India's first series in the 2023?25 World Test Championship cycle will be against the West Indies, however, it is unlikely that the selection committee would make any significant changes. For this Test series, only a handful of players are anticipated to be rested or dropped. Cheteshwar Pujara, a skilled player, is one of those who may be dropped. According to rumors, Yashasvi Jaiswal is in a strong position to take over the duties of the 35-year-old batting veteran.



Apart from Virat Kohli, India's top batter Cheteshwar Pujara is the only Indian cricketer in the team who has represented India in more than 100 Test matches. However, Pujara's place in the Test team once more appears in doubt following his two failures against Australia in the World Test Championship (WTC) Final at the Oval in London last week.



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Contrary to earlier speculations, Rohit Sharma is expected to remain the Test captain. "Every Test is important, and its result contributes to the World Test Championship (WTC) points table. We cannot experiment in a Test match," says a source cited by the website Cricbuzz.



In the last 40 innings, Pujara has only 1 century and 10 half-centuries with an average of around 29. Four of the team's top five batters?Rohit Sharma, Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, and Ajinkya Rahane?will retain their places in the lineup for the two Test matches in Dominica and Trinidad, while Cheteshwar Pujara's position is up in the air.



Yashasvi Jaiswal has been the buzz in the town ever since he amassed 625 runs with a strike rate of 164 during the IPL 2023. These numbers are indeed amazing, but they only tell part of the tale.



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Yashasvi Jaiswal had a spectacular season, even when using traditional principles. He was the leader for the Rajasthan Royals in terms of runs (625), average (48.08), fifty-plus scores (six), fours (82), sixes (26), and also the only centurion of the team.



These are IPL numbers, but if we look at his first-class numbers, they are even more impressive. In a total of 26 innings, he has scored 1845 runs with an average of 80.21 and 9 centuries and 2 half centuries. His strike rate also remains around 70 and his highest score is 265.



READ: <a href="https://www.icccricketschedule.com/wtc-2023-25-schedule-indias-full-schedule-match-list-world-test-championship/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">WTC 2023-25 Schedule: India?s Full Schedule, Match List | World Test Championship</a>



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Yashasvi Jaiswal To Replace Pujara In Test: Cricbuzz Reports

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35-year-old Cheteshwar Pujara, who was not selected in India's Test squad for the 2-match Freedom Test Series against South Africa, has scored a double century for his domestic team, Saurashtra, in their very first match of the Ranji Trophy 2024. Pujara, who was dropped from the test team due to his poor performance in the 2023 WTC final against Australia, has played a brilliant not-out innings of 243 runs in 356 balls against Jharkhand on day 3 of the ongoing Ranji Trophy 2024 group stage match, which is taking place at the Saurashtra Cricket Association Stadium in Rajkot.



Pujara?s double century has come at the right time because the Ajit Agarkar-led Indian Selection Committee is expected to announce the Men in Blue's squad for the first two Test matches of the upcoming 5-match Test Series against England today (January 7). Thanks to his brilliant knock of 243 runs, the 35-year-old might make a comeback to the Indian Test squad because Shubman Gill struggled to score runs against the Seamers of South Africa at number 3, and with the 5-match Test Series against England starting on January 25, the selectors might consider adding the experience of Cheteshwar Pujara to the Indian batting lineup.



Pujara, who remained out, faced a total of 356 balls and scored 30 fours in his knock of 243 runs. He completed his double century on the very first ball of the 144th over of the Saurashtra first innings, and it was his 17th double ton in first-class cricket and his eighth double hundred in the Ranji Trophy.



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Pujara has scored the same number of first-class double hundreds as Herbert Sutcliffe and Mark Ramprakash (17 first-class double centuries), and he is only behind Don Bradman (37), Wally Hammond (36) and Patsy Hendren (22) in the list of batters with the most first-class double tons. Pujara's eighth double-hundred in the Ranji Trophy has made him the batter with the second-most double centuries in the history of the Ranji Trophy, behind only Paras Dogra's nine double tons.



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England will take on India in a 5-match Test Series that starts on January 25 in Hyderabad. The second test match will take place in Visakhapatnam from February 2?6, while the third test will take place at the Saurashtra Cricket Association Stadium in Rajkot from February 16?20. The 4th test match will be played at MS Dhoni's hometown, Ranchi, on the 23rd of February, and the 5th and final test match will take place in Dharamshala on the 7th of March.



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Ben Stokes (captain), Jonny Bairstow (WK), James Anderson, Rehan Ahmed, Gus Atkinson, Harry Brook, Zak Crawley, Ben Duckett, Shoaib Bashir, Tom Hartley, Ben Foakes (WK), Ollie Pope, Jack Leach, Joe Root, Mark Wood, and Ollie Robinson.



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