Will Dhruv Jurel Replace Rishabh Pant For Sydney Test: The five-match Test series being played between India and Australia has now reached its final stage. Now the fifth Test match of Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2024-25 is to be played from January 3. The fifth test match is to be played at the Sydney Cricket Ground from January 3 to January 7. By winning this test match, the Indian team would like to draw the Border-Gavaskar Trophy. But Rishabh Pant’s meaningless shots are increasing the problems for Team India. In such a situation, now news is coming that Pant can be dropped from Sydney Test. Dhruv Jurel may get a chance in place of Rishabh Pant.
Rishabh Pant’s performance was disappointing
Rishabh Pant made many mistakes in the Melbourne Test. When the team needed to play cautiously, he played a risky shot on the ball of Nathan Lyon and was caught by Mitchell Marsh. After this, the Indian team was reduced to 155 runs from 121/3 and lost the match by 184 runs. Pant’s performance has forced the team management to rethink their playing 11 before the 5th Test.
Will Dhruv Jurel get a chance?
After the disappointing performance of Rishabh Pant, the name of young wicketkeeper batsman Dhruv Jurel is in the news. Jurel performed brilliantly in the matches played between India A and Australia A. He played two important innings of 80 and 68 runs in Melbourne. Apart from this, he also proved his importance by scoring 93 runs in Irani Trophy.
Dhruv Jurel’s first class record also looks better than Pant’s. He has scored 1235 runs in 22 matches at an average of 45.74. Jurel has scored 202 runs for the Indian team in 6 innings at an average of 40.40. This also includes a half-century. However, compared to the aggression of Rishabh Pant, Jurel is considered more capable of providing stability to the team.
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