Overview

• Pujara said he had considered playing this Ranji Trophy season before deciding younger domestic batters should get those opportunities.
• A defining Test specialist, he was Player of the Series in India’s 2018-19 win in Australia with 521 runs and produced marathon innings such as 202 off 525 balls in Ranchi.
• He closes with 7,195 Test runs, 19 centuries and an average of 43.60, alongside a prolific first-class tally of roughly 21,301 runs with 66 hundreds.
• Tributes poured in from figures including Anil Kumble, Sachin Tendulkar, head coach Gautam Gambhir and captain Shubman Gill, while Dinesh Karthik questioned the absence of a formal farewell match.
• Australia’s Alyssa Healy reflected that Pujara’s durability often drained their attack to the point they focused on dismissing the batter at the other end.