Bengaluru, Aug. 24 -- There are some cricketers who thrill you, and there are some who steady you. Cheteshwar Pujara belonged firmly to the second kind - the quiet warrior, the man who didn't roar but endured, who didn't dazzle but defied.
On Sunday, when he announced his retirement from Indian cricket, it wasn't just the end of a career. It was the fading away of a certain philosophy of batting.
For over a decade, India's No. 3 was not about glamour, but about grit. Pujara walked in when the shine was fresh and the bowlers were hungry. He walked in when India needed a wall, not a firecracker. And more often than not, he gave them exactly that.
"We remember the centuries in Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney - 2018-19, when India made history i...