In the second unofficial Test match against Australia-A in Melbourne, Dhruv Jurel played an important role in taking India-A to 161 runs in the first innings. Apart from Dhruv Jurel, the rest of the batsmen were struggling.
Jural played a brilliant innings of 80 runs off 186 balls. By hitting six boundaries and two sixes in his innings, Jurel revived the team’s hopes of victory after India-A’s team flopped in the top order.
Let us tell you that BCCI included Jurel and KL Rahul in the India-A team because they wanted to get some match practice before the Test match of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy.
Dhruv won everyone’s heart by playing a brilliant innings with the bat, but KL Rahul flopped with the bat.
Michael Naser destroyed the batting order of the India-A team by taking 4 wickets
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Jurel Saves the Day Amidst Early Collapse
In fact, despite being included in the Test squad between India and New Zealand, 23-year-old Dhruv Jurel did not get a chance to play. Due to this, BCCI sent him on the Australia tour with Rahul. Dhruv had shown a great game against England earlier this year. He saved India by performing similarly in the Ranchi Test. At the same time, in the second unofficial Test match of India-A vs Australia-A being played on Thursday, he handled India’s innings in difficult times.
After losing the toss, Team India, who came to bat first, had a bad start. India-A team lost five wickets on a score of 64 runs. Two wickets of the team fell at zero. Openers Abhimanyu Easwaran and Sai Sudarshan were out without opening the account.
Michael Nisar took wickets on the third and fourth balls of the first over. KL Rahul and captain Ruturaj Gaikwad were dismissed after scoring 4-4 runs. Kangaroo team’s fast bowler Michael showed Abhimanyu, Sai, and Ruturaj the way to the pavilion.
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Australia-A Ends Day 1 at 53/2
The Australia-A team has lost 2 wickets for 53 runs by the time of stumps on the first day. Nathan’s batting was not good as Mukesh Kumar dismissed him for just 14 runs. Then Khalil Ahmed also dismissed Cameron after scoring 3 runs in 22 balls.
At the end of stumps on the first day, the host team is at 53/2. Now the Indian bowlers would like to take wickets as quickly as possible on the second day and not let Australia go below 161 runs or with a margin of 20 or 30 runs.
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