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Cheteshwar Pujara

India · Left-arm orthodox · All-rounder

Cheteshwar Pujara — 127 career matches, 7,601 runs and 0 wickets across all formats.

Matches
0
Runs
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Cheteshwar Pujara
Bat Avg
41.3

2026 Season Context

Current team & role

Royal Challengers Bangalore · All-Rounder

Career stats overview

100 Test · 5 ODI · 22 T20I appearances — spanning 2009 to present.

Test

100 matches

7,160
Runs scored
0
Wickets taken

Where his legacy was forged — the format that rewards patience and precision.

ODI

5 matches

51
Runs scored
0
Wickets taken

The middle-overs architect — a decade of white-ball consistency.

T20I

22 matches

390
Runs scored
0
Wickets taken

Brief but impactful — quality over volume in the shortest format.

Format-aware deep dive

Where he dominates

Home record

215
wickets

Average 21.4 on Indian soil — better than any active spinner of the era.

Fourth-innings force

112
wickets

A third of his Test wickets come on day five, when bowlers decide outcomes.

Lower-order resilience

38.4
batting avg

At No.7 his average beats every Indian specialist in that slot since 2015.

Elite opposition

198
wkts in 48 M

Combined record vs Australia, England, New Zealand and South Africa.

Consistency

14
five-wicket hauls

Third-most by any Indian bowler since his Test debut.

WTC presence

2
finals played

In the conversation every cycle. Central to this India red-ball side.

Career threads

Beyond the numbers

Elite across all three formats

788 wickets across all formats. Equally lethal on spinning Indian decks and unforgiving overseas tracks.

Test cricket is where the numbers peak

A batting average in all-rounder territory, a bowling average in the mid-twenties, a No.1 ranking held across multiple cycles.

A franchise career of its own

250 IPL appearances, 173 wickets — four titles with Chennai, and the 2026 move brings it full circle.

Sir Jadeja

The meme that became a compliment. A cultural marker only a handful of modern players carry.

Head-to-head

Vs opponents

Career totals broken down by the teams CA Pujara has faced most often, heat-scaled by output.

England

Matches
27
Runs
1,778

Australia

Matches
25
Runs
2,074

South Africa

Matches
16
Runs
882

New Zealand

Matches
12
Runs
867

Bangladesh

Matches
8
Runs
506

West Indies

Matches
8
Runs
348

Sri Lanka

Matches
7
Runs
743

Chennai Super Kings

Matches
3
Runs
15

Grounds played at

Home & away grounds

The venues where CA Pujara has turned out most often.

Eden Gardens, Kolkata

Matches
10
Runs
351

Holkar Cricket Stadium, Indore

Matches
9
Runs
572

M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru

Matches
7
Runs
294

Arun Jaitley Stadium, Delhi

Matches
6
Runs
303

M. A. Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai

Matches
6
Runs
186

Narendra Modi Stadium, Ahmedabad

Matches
5
Runs
335

Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium, Hyderabad

Matches
5
Runs
535

Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai

Matches
5
Runs
367

Official profile

Elsewhere on the web

ESPNcricinfo

CA Pujara's profile

Historical aggregates derived from Cricsheet (cricsheet.org) under ODC-BY licence. 2001/02–2026 IPL seasons. Batting average uses dismissals as the denominator; bowler wickets are credited only for bowler-kind dismissals (bowled, caught, lbw, caught-and-bowled, stumped, hit wicket). Venue and opposition splits are rebuilt after every ingest from the Cricsheet archive.

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