There was a lot of discussion about Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma in the ongoing edition of Vijay Hazare Trophy, Rohit scored 135 runs in the first match. Kohli scored a century in the first match and a half-century in the second. There is news that Kohli can play one more match. Here we are talking about Dhruv Jurel, who is playing for Uttar Pradesh, his bat has also done well in the tournament so far.

Dhruv Jurel is playing for Uttar Pradesh. The wicketkeeper batsman played a brilliant inning of 160 runs in the team’s third match today. In this innings played in 101 balls, Dhruv hit 8 sixes and 15 fours. Batting first, UP scored a huge score of 369 runs with the help of Jurel’s brilliant innings. In reply, Baroda team was all out for 315 runs. UP won the match by 54 runs.

Dhruv Jurel in VHT 2025-26

24-year-old Dhruv Jurel is the second highest run-scorer in the Vijay Hazare Trophy. Jurel had scored 80 runs in the first match against Hyderabad. In the second match against Chandigarh, Jurel had played an inning of 67 runs. In the third match, he scored the first century of this edition. He has scored 307 runs in 3 matches. Jurel has hit 12 sixes and 30 fours in the tournament so far.

top run scorer

Vidarbha team’s batsman Aman Ravindra Mokhade is currently the highest run-scorer in Vijay Hazare Trophy 2025-26. He has scored 331 runs in 3 innings, his highest score is 139. Aman has so far scored 2 centuries and 1 half-century.

Top-10 run scorers in Vijay Hazare Trophy 2025-26

• Aman Mokhade (Vidarbha)- 331
• Dhruv Jurel (Uttar Pradesh)- 307
• Devdutt Padikkal (Karnataka)- 293
• Pukhraj Maan (Himachal Pradesh) – 284
• Lalit Yadav (Goa)- 278
• Ravi Singh (Railway)- 273
• Dhruv Shorey (Vidarbha) – 266
• Samar Gujjar (Saurashtra)- 256
• Aryan Juyal (Uttar Pradesh)- 240

All the teams have played 3-3 matches in Vijay Hazare Trophy 2025-26. There are 5 batsmen who have scored 2 centuries. Apart from Aman Mokhade, Padikkal, Pukhraj, Lalit Yadav and Dhruv Shorey have scored 2 centuries.

India vs South Africa test series starts from 14th November. The first test match will be played at Eden Gardens, Kolkata from 14th November. Before that, preparing the best playing eleven has become a headache-inducing task for the team management. Especially the wicketkeeper’s slot is causing great concern. Test team vice-captain Rishabh Pant will be returning from injury, on the other hand, Jurel has also staked claim for a place in the playing eleven by scoring centuries in both the innings of the second unofficial Test match against South Africa A.

Dhruv Jurel has also increased the concern of Team India management because not only against South Africa A, but before that he had also played a century in the first test match against West Indies. Meanwhile, former Indian cricketer Aakash Chopra has talked about giving place to both Rishabh Pant and Dhruv Jurel in the playing eleven in the first test.

Give a chance to both Pant-Jurel…

Aakash Chopra said through his YouTube channel, “Rishabh Pant and Dhruv Jurel, both are in the squad. Rishabh is the vice-captain, so he will play. He will play and he should play. I believe that Dhruv Jurel should also get a chance. There should be a place for him in the playing eleven too. The question will be whether you will remove Sai Sudarshan from the top order or Nitish Kumar Reddy from the lower order.”

oust Nitish

Aakash Chopra further said that Sai Sudarshan should remain at number-3, but Nitish Kumar Reddy has not shown anything special by coming to his place. Chopra said that Nitish could be ousted, which would free up space for Dhruv Jurel.

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Dhruv Jurael has scored the first century of his Test career. He did this at the first Test (Ind vs Wi Live) against the West Indies being played in Ahmedabad. He completed the century in 190 balls, in which he hit 12 fours and 2 sixes. Jurael has become a total of 12th Indian wicketkeeper batsman to score a century in Test cricket history. At the same time, it was the third century in the year 2025 by Indian wicketkeepers. Prior to him, Rishabh Pant has scored 2 centuries this year.

5th Indian wicketkeeper who does so

Dhruv Jurlel is the fifth Indian wicketkeeper batsman to score his Test debut against the West Indies. Before him, Vijay Manjrekar, Farooq Engineer, Ajay Ratra and Wriddhiman Saha have done this. His first century has come in the 9th innings of Test career and before that he was able to score only one fifty. Prior to this century, Jurael’s highest score in Test was 90 runs, which he scored against England in 2024.

Dhruv Jurael has scored this century while batting at the fifth order and he was able to find a place in the playing XI because Rishabh Pant is still injured. It is also worth noting that the number-3 batsman’s slot in the Indian Test team is still empty, because Sai Sudarshan is continuously flopping. With this century innings, somewhere Jurael must have warned Sudarshan.

When we look at Dhruv Jurael’s Test career, he made his debut against England last year. Before the first Test match against the West Indies, he scored 255 runs in 8 innings. His Test figures were nothing special, but with a century against the West Indies, he has claimed to have confirmed a place in Team India.

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