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Star wicketkeeper-batter Dhruv Jurel is all set to feature in India’s Test XI against South Africa, alongside Rishabh Pant, with Nitish Kumar Reddy losing out on a spot, after the former scoring truckloads of runs over the last one and a half months, according to a report in PTI.

Jurel had kept wickets in India’s last three Tests, at The Oval, Ahmedabad and Delhi, while Pant was sidelined with an ankle fracture. However, the latter’s return has now made the playing XI selection a tricky call ahead of the first Test in Kolkata, less than a week away.

Since the start of the home season, Jurel’s scores read 140, 1 & 56, 125, 44 & 6, 132 & 127*. With three hundreds, including a Test century, plus a half-century and a 40-plus innings in his last eight first-class kn

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