Former Australia captain Tim Paine has praised India’s young wicketkeeper-batsman Dhruv Jurel. Let us tell you that Dhruv Jurel had scored half-centuries in both the innings of the second unofficial match between India A vs Australia A played at Melbourne Cricket Ground. Although the best players failed to make their team win the match.

Dhruv Jurel made his international debut for Team India in the five-match Test series against England this year. He did very good batting and wicketkeeping in this series. Dhruv Jurel had scored 190 runs in four innings at an average of 63.33. Not only this, in the first innings of the second unofficial Test match against Australia A played last week, Dhruv scored 80 runs while in the second innings he contributed 68 runs.

Now Dhruv Jurel can also be seen performing tremendously against Australia in the upcoming Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2024-25. The first test match between these two teams is starting from 22nd November in Perth. According to Tim Paine, Dhruv Jurel can prove to be a very important player for Team India against Australia.

Speaking to SEN Tassie, the former Australia captain said, ‘There is a player who has kept wickets for Team India in Tests. Dhruv Jurel has scored runs at an average above 63 in three Tests. He has batted well in the Test format so far and his wicket-keeping has also been excellent. I would be quite surprised if Dhruv Jurel does not get a chance to play in the upcoming Test series against Australia.

Tim Paine praised Dhruv Jurel fiercely

Tim Paine further said, ‘He is still only 23 years old. There are many players of Team India in this tour who have a better class than Dhruv Jurel. There are many players of Team India who will face a lot of difficulty in playing in our conditions but Jurel is not going to face any problem. Team India’s batsmen were seen facing a lot of trouble at the Melbourne Cricket Ground but Dhruv Jurel batted excellently on the bouncy pitch.

Let us tell you that, if Team India has to secure its place in the final of the World Test Championship, then they will have to win the match against Australia by a long margin.