India, Aug. 26 -- When you think of Cheteshwar Pujara, you think grit, determination, concentration, fight and so on. In the era of strike rates and boundary count, Pujara made batting for time fashionable. He believed in grinding out the opposition. He batted for so long during India's tour of Australia in 2018-19 that their then-head coach Justin Langer got tired of his sight at the crease. That was Pujara in a nutshell. The classical, patient and non-hurried Test batter, who never gave up.

He got dropped from the team more times than any other cricketer with over a 100 Tests in his career you could remember. Yet, you always knew that he would somehow find his way back and so he did, again and again, until the World Test Championship f...