheteshwar Pujara has played 95 Tests for the Indian team, in which he has scored 6713 runs at an average of 43.87. He has 18 centuries in Test cricket to his name.
