{"id":92107,"date":"2025-08-24T10:28:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T10:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/92107\/"},"modified":"2025-08-24T10:28:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T10:28:12","slug":"test-stalwart-pujara-retires-from-international-cricket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/92107\/","title":{"rendered":"Test stalwart Pujara retires from international cricket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the years, Pujara became an able replacement to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.icc-cricket.com\/videos\/icc-crictos-by-fancraze-rahul-dravid-shows-his-class\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rahul Dravid<\/a> at no.3, adept at seeing off the new ball through his disciplined batting. He scored hundreds in India, Australia, Bangladesh, England, South Africa and Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n<p>Pujara also had a brilliant List A career, averaging close to 57, but had limited opportunities in a power-packed India white-ball lineup of the 2010s.<\/p>\n<p>Some of Pujara&#8217;s best performances came in adverse circumstances, such as a feisty 145* that helped secure a series win in Colombo, or his fighting second innings efforts in Sydney (77) and Brisbane (56) during India&#8217;s historic series win Down Under in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Australia remained a favourite opposition of Pujara, even as he scored 2074 runs from his Test tally against the side at an average close to 50.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Over the years, Pujara became an able replacement to Rahul Dravid at no.3, adept at seeing off the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":92108,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[5101,64,63,68385,740,5103,44,85],"class_list":["post-92107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-app-stream","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cheteshwar-pujara-01-25-1988","tag-cricket","tag-highlighted-news","tag-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}