Dhruv Jurel: Hawaldar Father Took Loan Of Rs 800 To Buy His First Bat, Mother Sold Jewellery For His Kit; UP Cricketer Got India Call-Up For England Tests

Dhruv Jurel, wicketkeeper and batter from Uttar Pradesh, will quickly board a flight to Hyderabad. In that flight, he could have the likes of Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Jasprit Bumrah, KL Rahul and different sitting alongside facet him. This is not any regular flight. The aircraft doesn’t simply take him from one place to a different in fast time, it should additionally take him to 1 step nearer to his dream, which is already half realised. Dhruv was named because the third wicketkeeping choice in India’s Test squad for England at dwelling. This was a dream come true for the 22-year-old.

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When he was very younger, he had lied to his father that he was going for simply swimming lessons in his faculty. When father learnt that he had additionally enrolled for cricket teaching, he had acquired indignant phrases from his dad, who was a hawaldar in Indian Army. But the daddy quickly realised that his son was passionate concerning the sport and allowed him to pursie his dream. When Dhruv needed a bat, his father organized for Rs 800 from his mates to get that for him. 

Coming from a humble background the place funds have been a giant difficulty, Dhruv hated to see his father salute others. He labored exhausting on his cricket to make sure his father doesn’t should salute anybody someday. Dhruv has managed to do this. 

Initially, his father needed him to deal with getting a authorities job and had requested Dhruv to cease pursuing cricket. But the son had made up his thoughts. His father was helpless attributable to monetary issues at dwelling. Once when Dhruv aksed his father to purchase him a cricket package, the want was refused. “I told my father that the kit will cost around Rs 8,000 and he was shocked after hearing the price and asked me to stop playing cricket,” Dhruv informed Dainik Jagran. It was then that his mom organized the cash for his first correct cricket package. The cash got here from promoting off a chunk of jewelry. The gold chain was bought off however at present, it appears it was all price it. 

Dhruv has performed U-14 and U-16 age group cricket for UP. He was then chosen for India U-19 workforce for the World Cup in 2020. Dhruv made his Ranji Trophy debut for Uttar Pradesh in 2022 in opposition to Vidarbha and thus far he has performed 15 first-class matches, scoring 790 runs together with 100 and 5 half-centuries. His greatest rating is 249 runs.Dhruv has additionally performed 10 List-A and 23 T20 matches. 

He was picked by Rajasthan Royals (RR) for a sum of Rs 20 lakhs in IPL 2022 mega aution however made his debut solely in IPL 2023. Dhruv has performed 13 IPL matches thus far, scoring 152 runs at strike fee of 172.72 and has been retained by RR for IPL 2024.

Thanks to his good present in first-class cricket, Dhruv acquired a call-up from India A because the workforce went on a tour of South Africa. Dhruv stroked a 69 in one of many four-day matches and took 3 catches as nicely. The selectors determined to offer the younger man a go within the dwelling collection vs Egland. He might not turn out to be the first-choice keeper within the first 2 Tests however the expertise of being within the senior Indian males’s dressing room shall be an enormous one for this Agra-born, right-handed batter.

An MS Dhoni fan, Dhruv hopes to comply with the footsteps of his idol and turn out to be as profitable a cricket, if no more, than the legend from Ranchi.