India, April 30 -- Cheteshwar Pujara was no stranger to being a casualty in the Indian XI despite being one of its finest Test batters in the last decade and a half. Sometimes for strike rate in the West Indies, sometimes after a few low scores in England, Pujara has always bore the brunt. But Pujara really got shaken when the chatter about dropping him during the 2018-19 Australia tour came to the fore. A man of few words, Pujara, when persuaded by his wife, Puja, could not hold back. The veteran batter, narrated how he overheard talks of dropping him from the Melbourne Test.

Puja Pujara revealed the details in her book, 'The Diary of a Cricketer's Wife'. Puja wrote that her husband, who had scored a century and a half-century in the fi...