After his match-winning performance in the fourth Test against England, India’s wicketkeeper-batsman Dhruv Jurel became Team India’s star player overnight. became. Dhruv played a brilliant inning of 90 runs in the first innings and then scored 39* in the second innings to help India chase the target of 192 runs.
Along with his batting, Jurel performed brilliantly behind the wicket as well and took some brilliant catches. He also helped the captain a lot in taking DRS calls. Meanwhile, Dhruv’s match awareness helped India get the wicket of Ollie Pope in the fifth Test in Dharamsala.
On the second ball of the 26th over, Dhruv predicted Ollie Pope to step out of the crease and asked Kuldeep Yadav to keep his length back. He had told bowler Kuldeep Yadav just before the ball that the batsman would move forward and that is exactly what happened. Kuldeep also sensed that batsman Ollie Pope would move ahead so he bowled a good ball ahead of him. Ollie Pope got caught in this trap and Dhruv Jurel got him out.
Kuldeep sends Pope packing with a Jaffa 🤯🤌
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During this, Harsha Bhogle, who was commenting, told how Dhruv Jurel had already told Kuldeep that it will progress further… it will progress further… Kuldeep also understood that Ollie Pope can do this, because the last few balls of the first session were played. There was still time left and they wanted to return unbeaten, but it did not happen.
Thanks to the brains of Dhruv Jurel and clever bowling by Kuldeep Yadav, India made a comeback after the first session. Let us tell you that till lunch the score of the England team was 100/2 and the England team lost a total of 8 wickets till the tea break and the entire team was all out after scoring 218 runs after the lunch break.