India's Test regular Cheteshwar Pujara turned 32 on Saturday, and cricketers took to Twitter to wish the batsman on his birthday.
Pujara, who on Saturday joined a select group of cricketing greats by smashing his 50th first-class century, is already the Indian player with most first class double centuries when he scored his 12th double ton in 2017 to go past Vijay Merchant.
Pujara said his 50th first-class century will boost his confidence ahead of India's upcoming Test tour of New Zealand, where he will need to "trust" his game.
However, Pujara stands fourth among active cricketers with most first-class centuries - Alastair Cook (65) stands atop followed by Hashim Amla (52) who will feature for Surrey in the upcoming season and Wasim Jaffer.
With 928 points, Kohli is way ahead of second-placed Australian maestro Steve Smith (911) and New Zealand's inspirational skipper Kane Williamson (822).
Uttar Pradesh thrashed Saurashtra by an innings and 72 runs, even as Test specialist Cheteshwar Pujara failed miserably with the bat in the second innings of the Elite Group B match
Pujara was brought into the final over of day 3 of the Elite Group B match at the Saurashtra Cricket Association Stadium in Rajkot. And into his second delivery, Pujara picked up a wicket of Mohit Jangra
Pujara, who boasts of a double century with the pink ball at the domestic level, became the first Indian to score a fifty in a Day/Night Test but failed to convert his 55 into a bigger score on Friday.
The Indian pace battery ran through Bangladesh batting like a hot knife through butter, before Pujara Virat Kohli eased to typically classy fifties as India reached 174/3 at stumps on Day 1 of the first pink ball Test on Friday.
The pink ball will be used for the first time in India during the India-Bangladesh day/night match at Eden Gardens from November 22.
The 2016 edition of the Duleep Trophy was played with the Kookaburra pink ball and Pujara topped the run charts (453) with two hundreds, including a 256 not out for India Blue.
Pujara had complained about sighting the ball under lights in the 2016-17 domestic season but he claims to be better prepared now.
A total of 10 Indian players from the current squad have already played with the pink ball in a day-night first-class game.
Rabada did say a few words to Pujara after dismissing him for 58, perhaps letting a bit of his frustration out as he was unlucky not to get him out on zero due to a dropped catch.
Pujara has seen a lot of Agarwal in the domestic arena and believes it is the consistent scores in domestic cricket that has made him what he is today.
It took him 20 balls to get off the mark, hit his first boundary in his 42nd ball that he faced and at one point en route to his 21st Test half-century, he stood at 8 off 62.
South Africa ended up losing the first Test against India at the ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium in Visakhapatnam by a heavy margin of 203 runs.
Pujara also felt that it won't be easy for batting on a fifth-day track.
Cheteshwar Pujara scored a 148-ball 81 on Saturday against South Africa in Visakhapatnam.
With Team India in need of relatively quick runs, the emotions ran high as Rohit Sharma vented his frustration on Cheteshwar Pujara after a lost single.
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