BANvIND: Cheteshwar Pujara becomes India's 8th highest run-getter in Test cricket

Cheteshwar Pujara, the vice-captain who came to bat at number three, brought the team to a stable position in the first Test match against Bangladesh. Playing this innings of BANvIND, Pujara has become the eighth batsman to score the most runs in Test cricket for India.

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The Indian team on the Bangladesh tour is playing its first Test match today. After winning the toss, the Indian team's openers lost their wickets quickly. Captain KL Rahul, who came on the opening, returned to the pavilion after scoring 22 runs and Shubman Gill 20 runs. After that, Pujara came to bat and showed his experience to turn the match in India's favor in the BANvIND Test series.

In addition, Pujara has completed 6879 runs in his Test career. And in this innings, he has scored 87 runs with the help of 11 fours. Meanwhile, legendary batsman Sachin Tendulkar is at number one in terms of scoring the most runs in Test cricket for India. He has scored 15921 runs in his Test career. Now Pujara has also joined this list at number eight. He has left former Indian batsman Dilip Vengsarkar behind in terms of Test runs. Dilip Vengsarkar scored 6868 runs in his Test career.

After Sachin Tendulkar, the current Indian head coach is second in scoring the most runs in Test cricket. He has scored a total of 13265 runs in his Test career. Apart from this Sunil Gavaskar is at number three with 10122 runs. While VVS Laxman is at number four with 8781 runs, Virender Sehwag is at number five with 8503 runs, Virat Kohli is at number six with 8075 runs, and Sourav Ganguly is at number seven with 7212 runs.

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Pujara made his Test debut for India in 2010, since then he has played 96 Test matches. In 164 innings of these matches, Pujara has scored 6792 runs (excluding today's match) at an average of 43.81. During this, 18 centuries and 33 half-centuries have come out of his bat. At the same time, his high score has been 206* runs.