Dhruv Jurel , the wicketkeeper-batter, is now a regular in India 's Test squad. But before India A 's ongoing four-day series against Australia A, he had only one first-class century to his name, that too from December 2022, when he scored 249 against Nagaland. And - guess what? - the lack of really big scores doesn't even bother him.

"Honestly, earlier it did matter to me whether my score was 100 or 150. But now I understand that the team's victory is more important," Jurel said after scoring 140 in 197 balls in India A's only innings in the drawn first game in Lucknow. "In first-class cricket, I have seven-eight (he has four) scores in the 90s, which could have been centuries.

"One of them was in the Ranchi Test [against England in February 2024], where I became Player of the

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