India has produced Cheteshwar Pujara, one of the most trusted test cricketers, who is a man of some words, but an impeccable character. For years in his international cricket career, Pujara earned several draws for India and played an important role in many wins. But the batsman is no longer a part of India’s team in any of the three formats. Pujara, who is last played for India in 2023, has often produced fine knocks, considering their return. But his luck has still not changed.
Pujara’s wife, Pooja, in her book ‘The Diary of a Cricketer’s wife’, has made some shocking revelations about the batsman’s cricket career. In the book, he also explained how Pujara once heard the conversation about being removed from the team during the 2018-19 tour of Australia.
This episode took place, while Pujara was not enjoying the best, scored just 28 runs in Perth Test. As India lost the match, Pujara also tried to manage a mild hamstring injury, apparently to leave it. The incident occurred when Pujara’s father was admitted back home to a hospital.
“Cheteshwar made a major part of his three-day brake and did not get out of his room. He turned to alternately, while resting his afflicted limb and treating his stressful hamstrings, neither told anyone about Papa’s medical status for the said exchange,” Pooja wrote in her book.
“I only came to know about the incident on Cheteshwar’s birthday only after the tour. It was about half-two or two in the afternoon, the lights had stopped and the room was very dark. Aditi was napping and Cheteshwar and Cheteshwar and I was scrolling through my social media pages, such as a message, a message that was a message, a sweet message.
A simple person with a humble character, Pujara eventually decided to bare all this in front of his wife, but not before being agreed to do so.
‘What’s wrong,’ I asked. ‘Nothing,’ he said, best on his cleric. But I was not buying it. I knew quite well that when Cheteshwar became completely calm, it was usually meant that he was hiding something. This was a constant incident. I usually learned on-field gossip and politics from the wives of other players, never from them. During my wedding, description of his various visits to Cheteshwar was limited to three unaware sentences: ‘We had practice, a team meeting and then I returned to the room.’ Day and day out, year -head -saal, I was treated with equal standard lines. He was ready to talk about everything but his professional life. There were times when I would be surprised whether he also knew what was happening in the world around him.
“But in this example, I was not about let her climb on me. He tried to overcome me, but I finally wore her down. ‘I paid attention to her.” This kind of things happen, “he said that everything is not a reaction.
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