Dhruv Jurel News

Sarfaraz Khan's unorthodox fielding style left Virat Kohli, Rishabh Pant and Dhruv Jurel in splits during Indian cricket team's practice session ahead of the first Test match against Australia in Perth.

Team India has to find replacements for Rohit Sharma and Shubman Gill for the first Test against Australia in Perth.

The likes of Yashaswi Jaiswal, Dhruv Jurel, Abhimanyu Easwaran, Sarfaraz Khan, Nitish Reddy, Harshit Rana, Akash Deep and Prasidh Krishna are all on their maiden tours to Australia.

Former Australia skipper Tim Paine has backed young wicketkeeper-batter Dhruv Jurel and believes that the latter could be very useful to the Indian side in the upcoming Border-Gavaskar Trophy

Dhruv Jurel proved to be India's crisis man in the second game against Australia A in Melbourne, scoring 80 and 68 coming on the crease at 11/4 in the first innings and 44/4 in the second.

With this defeat, India A lost the two-match series 0-2, as the visitors had earlier lost the first unofficial Test

Dhruv Jurel has surpassed KL Rahul in the race for playing XI selection for the India vs Australia Perth Test.

Dhruv Jurel and Nitish Reddy ended the day unbeaten, with India at 73-5 and leading by only 11 runs.

In the first unofficial Test, the India A players had to deal with ball tampering allegations.

Dhruv Jurel stood out with a sensational 80, scoring nearly half of India A's total vs Australia A.