{"id":565560,"date":"2025-11-12T12:27:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T12:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/565560\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T12:27:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T12:27:12","slug":"revealed-dhruv-jurel-to-play-eden-test-vs-south-africa-ryan-ten-doeschate-confirms-indias-combination-cricket-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/565560\/","title":{"rendered":"Revealed! Dhruv Jurel to play Eden Test vs South Africa &#8211; Ryan ten Doeschate confirms India&#8217;s combination | Cricket News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/dhruv-jurel.jpg\" alt=\"Revealed! Dhruv Jurel to play Eden Test vs South Africa - Ryan ten Doeschate confirms India's combination\" title=\"Dhruv Jurel (PTI Photo) \" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/> NEW DELHI: India assistant coach Ryan ten Doeschate on Wednesday confirmed that in-form wicketkeeper-batter Dhruv Jurel will feature in the playing XI for the opening Test against South Africa at Eden Gardens, beginning Friday. The 24-year-old, who has been in stellar touch with the bat, has forced his way into the lineup, while young all-rounder Nitish Kumar Reddy is likely to miss out.Go Beyond The Boundary with our YouTube channel. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@toisports\" rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" target=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">SUBSCRIBE NOW!<\/a>\u201cI think we\u2019ve got a pretty good idea of the combination,\u201d ten Doeschate said at the pre-match press conference. \u201cGiven the way Dhruv has gone in the last six months and scoring two hundreds in Bengaluru last week, he is certain to play this week.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Shubman Gill: Carrying Indian cricket on his shoulders at 25<\/p>\n<p>There had been speculation about Jurel\u2019s place following Rishabh Pant\u2019s return to the side after recovering from a fractured foot. However, the management has opted to retain both wicketkeeper-batters in the XI \u2014 with Jurel likely to play primarily as a specialist batter.Jurel smashed consecutive centuries (132 and 127) for India A against South Africa A last week. His remarkable consistency \u2014 with three centuries, one fifty, and one score above 40 in his last eight first-class innings \u2014 made his selection hard to ignore.<\/p>\n<p>Poll<\/p>\n<p>Will the combination of Jurel and Pant strengthen India&#8217;s batting lineup?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think you can leave him out for this Test, that\u2019s the short answer,\u201d ten Doeschate said. \u201cObviously, you can only pick 11, so someone else will have to miss out. But I\u2019d be very surprised if you don\u2019t see Dhruv and Rishabh both playing this week.\u201dOn Nitish Kumar Reddy\u2019s exclusion, the assistant coach said it was a strategic decision based on the conditions.\u201cThe primary thing is to set out a strategy to win the game. Nitish didn\u2019t get much game time in Australia, and given the importance of this series and the conditions we expect, he might miss out this week,\u201d he added.With the Eden Gardens Test marking the start of a high-stakes series against the World Test Champions, India appear set to field a strong, flexible lineup \u2014 one that blends the youth of Jurel with the experience of Pant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW DELHI: India assistant coach Ryan ten Doeschate on Wednesday confirmed that in-form wicketkeeper-batter Dhruv Jurel will feature&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":565561,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4101],"tags":[1406,179906,179907,173559,16397,179909,179905,176737,179908,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-565560","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-cricket","9":"tag-dhruv-jurel-playing-xi","10":"tag-eden-gardens-test-match","11":"tag-india-a-vs-south-africa-a","12":"tag-india-cricket-team","13":"tag-india-test-team-announcement","14":"tag-india-vs-south-africa-test-series","15":"tag-rishabh-pant-return","16":"tag-ryan-ten-doeschate-comments","17":"tag-sports","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115536727323844042","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=565560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565560\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/565561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=565560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=565560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=565560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}