Last 2 tours ishi ke wajah se jeete they and I wanted him in the recent BGT tour as well ( only Australia, no where else).
Same old story, No farewell match. There are some serious structural problems in the Indian cricket, no players want to take voluntary retirement and every time management kicks em out with same old drama. In recent time, 4 big players retired from Indian test team and no farewell match for them. Would have been great if there was some communication between players and management.
Cheteshwar Pujara had his moments in test cricket. But he never achieved the sort of fame and success that some of the other players had, since he was not a very suitable candidate for the IPL. Played a total of 30 matches in the IPL, with a strike rate of less than 100. But he more than made up for that by playing 103 test matches. Today's youngsters will never understand the value of playing more than a hundred test matches. And in the future we will see very few players getting to that mark.
Cheteshwar Pujara was not seen in the Indian national team for the whole year but whenever a Test format was organized, Cheteshwar Pujara's name came up as an auto choice. This player had prepared himself in such a way that the selectors could not consider him anywhere else outside Test cricket. Usually, we have seen before that no matter how good a player plays in the Test format, he is given opportunities in other formats, at least in the IPL there are good offers for him but this Indian star did not get that opportunity. Various IPL teams thought that if Cheteshwar Pujara plays in their team, he will bat in the Test style, which will make their team unable to compete with other teams, which is probably why he was not included in the IPL. However, like me, many people wanted to see him succeed in white ball cricket as well as in red ball cricket.