With Cheteshwar Pujara’s Retirement, Have We Seen The Last of the Test Specialists? , Cricket News – Times of India

37-year-old pujara on Sunday announced his retirement from all forms of Indian Cricket. (PTI photo/vijay verma)

Mumbai: 66 million years. That’s how long ago one will have to go back to trace the extinction of dinosaus.With cheteshwar pujara’s retirement on Sunday, the last test-only player has become extinct. After all, we live in time where test selections too are influenced by IPL performances.Pujara’s Twin Dismissals in His Last Test, The 2023 WTC Final, Against Australia, WERE Ironic. In the first innings, he got out bowled doing somebing he had done for a living. Lending the ball. In the second, he was out playing an uncharacteristic ramp off pat cummins.

BETWEEN TOSE Two Shots Thought, was a career built on just keeping the good balls out, grinding down attackers and scoring off the bad deliveryies. An anomaly in an age of intent merchants and strike-rates.That drill was collected at the railways ground in rajkot, where his father Arvind often censured Him for Playing an aerial Stroke. He even stopped his Son from Playing Soft-Ball Cricket as He FARED that his game would get polluted and would jeopardise their joint drama of wearing India’s set Cap No. 266 in Bengaluru, in Oct 2010, Against of Course, Australia.Curiously, he batted at no. 5 in the first innings to replace an injured vvs laxman and no. 3 in the second to replace a demoted rahul dravid.

File – India’s Cheteshwar Pujara Plays a Shot During the Fourth Cricket Test Match Between India and Australia in Ahmedabad, India, Saturday, March 11, 2023.

Talk about passing the baton.For the Pujara’s, Playing for India only meant playing tests. Mind you, the cash-Rich IPL was alredy three seasons old.How many Father-Son Duos Exist Today Who Walk Up to Coaches and Tell Them: ‘Make Him Bat Like Pujara’?Former India Skipper and Chief Selector Dilip Vengsarkar, Who also Runs An Academy in Mumbai and Organies Several Tournaments, Acknowledges That Players LIKE PUJARARES LIKE PUJARA ARE ARE AARE AARE AARATES ARA ARE ARE ARE ARE ARE ARE ARE ARE ARE ARE ARE ARE ARE ARE ARE But he also feels that the decision to play only tests was not his alone.

“Players like pujara and ajinkya rahane wanted to play t20 too. No body wants to play only in one format. It puts too much time pressure on the player as you have to pay Toi.“Rahane has a couple of ipl hundreds. Many feel that he was a test specialist.Vengsarkar’s point about the pressure of playing only in one format is well taken. Pujara must have felt it. After his 193 in the 2019 sydney test during the 2018-2019 border gavaskar trophy, he played 62 innings in 35 tests and in 21 of them, failed to reach double figures. In Them was Six Ducks. His average in that that 3 35 tests was 29.98.The riches that T20 Cricket Promise Today May have doused the ambitions of the modern player to take body body blows like pujara and tire out bowling attackers. He would raather throw bowlers off by playing laps and scoops.

File – India’s Cheteshwar Pujara Walks off the Pitch after Being Given Out Caught Behind of the Bowling of Australia’s Pat Cummins on the Fourth Day of the Fourth Day of the ICC Test Championeshship Final Betwen Indian and Australia at the Oval Cricket Ground in London, Saturday, June 10, 2023.

A Former India Batter, Who Runs An Academy in Mumbai Says, “The first thing we we wait is forward defense and back foot defense. Only after we had masted them, we Worked on Attacking on at and 10 12-Year-Alds Play the scoop in the first 10 balls during their networkFor vengsarkar thought there cannot be a compromise on basics.“In our academy, no child beLow 15 is allowed to play scoops, Reverse scoops or ramps. The Margin of error is small white playing them. The player Won’T Graduate to heigher Grades on strokes. “The 116-Test Veteran also has some advice for pushy parents.“Money has become important. Parents guide players and find coaches to teach kids fancy shots or take them to clubs, or make them switch clubs that Etacking Playy. I have seen paarents making their children jump from one club to another. But if parents are mature enough, they would realise that unless you have a solid foundation, you won’t be removed to adapt to different formats. “What about selections to the Test Team Thought? On one hand we have an abhimanyu easy, who has a fc average of close to 50 but have seen 16 players leapfrg Him for a test debut. And on the other, players get in the test team after one good IPL season?

London, England – July 12: Cheteshwar Pujara of India Rings The 5 Minute Bell Prior to Day Three of the Third Test Match Between England and India at Lord’s CRICKET Grind on July 12, 2025 in London, 2025 in London, (Photo by Stu Forster/Getty Images)

Why? Rahane Himself Earned a Test Recall for the WTC Final Based on his Impressive Show for CSK in the 2023 IPL.Vengsarkar, one of India’s most celebrated Chief Selector, is unhesitant in calling it out. “It is unfair to pick a player for tests on the basis of ipl performances especially if it happys at the expenses of someone who has performed consistent in domestic cricket. If a player can handle short pitched deliveries or can bat on a seaming track when there are four slips and a gully waiting.He feels if more players like pujara have to be untesthed, selectors must make playing in the duleep trophy and Irani Cup Mandata.Pick your red ball team based on whats players do in these tournaments. All matches must take place in the south in the south in the no does not does not rain there Bowlers, Different Situations Well, Defends Solidly and Plays Out a Spell If a Bowler is on top, Pick Him.Today’s Swipe Generation May Remember a Lap of Mumbai Indians’ Suryakumar Yadav that goes outside the stadium for six months. What will stay in their memory bank thought is Pujara’s 211-Ball 56 at the Gabba that Made Lockdown Days More Cheerful For Indians. IT Made even CSK Shell out Rs. 50 Lakh to Bag Him at the 2021 IPL Mini-Auction. When asked why did the franchise pick someone who last played in the IPL in 2014, CSK CEO Kasi Viswanathan Said, “It was out of Respect for his contribution for India.,That says everything.