5 life lessons from Cheteshwar Pujara

#2 Patience in the odd times

It was the year 2015 new years Test, Sydney Cricket Ground. Virat Kohli just took over the captaincy from Mahendra Singh Dhoni. Cheteshwar Pujara was dropped from the playing eleven owing to his slow scoring rate. Even in the first Test against England at Edgbaston in 2018, he was not a part of the playing owing for the same reason.

Since then life has seen a full turn around for Pujara and it is the same SCG four years later, where he might have been the first name on the team sheet. All the pondering over the low strike rates have stopped now and the team management has realized the true importance of this man. Fortunately, the three centuries this tour has helped Pujara to emerge from shadows of Kohli, just like it did for Dravid in 2002 when he scored three tons in England.