Dhruv Jurel, the 22-year-old wicketkeeper batter from Uttar Pradesh grew to become the most recent Indian batter to get a call-up to the Test crew as he was chosen for the primary two matches towards England because the third wicketkeeping choice alongside KL Rahul and KS Bharat. Jurel, who has achieved effectively in Ranji Trophy for Uttar Pradesh and in different first-class video games for Rest of India and now India A, has been on the radar however lastly gotten an opportunity and is prone to make his debut given Rahul, reportedly was thought-about as a specialist batter for the collection.
Jurel, who had an excellent season in the IPL with the Rajasthan Royals scoring at a strike fee of 171 in the entire season, was benched for an entire season earlier than getting his alternatives final 12 months for the Men in Pink and the franchise coach and Director of Cricket Kumar Sangakkara could not be happier. Currently in South Africa overseeing the Royals’ sister franchise in SA20 in Paarl, Sangakkara could not hold his excitement seeing Jurel get a Test call-up for India whereas speaking about his qualities.
“Very proud and happy because one of our key motivators and one of our key kind of performance indicators away from the IPL is producing players for India and we have produced quite a lot over the years and Dhruv being a new addition,” Sangakkara advised studies after India’s squad announcement on Friday, January 12.
“He’s (Jurel) a improbable younger man, a extremely good participant who has labored actually onerous to get the place he has. And that the truth that he’s gone via our improvement camps and ended up in the Test facet is improbable,” former Sri Lanka captain additional stated.
When requested about what impressed him probably the most about Jurel, Sangakkara stated, “His work ethic, demeanour, understands pressure. He came in last season in one of the most difficult positions and scored so many runs for us. He’s an absolute match-winner in the short format. He’s always going to do well. He’s just that kind of player.”
Jurel simply smashed a 38-ball 50 towards England Lions to have a good time his call-up and with no Rishabh Pant in the facet nonetheless, the crew administration would possibly take a look at the right-hander for that particular function.
India’s Test squad for first two matches towards England: Rohit Sharma (c), Shubman Gill, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, KL Rahul (wk), KS Bharat (wk), Dhruv Jurel (wk), Ravichandran Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohammed Siraj, Mukesh Kumar, Jasprit Bumrah (vc), Avesh Khan
