- Open Magazine quoted Pujara’s father Arvind narrating how he had discovered his son’s potential. A two-and-a-half year old Pujara was once photographed while batting by one of Arvind’s nephews. Those photographs showed good balance. There was one photo where the young boy was playing a rising ball, and had his eyes firmly fixed onto it. Sensing that, Arvind initiated him into cricket.
- He was all rounder when he started playing cricket.
- When he was 12 year old he scored 306* for Saurashtra under-14 against Baroda under-14s.
- Pujara has six triple-centuries in his representative career.
- Pujara’s batting average is second to only Michael Bevan in List A cricket. Bevan tops the list with 57.86, with Pujara in second place at 54.01.
- Second fastest 1,000 test runs by Indian player.