Updated On: 23 June, 2022 02:44 PM IST | Mumbai | mid-day online correspondent
Pujara scored 2 fifties in 3 games for Saurashtra before tearing it up with Sussex in England`s premier red-ball competition. Pujara scored an eye-watering 720 runs in 5 games at an average of 120

Cheteshwar Pujara. File Pic
Cheteshwar Pujara fully deserved to make a comeback into the India Test team after piling on the runs in red-ball cricket since he was axed for the Sri Lanka series earlier in the year.
After being dropped, many would have assumed that this was the last straw for Pujara at the Test level after a long run of underwhelming form. But the drop seemed to have awakened a hunger to get back to his best, which is exactly what he did on his Ranji return and subsequent County Championship return.