Cheteshwar Pujara Joins Sachin Tendulkar, Sunil Gavaskar, Rahul Dravid In Elite Club

Senior India cricketer Cheteshwar Pujara completed 20,000 runs in first-class cricket. He achieved the feat while batting for Saurashtra in their third round Ranji Trophy 2024 fixture against Vidarbha at the VCA Stadium in Nagpur. (Image Credit: Getty)

Pujara continued his great form in the domestic setup after being overlooked for a place in the Test side both during India's tour of South Africa and the first three Tests against England at home. He needed 96 runs before the Vidarbha match to get to the mountain of 20,000 runs and got there with 43 in the first innings and a 66 in the second. (Image Credit: Getty)

Apart from his prolific run in Ranji Trophy, Pujara has been a match-winner for India in Test matches as well. The right-handed batter has 7195 runs in 103 Test matches for the country at an average of 44.36. Overall, he has an enviable tally of 61 hundreds and 77 fifties in first-class cricket. (Image Credit: Getty)

Pujara now joined Sunil Gavaskar, Sachin Tendulkar and Rahul Dravid as the only other Indians to have scored more than 20,000 first-class runs. Gavaskar sits atop this list with 25,834 runs at an average of 51.86

Second on the list in which Pujara is currently fourth is Tendulkar who amassed 25,396 runs at an even better average of 57.84.(Image Credit: Getty)

While Dravid scored 23,794 runs at an average of 55.33, Pujara has 20,013 runs at an average of nearly 52. (Image Credit: Getty)