The veteran Indian batter Cheteshwar Pujara has shared a reminiscence of his first assembly with Indian head coach Rahul Dravid. He heaped the praises on the previous Indian captain and mentioned that he has discovered many issues from Dravid even after he acquired retired in 2012. Pujara efficiently donned the No. 3 place in Take a look at cricket and had been termed as “subsequent wall” throughout his prime.
Dravid, considered the most effective Take a look at gamers of all time, was hailed for his strategies and expertise which flourished extra in tough conditions. He scored 13288 runs in 164 Take a look at matches at a median of 52.3 and 10889 runs in 344 ODI matches throughout his 16 years of dominance in Indian cricket.
After retirement, he stayed linked with cricket with completely different teaching roles and was lastly named head coach of the Indian staff on the finish of the final 12 months. In the meantime, Pujara has additionally turned a vital a part of the Indian cricket Take a look at staff and is closing on 7000 worldwide runs. He mentioned that Dravid has been his inspiration since he met him as a younger child in 2007 in Rajkot.
“Rahul Bhai has all the time been an inspiration for me. After I first met him in 2007, he was main the India staff. He got here to Rajkot. That was my first interplay with him as a younger child. After that, I’ve all the time been in contact, I’ve discovered so many issues from him as a cricketer once I was taking part in with him and even after he retired and coached India A staff, he has all the time been useful,” Pujara advised BCCI.television.
“He all the time retains issues easy, he has nice concepts about batting, he doesn’t complicate issues. It’s all the time good to be taught from him, it’s all the time good to work with Rahul Bhai,” he added.
The 34-year-old batter final scored a century in January 2019 and was finally dropped after the 2-1 sequence loss towards South Africa earlier this 12 months. Nevertheless, Pujara labored laborious and scored constantly massive runs in each Ranji Trophy 2022 and County cricket to power his means again into the nationwide staff for the rescheduled final Take a look at match towards England.
