Former India opener Aakash Chopra has raised questions over Dhruv Jurel’s selection in the squad for the first two Tests against England. Jurel got his maiden call-up after an impressive show in domestic cricket and India A matches in recent times.
However, the wait for Sarfaraz Khan to get a maiden India call-up continues which unimpressed Chopra as he asked how much the Mumbai batter needs to do to get the selectors’ attention.
“Dhruv Jurel hasn’t played a lot of first-class cricket. He has played 15 matches only and scored a total of 790 runs in 19 innings. Of course, there is a highest score of nearly 250. 46.50 is not a bad average. He has scored one century and five fifties,” Chopra said on his YouTube channel.
“If you see it that way, you will say is that enough to be called for Test cricket? If this is enough, what should Sarfaraz do? What more can he do? Have we decided that Ishan Kishan won’t be considered until he goes back to first-class cricket and scores runs?”
India picked three wicketkeepers in the squad for the first two Tests as KL Rahul and KS Bharat retained their places from the South Africa tour.
Dhruv made his first-class debut in 2022 for Uttar Pradesh and became a mainstay in the domestic side. He also got picked up for India A team for matches against South Africa A and England Lions.
On the other hand, Sarfaraz has been waiting for his chance for a long time now as he has been scoring a plethora of runs for Mumbai in the past couple of years but continued to get ignored.
The former cricketer turned commentator also suggested that KL Rahul might not keep the wickets in the Test series on the turning tracks.
“Dhruv Jurel is an interesting choice. Firstly, I don’t see him playing. KL Rahul might not play as a keeper. That’s also a possibility because you might not want to play KL Rahul as a keeper in these conditions. Catches were dropped in South Africa as well. Anyone can drop catches, but if you are playing Ashwin, Jadeja and Axar, and trying to make dustbowl-type pitches, you won’t get Rahul to keep,” he added.
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