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Pujara's feats on his home turf were indisputable, but he did not have the weight of 'away' runs behind him to be termed a 'versatile' cricketer. He seemed to be batting on a different wicket as his partners failed around him, as he helped India return the favour and seal a 4-0 whitewash against Australia at home. He continued to milk any bowling attack at home, continuing his penchant for 'Daddy hundreds' with a 204 against Australia in Hyderabad, and made a remarkable 4th innings 82* while opening in the Delhi Test to close out a run-chase. Pujara had finally gained momentum in Test cricket - a format he seemed destined for. He wasted no time and accumulated a fluent 206* against England in the Ahmedabad Test and followed it up with a 135 in the Mumbai Test, fighting a lone battle while the other batsmen made playing spin seem like an alien skill.

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He made a full recovery and made a comeback in the home season that followed. However, a knee injury during the 2011 IPL ruled him out of contention for the Australia and England tours later that year. He showed improvement while playing in the second of his two Tests, standing up tall to play Morkel and opening up his stance. He didn't make any significant contributions, but made it clear that he had the grit to stay out there with the senior batsmen. Pujara was subsequently picked for the South Africa tour of 2010/11 and played in the 2nd and 3rd Tests. After an unplayable grubber pinned him LBW in the first innings, he walked out to bat in the number 3 position in the second-innings, instead of his 'predecessor' Rahul Dravid, and made a fluent 72 on a tricky 4th innings run-chase on a dry and turning wicket in Bangalore, becoming the fifth Indian to score a 4th innings half-century on debut.

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Cheteshwar Pujara got his inevitable national call-up in the home series against Australia in 2010. However, because of his straight-batted technique (coming down from first slip rather than gully), and his relatively young hands, he has managed to make it work by playing late and very close to his body. A phlegmatic and determined batsman, his technique is surprisingly bottom-handed, dependent on running his wrists through the ball, rather than punching it with his fore-arms. His comparison to Rahul Dravid, however, is more to do with his dogged mindset than his technique. His focus on the longer format is a much-needed change in the current set-up of world cricket, where instant glory and quick money in franchise-based leagues is slowly taking over from an era when Ranji trophy performance was paramount. Armed with an atavistic batting methodology and mindset, Pujara brings the best of both worlds to the table. In the minds of the India public, we had already found the natural successor to Rahul Dravid. After several years of being scoffed at for making runs on a flat Rajkot wicket, Cheteshwar Pujara started to seep into the minds of the selectors. It was only a few years down the line that we came across small newspaper segments about the same boy with a squarer jawline and denser facial hair going by the name of Cheteshwar Pujara, scoring double-hundreds for breakfast and triple-hundreds for dinner at the Ranji level. The whispers got more prominent as he began to torment bowling attacks on his placid home-ground in Rajkot, and almost forced officials to change the playing conditions, such was his run-making prowess at the Ranji level. Then there were sightings: the same boy scored a double-hundred against England at the Under-19 level.

There was a whisper in the cricketing fraternity in the early 2000s вЂ“ a boy from Saurashtra had just scored a triple-hundred at the Under-14 level.