Watch: Cheteshwar Pujara reacts as India batters fail to impress against Bangladesh

As India's top and middle-order struggled to impress against Bangladesh in the ongoing first Test, out-of-favour batsman Cheteshwar Pujara has posted a cryptic message.

India are currently busy playing the Test against Bangladesh at the MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai. After Bangladesh won the toss and opted to bowl first, India's batsmen failed to give the team a good start. The hosts lost as many as three big wickets inside the first session.

Hasan Mahmud claimed all three wickets, dismissing Rohit Sharma (6), Shubman Gill (0) and Virat Kohli (6) cheaply to put Bangladesh in the driver's seat. Yashasvi Jaiswal (56) and Rishabh Pant (39) stopped the rot for a while but could not bat India to a position of strength as India found themselves six down for 144 at one stage.

With India's batsmen failing to impress on day one of the Test, Cheteshwar Pujara made sure to make his presence felt with a post on X (formerly Twitter). The veteran batsman took to the social media platform to post a video of himself training in the nets. He captioned the video, "Never stand still."

Here is the post from Cheteshwar Pujara:

Never stand still!🏏 pic.twitter.com/Lxax3uRJML

— Cheteshwar Pujara (@cheteshwar1) September 19, 2024

Cheteshwar Pujara has not played for Team India since 2023. His last Test appearance came in the World Test Championship final against Australia in June last year. Since he was dropped from the Test team, Gill has been batting at the third spot.

Pujara recently plied his trade for Sussex in the County Championship and impressed with the bat. He scored 501 runs in six games at an average of more than 60. The right-handed batsman also hit two centuries and a fifty.

Team India recover:

Talking about the game, Team India went on to recover after the poor start and finished the day in a commanding position. After being reduced to 144 for 6, India did not lose any more wickets in the day. The architects of the recovery were Ravichandran Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja.

Ashwin and Jadeja have shared an unbeaten stand of 195 runs as India ended the day on 339/6. Ashwin was unbeaten on 102 while Jadeja was batting on 86 at the time of stumps.