Team India middle-order batsman in Tests, Cheteshwar Pujara, is all set to begin his new journey for the Yorkshire in the English County Championship.
Yorkshire will begin their campaign tomorrow at the Emerald in Headingley. He confirmed his signing with Yorkshire on 30th January. He arrived on 7th April and will play tomorrow’s encounter against Leeds Bradford MCCU.
It all begins tomorrow! All set for the first game of the season at the Emerald Headingley. @YorkshireCCC #CountyStory pic.twitter.com/3fdN9RRjZr
— cheteshwar pujara (@cheteshwar1) April 12, 2018
The middle-order batsman will return to India after the Royal London 50-overs game against Lancashire to take part in the one-off Test against Afghanistan from June 14.
He will return on 20th June to play the County Championship game against Hampshire. There is also a possibility of Pujara staying back in England following India’s five-match Test series to play against Hampshire and Worcestershire in September.
Pujare previously replaced Younis Khan as an overseas player for Yorkshire in April 2015. Pujara played four matches that season and scored 264 runs at an average of 52.80.
He had also played for Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire. In the 2017 County season, Pujara represented Nottinghamshire scoring 333 runs at 27.75.
In the year 1992, the Little Master Sachin Tendulkar joined in as the replacement of Craig McDermott as Yorkshire overseas player.
“I’m really excited to be able to have the opportunity to represent Yorkshire once again. It’s always nice to be able to come over here and play some County Cricket, and I’m just as excited as I was last time to represent the Club. I love the passion the people of Yorkshire have for the game, and they made me feel very welcome.I know quite a few of the players, so I’ll just try to play my natural game and score plenty of runs for the Club.
“It’s an honour for me to play for the same county as Yuvraj Singh and Sachin Tendulkar and each time I’ve played county cricket it has improved me as a player. That’s the plan again in 2018. I just want to score as many runs as possible for Yorkshire and soak up as much as I can from the whole experience,” Pujara said.
Yorkshire’s Director of Cricket, Martyn Moxon said the club was delighted to have Pujara in their team. Meanwhile, Kane Williamson is the other overseas player for Yorkshire in the 2018 season.
“It goes without saying that Cheteshwar is a highly-driven individual and very skilled batsman. We’re delighted to have him on board. He proved to be a very likeable character the last time he was with us, and the plan is for him to relieve some of the pressure on the top order that we struggled with at times in 2017. Just as he did in 2015, Pujara will relish the challenge of performing in English conditions. He’s very difficult to dislodge and will hopefully dominate the crease for us during his stay,” he noted.
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