While the Indian Test specialist cricketer Cheteshwar Pujara was playing an incredible Test innings of 193 runs in the ongoing Sydney Test, his father-cum-coach Arvind Pujara missed that due to he was in the hospital.
According to the recent report of Indian Express, when Pujara was batting on the day one of the Sydney Test, Arvind had to fly out from Rajkot to Mumbai after having a complaint of abnormal high heart rate.
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Arvind was rushed to the Holy Family Hospital in Bandra where he had a cardiac catheterisation to normalize the heart rate. Though he missed most of the moments of that incredible innings, he would soon watch the replays.
The 68-year-old Arvind said, “I have been hearing people praise my son from across the world. It’s very heartening, if anybody had any doubt about his batting it’s all cleared. I will go home watch the replays.”
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Cheteshwar’s wife Puja was always with her father-in-law Arvind.
Talking about that experience, Puja said, “On Day 1 of the Test we had watched him grind it out in the first session at our home at Rajkot. After that we had a flight to catch, once we landed we came to know that he was approaching his 100. That’s when he was smashing the balls and hitting fours. That bit we followed on my phone.”
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Cheteshwar Pujara has been informed about this and he is regular in touch to know his father’s condition.
Arvind said on that, “Our doctor had called him and told him that it wasn’t wise to delay the procedure. They had a long chat, and once he was convinced we went ahead.”
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Their family doctor, Dr Nirbhay Shah also spoke about the tough time with Arvind since the last month.
Shah said, “He had two episodes of severe rise in heart rate. Once while Cheteshwar was here and once again while he was in Australia. Initially, we did not inform him as he was playing at Melbourne. We informed him after the match and took his consent for surgery. His century today was under the cloud of his dad and coach being subjected to surgery. His focus never wavered and his work ethic did not suffer.”
